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Ranka dade! Kole Shettima for Turbanning as ‘Zanna Yuroma’ of Machina Emirate

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: America, Europe, Kano, MacArthur, Machina, Middle East, Mohammed Abubakar Rimi, South East AsiaNo CommentsViews:

Come January 31st, 2026, Dr Kole Ahmed Shettima, Africa Director of MacArthur Foundation will add another feather to his cap. In addition to philanthropy administration, he will be turbaned... Read more

The Onoge Shock

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: ABU, African Literature, Chinua Achebe, Harvard, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Prof Abiola Irele, Prof Omafume Onoge, Prof Victor Adetula, UI, UNIBEN, UNIFE, UNIJOS, UNILAG, UNNNo CommentsViews:

I have heard a huge share of the stuff he was made of, including his articulation of the Aiyetoro community as a socialist entity in a thesis to Harvard University, at a time positivism was... Read more

As Biodun Jeyifo Turns 80

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 'Japa', Generational transition, Knowledge production, Literature, Political Science, Survival, The 'African condition'No CommentsViews:

Even as Nigeria turns more and more incomprehensible, an oasis is popping up somewhere in Lagos on January 5th, 2026. An oasis of ideas rather than the typical false events and celebration o... Read more

Scholars, Activists Take Another Look at ‘Fanon and the African Condition’ After a Hundred Years

Posted By: adminon: November 25, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African universities, ASUU, CDD, CITAD, CODESRIA, Fanon, Inter-generational conversation, UNIJOS, ‘African condition’No CommentsViews:

Some of Africa’s most established scholars are converging on Jos, the Plateau State capital, for the centenary of Frantz Fanon. The grand theme of the centenary is ‘Fanon and th... Read more

What Does the New VC of Stellenbosch University in South African Want?

Posted By: adminon: October 15, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Academia, Biomedical Research Institute, Cape Town, Deresh Ramiuquermath, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, HIV, National development Plan, Opinionista, Research, Stellenbosch, TBNo CommentsViews:

Stellenbosch University, one of the top three universities in South Africa, has a new Vice-Chancellor who has been speaking on his job. What exactly did he say in his Inaugural Speech on Oct... Read more

NPSA Set to Interrogate Democracy

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Liberal democracy, NPSA, Right-wing populismNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is set to re-examine the concept of democracy in the context of on-going worldwide interrogation of the concept. The re-engagement is planne... Read more

NPSA Set to Interrogate Democracy

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Liberal democracy, NPSA, Right-wing populismNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is set to re-examine the concept of democracy in the context of on-going worldwide interrogation of the concept. The re-engagement is planne... Read more

Botswana Ends America’s Decade-long Dominance in the 4×400 Men’s Relay

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Algerians, Botswana, Ethiopia, European or Saudi football clubs, Global sprinting, Kenya, Letsile Tebogo, Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith of Côte d’Ivoire, Moroccans, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, South African Zakithi Nene, Tanzanians, US anchor Rai BenjaminNo CommentsViews:

Botswana Ends America’s Decade-long Dominance in the 4x400 Men’s Relay

By Yusuf Bangura The 4×400 men’s relay was the most exhilarating event in the just-concluded World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Before the race started I was 100 percent convinced... Read more

Gov Sanwo-Olu to Speak on the Geopolitics of Lagos @ NIIA’s 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Distinguished Lecture series, LAGOS, Megacities, NIIA, Policy millNo CommentsViews:

Cities make capitalism possible. Although capitalism survives through what British Marxist geographer, David Harvey, calls the ‘spatial fix’ – a strategy of moving to new frontiers as soon a... Read more

Universities’ Alliance Can Stimulate Reparations Discourse

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African Union, African universities, African-Caribbean Dialogue on Justice through Reparations, Dark past, global injustices like slavery and imperialism, International Law, International reparations, Peter Kwasi Kodjie, University of ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

Might the reparation movement be moving to African campuses and become more rugged as is hinted in this piece from World Universities News? By Clemence Manyukwe African universities are dr... Read more