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  • The Ghost of Deborah and the Lynch Mob
  • Updated: When Gem Tied the Nuptial Knots
  • Citizen Deborah And The Northern Crisis
  • NIIA Takes on Democratic Consolidation and Rising Coup Phenomenon in Africa
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War-Torn Central African Republic Follows El Savaldor, Adopts Bitcoin As National Currency

Posted By: adminon: May 10, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: CAR, CFA Franc, Cryptocurrencies, El Salvador, France, Ouattara-Macron strategyNo CommentsViews:
War-Torn Central African Republic Follows El Savaldor, Adopts Bitcoin As National Currency

By Yusuf Bangura (PhD) War-torn Central African Republic (CAR) has followed El Salvador by adopting bitcoin as legal tender for all transactions in the country. Strangely, this has been done... Read more

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Return to Samir Amin to Go Beyond Eurocentrism

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Decolonisation, Delinking, Eurocentrism, Global North, Global South, Karl Marx, Monopoly Capital, Orientalism, Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Prof Edward Said, Prof Samir Amin, Unequal Development, Unequal ExchangeNo CommentsViews:
Return to Samir Amin to Go Beyond Eurocentrism

“If you really want decolonization, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin”. So says the above piece whose author also insists on such a rigid d... Read more

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Did the CIA Set Up Immediate Post Independence African Writers, Especially Wole Soyinka?

Posted By: adminon: May 03, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Black Orpheus, Caroline Davis, Farfield Foundation, Juliana Spahr, Mbari Writers, poststructuralist theory, TransitionNo CommentsViews:
Did the CIA Set Up Immediate Post Independence African Writers, Especially Wole Soyinka?

The Central Intelligence Agency, (CIA) which serves as the external intelligence gathering institution of the United States of America can be a subject of dumb speculations, sometimes so dum... Read more

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Inflationary Impacts and Digital Connectivity

Posted By: adminon: May 03, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Equiano Sub-Sea Cable, Kenya, NIGERIA, Peace Cable, TogoNo CommentsViews:
Inflationary Impacts and Digital Connectivity

Although not a formal piece, this crisp portrait turns out an organised insight into what is happening to all of us, partly as a result of war in Ukraine and partly arising from the structur... Read more

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What Has It Got to Do With the Nigeria Labour Movement That, 25 Years On, It’s Clearer Than Ever That ‘New Labour’ Failed?

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Brexit, Corbynism, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, New Labour, Tony BlairNo CommentsViews:
What Has It Got to Do With the Nigeria Labour Movement That, 25 Years On, It’s Clearer Than Ever That ‘New Labour’ Failed?

New Labour was a formidable political project—but it never won real power. So says this piece originally published by Prospect Magazine under the title Twenty-five Years On, It’s Clearer Tha... Read more

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‘Journey of an African Colony’

Posted By: adminon: April 29, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Aba Women’s Strike, Abeokuta Women’s Strike, ABU Zaria, Enugu Coal Miners’ Strike, Olasupo Shasore, Prof Joseph Inikori, Transatlantic Slave TradeNo CommentsViews:
‘Journey of an African Colony’

By Yusuf Bangura, PhD I’ve finished watching the seven part series ‘Journey of an African Colony’. Olasupo Shasore, the producer and narrator, did a great job considering that he’s a lawyer,... Read more

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PhD Students, Not Professors, Conduct the Most Innovative Researches – Prof Mahmood Mamdani

Posted By: adminon: April 10, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Herbert Lehman Professor of Government @ Columbia University, Makerere University - Uganda, South Africa in 1994No CommentsViews:
PhD Students, Not Professors, Conduct the Most Innovative Researches – Prof Mahmood Mamdani

In this interview originally published as Mamdani talks about his research legacy and work at Makerere, notable scholar of African politics, Prof Mahmood Mamdani looks back at his tenure at... Read more

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Carnegie Foundation Appoints Dr. Gilles Yabi as Fellow for Africa Program

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Carnegie Foundation, International Crisis Group, Jeune Afrique, RFI, WATHI, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
Carnegie Foundation Appoints Dr. Gilles Yabi as Fellow for Africa Program

The Africa program of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace has announced the addition of Dr. Gilles Yabi to the program. A statement to that effect by Zainab Usman, Director and S... Read more

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No, Angelique Kidjo’s ‘Mother Nature’ Cannot Beat Her ‘Agolo’

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: 'Agolo', CNN, Queen of the Grammies, ‘Mother Nature’, “Made in Lagos”No CommentsViews:
No, Angelique Kidjo's 'Mother Nature' Cannot Beat Her 'Agolo'

There has been a lone but significant protest at Intervention‘s wonderment if Angelique Kidjo’s Grammy award winning ‘Mother Nature’ could upstage her ageless number,... Read more

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Angelique Kidjo Does It Again, Grabs Grammy’s Best Global Music Category Award

Posted By: adminon: April 04, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: 'Agolo', CNN, Queen of the Grammies, ‘Mother Nature’, “Made in Lagos”No CommentsViews:
Angelique Kidjo Does It Again, Grabs Grammy's Best Global Music Category Award

This is her fifth Grammy win, this time with her ‘Mother Nature’ album. ‘Mother Nature’ is a typical Angélique Kidjo outing: no narrative of victimhood, no crying over colonialism but always... Read more

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