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An Open Letter to the Tor Tiv

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Cameroon, Christianity, Colonial rule, Middle Benue Valley, Swem, Tiv civilisation, TivlandNo CommentsViews:

By Terngu Sylvanus Nomishan Your Royal Majesty, the Tor Tiv, Orchivirigh Professor James Iorzua Ayatse, I humbly pen this heartfelt open letter, a solemn cry born from a place of profound di... Read more

At the Bingham University’s International Conference on Instability and Development Crisis in Africa

Posted By: adminon: March 09, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, Bingham University, Election Commission of India, INEC, Intervention, NIGERIA, TrustNo CommentsViews:

It was a great day for Political Science or, better still, for knowledge production in Nigeria; a big day for Bingham University, Karu, near Abuja for its uncommon boldness in the politics... Read more

Memories of Prof Richard Joseph’s Abuja Fish Joint Seminar

Posted By: adminon: February 16, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Abuja Review of Fish Joint Conversation, Africa, Cameroon, Diffarance, France, NIIA, Prebendalism, Republic of Nigeria, theoryNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It wasn’t a seminar. It was a social outing except that all the attendants have social science background. In fact, all but one of them are political scientists, invite... Read more

Thinking Africa As Sam Nujoma, the Last of That Generation, Goes Home

Posted By: adminon: February 09, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Cyril Ramaphosa, Mugabe, Namibia, Paul Kagame, Sam Nujoma, The CommonwealthNo CommentsViews:

The death Saturday night (08/02/25) of Sam Nujoma, the first president of independent Namibia in Southern Africa must have set Africa thinking. Incumbent Namibian President, Nangolo Mbumba h... Read more

Swem Must Be Preferred Over the Cross By the Tiv

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Ancestors, Benue State, Biblical teachings, Gboko, God, Swem, Tiv, Tor TivNo CommentsViews:

By Terngu Sylvanus Nomishan Three key themes: Tiv identity, Swem, and the Cross, form the foundation of this discourse. This discussion aims to highlight why the Tiv people must recognize th... Read more

Should Africa Fear Trump 2.0?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: 'Africa Rising', African actorness, BRICS, MAGA, Samuel HuntingtonNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Imagining Africa under Donald Trump as he took power today for another four years as president of the United States of America should be the most legitimate of all concerns.... Read more

What’s Gone Wrong with Nigeria’s Foreign Policy?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: AES, BRICS, Egypt, EthiopiaNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura Nigeria’s acceptance into the BRICS club as a *partner country* is a slap in the face for Nigerian leaders, the foreign policy establishment and citizens who believe that Ni... Read more

Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more

Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Afrobeat, Cashless economy, CBN, Fuji, Highlife, Idanre in Ondo State, POS, Poundo, Private industrialists, Smoked shrimps, The Wheat Trap, Village Market, Yar’Adua Conference CentreNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura I’ve been reflecting on three issues since we returned from a two-week trip to Nigeria three weeks ago. Before that visit, I had not been to Nigeria for 14 years. My last vi... Read more

Prof Cecil Blake @ 80 Symposium Promises a Counter-Hegemonic Articulation of Africa

Posted By: adminon: December 27, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Imaginative Geographies', African communication scholarship, Counter-hegemonic articulation of Africa, Deconstruction, Prof Cecil Blake, Prof Edward Said, Prof Umar Pate, TropesNo CommentsViews:

Rarely have African communication scholarship paid adequate attention to deconstruction of the tropes which constitute what Prof Edward Said calls ‘imaginative geographies’ and by which hege... Read more