Development Matrix
By Kole Shettima In this piece, Dr Shettima, Director of the MacArthur Foundation, argues the case for rethinking the reconstruction process in northeastern Nigeria where he asserts that eve... Read more
In the year 2014, it was a dialogue between about 50 African leaders with the United States. In 2017, it was a dialogue of put down by US-African leaders. How are the times and the actors ch... Read more
The electoral road to power will witness a crack traveler on the track soon should the South African Communist Party, (SACP) make good its threat to quit alliance with the African National C... Read more
Where would be the meeting point of two observable but contrasting claims on the future of the state in Africa? Would they meet at war or is it something that would be resolved by the dialec... Read more
In a move evocative of the controversy best captured by Jennifer Rubenstein’s “Why It is Beside the Point that No one Elected Oxfam”, MacArthur Foundation is spending a whopping sum of USD$9... Read more
This video below is enigmatic. When it landed for Intervention on June 29th, 2017, one initial response to our inquiry was that the event in the video took place in Addis Ababa the previous... Read more
This is a 2014 travelogue made relevant by the coming Continental Model African Union, a project which fate appears to have prepared Nigeria well ahead. This is in the sense that through th... Read more
The shape and contours of the model will only emerge from the brain workers gathering for the planning meeting in Addis Ababa from June 30th and July 2nd, 2017 but Afro-optimists across the... Read more
*China is doing good in Africa but Africa should not allow China to violate international labour laws by using prison labour *Africa is not heading for recolonisation but dependence *... Read more
*Poverty reduction is an indecent expression *No country in the world has developed without state Intervention in the economy *Africa has no alternative to the Lagos Plan of Action *If Chris... Read more
