By 2003 when the Workers Party won election and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, shortened to ‘Lula’, became the president, Brazil was a virtual write off. The IMF was running the show, dictating... Read more
The paradox of a former president such as Lula who took Brazil into global power status, including the symbolic gesture of offering the IMF a bailout, going to jail would probably take time... Read more
The book, The ‘Clash of Civilizations’ 25 Years On: A Multidisciplinary Appraisal has been published on twenty five years of about the most controversial and the most contested theory of con... Read more
Corruption trials appear to have seized the world this weekend, taking along with it former presidents in South Korea, South Africa and Brazil. Park Geun-hye, immediate past president of Sou... Read more
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana has formally explained what is involved in an expanded facility deal between the United States and Ghana. He has put it to peace in the ECOWAS sub-region a... Read more
Africa Confidential is a staple of the elite in Nigeria. In this April 6th, 2018 piece titled “Nigeria: Return of the Jagaban”, the magazine offers its own flavour to the struggle for power... Read more
Graca Machel, widow of Nelson Mandela has scripted an earth moving note to her departed co-wife of the icon, addressing the departed as her Big sister. The letter dated April 3rd, 2018 and w... Read more
What can voluntary organisations do for community development in the age of globalisation and by which paradigm might such be realised? This is the nut that Nigerian and potential members of... Read more
Might a strategy of turning corruption allegations into a weapon of electoral warfare have run its course in Nigeria? This appears an inviting puzzle in the aftermath of the stalemate that h... Read more
Indications from Pretoria are that the remains of Winnie Mandela will be committed to mother earth April 14th, 2011. So says Cyril Ramaphosa, South African president for whom this is describ... Read more
