World From Africa | Intervention

Two Days Rethinking Democracy in West Africa in the Face of Discontent and Coups

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Armed populism', Democracy and Development, ECOWAS, Electoral accountability, France, Grounded theory, INEC, Military Vanguardism, Niger – Mali – Burkina Faso, Robert Cox, RussiaNo CommentsViews:

It was a pleasant two-day house (hotel) arrest for the purpose of a collective peer review of a potentially explosive book project on electoral accountability in Nigeria on the one hand and... Read more

Stop the Constitutional Coup in Senegal – African Intellectuals, Activists Tell Senegalese President

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African intellectuals, AU, Civil society activists, ECOWAS, Electoral Hub, President Macky Sall, Senegalese people, UNNo CommentsViews:

There has been a blistering rebuke for President Macky Sall of Senegal for staging a constitutional coup by sacking opposition members of parliament in that country and embarking on unconsti... Read more

‘The Lenin Centenary Declaration’ for the Records

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African integration, European Union, United Nations General Assembly, Veto power, Vladimir Illich LeninNo CommentsViews:

The Lenin Centenary International Conference to mark the January 21, 1924 passing of Vladimir Illich Lenin was held in Abuja, Nigeria from January 22-23, 2024. It brought together scholars,... Read more

Obafemi Awolowo University Sets Feb 14th, 2024 to Re-engage Democracy

Posted By: adminon: February 03, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Adams Oshiomhole, Africa, CODESRIA, DEMOCRACY, George Washington University – DC, Illiberalism, Legon, Leiden, olusegun ObasanjoNo CommentsViews:

With a record number of 50 countries across the world holding crucial elections in 2024 alone, it is not surprising if the world reactivate interest in this much contested concept. This is m... Read more

Lenin Laid Foundation for Global Confrontation With Imperialism, Global Capitalism and Colonialism

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African liberation movements, Cold War, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Dictatorship of the proletariat, Marxism – Leninism, NATO, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Warsaw Pact, ‘What is to be Done’No CommentsViews:

By Prof W. o. Alli I welcome you all to this historic Conference to mark the centenary of the passing away of one of the greatest revolutionaries of the Twentieth Century, Vladimir Ilyich Le... Read more

NPSA Examines Role of Scholars in Democracy Across the World

Posted By: adminon: January 23, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, America, DEMOCRACY, Europe, NPSA, ScholarsNo CommentsViews:

What exactly do scholars as a social category do to, for and/or against democracy? How do they do so in South Africa and in Europe as well as in the Americas? These are the posers the... Read more

Lenin Centenary International Conference Opens in Abuja January 22nd, 2024

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Africa, APC, BRICS, Hegemony, Karl Marx, Left, Marxism – Leninism, Neoliberalism, PDP, Popular culture, Right, USSRNo CommentsViews:

Marxist-Leninist ideologues, radical activists, broad Leftists, researchers, politicians and sundry pundits are gathering at a 2-day critical celebration of Lenin’s Centenary at an Internati... Read more

Dangers of Ignoring the ‘Constitutive Outside’ in the Current Anti-Coup Narrative in Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Peaceful Rise', Coups in Africa, Modernisation, Prof Claude Ake, Prof John Mearsheimer, Prof Joseph Nye Jnr, Prof Samuel Huntington, Republic of China, United States of America, ‘Barrack culture’, ‘Social Science as imperialism’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja This is not a rejoinder to Prof Jibrin Ibrahim’s January 18th, 2024 opinion titled “The First Coup”. His opinion only serves this piece as the peg for a caution agains... Read more

How Bolshevism Built Modern Britain

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Anglo-Marxism, Clement Attlee, George Bernard Shaw, Lloyd George’s Bolshevik bugbear., Marxist historians, Simon Webb’s 1919: Britain’s Year of Revolutions, Soviet communism, Vladimir Lenin, ‘The Rationalisation of Russia’No CommentsViews:

Lenin still haunts our welfare state, says the author, Pratinav Anil who wrote this piece originally for Unherd. Pratinav Anil is introduced by Unherd as the author of two bleak assessments... Read more

Plagiarism is Not a Sin: Claudine Gay’s Failure was Intellectual, Not Moral

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Harvard, MIT, Neri Oxman, Plagiarism, Prof Claudine Gay, University of PennsylvaniaNo CommentsViews:

The orthodoxy in academia is capital NO to plagiarism. But, in the essay below, Kathleen Stock who is introduced as a columnist for UnHerd; author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for... Read more