‘Africa Rising’ is returning to the global public sphere. It has never really been a settled issue or ever off the debating agenda but this time, an African scholar of global tentacles has a... Read more
In what appears to the climax of a long encounter with authority, Zambian citizen, Mr Pilato was siezed and clamped into detention on arrival back in his own country from an activist trip to... Read more
Barely a week after 18 Nigerian civil society organisations trooped to the Ambassador of the Republic of Niger to Nigeria to protest the pre-emptive arrest and detention of 24 activists, ano... Read more
A mixed voice of co-operation, protest and contestation is coming over from Makurdi, the Benue State capital in Nigeria in the wake of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s on-going visit to the st... Read more
The saying that meaning is contextual has a very dramatic proof in Malaysia. Anwar Ibrahim was tried and jailed late 2000. He was deputy to the then Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Moh... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja A conception of reality in its contingent sense would always provide the basis for confidence in the coming of the Nigerian moment in history, notwithstanding what appears to... Read more
A loose collection of Nigerian civil society organisations, (CSOs) might have ignited a transnational advocacy dimension of activism in the West African sub-region by demanding the release f... Read more
Iran’s Nuclear Deal Was Doomed from the Start Unlike in part 1 of this series where both authors cautioned against the scrapping of the Iran nuclear deal by Donald Trump, the author of... Read more
By Yinka Adegoke There was an intriguing front page cover by the Angolan newspaper, Expansão, this week. It declared, “Every Angolan owes $745 to China”. It also listed debt to other countri... Read more
When President Donald Trump tore the negotiated Iran Nuclear deal last Tuesday by pulling out of it, what was he doing, what are the possible implications of his action and how might the wor... Read more
