World From Africa | Intervention

CDD Holds 2026 Memorial Lecture for Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem and Abubakar Momoh

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: CDD, Democratic consolidation, Dr Tajudden Abdul-Raheem, Political parties, Prof Abubakar MomohNo CommentsViews:

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD- West Africa) is holding a lecture in memory of Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem and Professor Abubakar Momoh Memorial Lecture, two late Africa-minded s... Read more

The World Needs a Living Left: Voices From South African Conference

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: ANC, Left, Miriam Makeba, S/Africa, SACP, Soweto, UnemploymentNo CommentsViews:

As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human... Read more

Towards a Strategic Agenda for Cohort 6 of the Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Fellowship

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa Union, Africa’s CDC, COVID-19, Health leadership, Kofi Annan, Public healthNo CommentsViews:

By Chris Kwaja Introduction: Africa continues to face interconnected public health challenges driven by infectious disease outbreaks, weak health systems, climate change, demographic transit... Read more

Wits, Prof Achille Mbembe and the Remaking of Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, CWUR, Necropolitics, President John Mahama of Ghana, Prof Achille Mbembe, WITSNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The current edition of the Centre for World University Ranking (CWUR) named South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand (aka Wits) in Johannesburg as the number one univer... Read more

The West Still Leads in the 2026 CWUR, With an Upset in Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, France, Japan, Makerere University, QS, SOUTH AFRICA, THE, Tsinghua University, UI, UK, University of the Witwatersrand, USNo CommentsViews:

The 2026 version of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) is out and the United States of America, the UK, Japan and France are still the global knowledge powers if the ranking exer... Read more

Morocco Knocks South Africa Off Top Spot as Africa’s Leading Industrial Economy

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 2025 Africa Industrialisation Index, AfCFTA, Central Africa, East Africa, Europe, Middle East, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

Is it possible that Africa has broken out of its ‘no-show’ status in industrialisation at last? Well, that is exactly what Business Insider is reporting. As pleasantly surprising as that is... Read more

Any Signs of Tajudeen Abdulraheem’s Successor As Africa’s 1st President, 17 Years After His Demise?

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 'Africa Rising', Africa Renaissance, Africa’s ‘Aljazeera’, Ali Mazrui, CDD-WA, Frantz Fanon Centenary, Mo Ibrahim, NEPAD, President John Mahama of Ghana, Prof Abubakar Momoh, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Segun Osoba, Thabo Mbeki, ‘African Conundrum’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA In late November 2025, the CDD-West Africa marked the Centenary of Frantz Fanon in Jos, Nigeria. The Centenary was thematised ‘Fanon and the African Condition; 100 Year... Read more

The Unextinguishable Flame: A Tribute to Prof Segun Osoba

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: History, OAU – Ife, Paradoxes of colonialism and the potentials of liberation, Rest in power, The Minority Report & Draft Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1976), UI, Voice for the voiceless and a bulwark for the marginalized, Yusuf Bala Usman, ‘Father-figure of radicalism’No CommentsViews:

By Fabian Okoye Prof. Segun Osoba has taken a final bow, but his flame is still blazing, fierce, defiant and unquenchable. His departure is not only that of a scholar, but of a patriot whose... Read more

A Divided Africa on France and the Sahelian States on Display?

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, France, Peace maker, President Ruto of Kenya, Three Sahelian statesNo CommentsViews:

Something is happening to and in Africa that is not easy to characterise or that Intervention doesn’t have enough details to characterise. A set of African states – the three Sahelian... Read more

To Repair a Fragmented World Requires History – Prof Toyin Falola

Posted By: adminon: April 28, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Climate Change, Culture, Ethics, History, New technology, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:

We live in a fragmented world, mending which would require dealing with the past with integrity. Prof Toyin Falola from whom came this weighty historiographical stance says this has to be th... Read more