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Don’t Facts Matter Any More? Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Promotes Afrocentrist Nonsense

Posted By: adminon: April 23, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Afrocentrism, Enlightenment legacy of rationalism, Netflix series, Queen Cleopatra, ‘Out of Africa’, ‘Stolen legacy’No CommentsViews:
Don’t Facts Matter Any More? Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Promotes Afrocentrist Nonsense

Prof Gabriel Andrade, the Venezuelan author of the piece below as well as MercatorNet, the medium which publishes him are both anti ‘woke’ and promote provocative stuff generally on that med... Read more

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Hasn’t AAPS Lighted A Candle With Tectonic Implications in African Political Science?

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: AAPS, Critical geopolitics, Epistemic exploitation, FAANG, History, Informationalised capitalism, International Relations, Literature, Political ScienceNo CommentsViews:
Hasn't AAPS Lighted A Candle With Tectonic Implications in African Political Science?

The African Association of Political Science (AAPS) might have experienced an epistemic conversion of Pauline proportion. Those who see the title of this conference as a tectonic shift in kn... Read more

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Obasanjo’s Geo-cultural Lens on Ike Ekweremadu’s UK Case

Posted By: adminon: April 10, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Ancestors, Geo-cultural lens, Intentions, Judgment Day, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, ShylockNo CommentsViews:
Obasanjo's Geo-cultural Lens on Ike Ekweremadu's UK Case

The chasm between the typical Nigerian elite and the masses is such that the masses clap for joy whenever any of the members of the elite encounter adversity. Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s situat... Read more

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The Conservatism of Multi-Party Democracy in Developing Countries

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Abuja, APC administration, Defensive Radicalism, New Delhi, Pretoria, WashingtonNo CommentsViews:
The Conservatism of Multi-Party Democracy in Developing Countries

By Aminu Habibu Jahun   Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the United States as the dominant world  power, competitive multi-party  democracy  triumphed as the ... Read more

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Intellectuals of Maritime Statecraft Chew Domain Awareness @ NIIA Forum

Posted By: adminon: April 02, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Geometry of power, National security assemblage, Networked information, NIIANo CommentsViews:
Intellectuals of Maritime Statecraft Chew Domain Awareness @ NIIA Forum

In an entangled world involving a geometry of power based on networked information and virtual technologies, the topic must be a hit within the assemblage around national security in and aro... Read more

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Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

Posted By: adminon: March 27, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Botswana, Democracy in Africa, Department of Government, Ghana, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Okot p’Bitek, Political Science, Thomas Sankara, Zimbabwe, ‘Rhodes Must Fall’No CommentsViews:
Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

As is always the case and without being chauvinistic there, Nigeria tends to flash the signal or sound the alarm. On February 9th, 2018, it did so when an event on democracy turned into a cl... Read more

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My Nine Days of Lessons on Democracy and Development in India

Posted By: adminon: March 25, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Indian Council for Cultural Relations, INEC, Love, Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, Mumtaz Mahal, Taj Mahal, The Electoral Commission of India, The Gen-Next Democracy Network Programme, Winston ChurchillNo CommentsViews:
My Nine Days of Lessons on Democracy and Development in India

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed It was a privilege and honour for me to be among the Nigerian delegation to the 8th Batch of Gen-Next Democracy Network Programme from March 6th to 15th, 2023. The Gen... Read more

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Peter Obi and the Ideological Crisis of the Nigerian Left

Posted By: adminon: March 23, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Algerian independence, Articulatory politics, Classical Marxism, Frankfurt scholars, Gramsci, SCON, ‘Marxism in Africa’No CommentsViews:
Peter Obi and the Ideological Crisis of the Nigerian Left

If the Nigerian Left or what remains of it has not publicly acknowledged Peter Obi for forcing an ontological moment in there, it might only be because the recovery from the Obi shocker for... Read more

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University of Cape Town Still the African Star in the 2023 QS Subject Ranking

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: 'Colonialism of a special type', Africa, Ranking criteria, SOUTH AFRICA, University of Cape TownNo CommentsViews:
University of Cape Town Still the African Star in the 2023 QS Subject Ranking

When one looks at some of the criteria used in most of the ranking exercises, one could say it is not for African universities. A criterion such as the international character of a faculty o... Read more

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So, Why Do Emerging Third Force Political Parties Flounder and Gets Absorbed by Incumbent Parties?

Posted By: adminon: February 10, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: AFRC, Charles Margai, Ernest Koroma, Mada Bio, NGC, PMDC, SLPP, Tejan-Kabbah, UNPPNo CommentsViews:
So, Why Do Emerging Third Force Political Parties Flounder and Gets Absorbed by Incumbent Parties?

This piece has a Sierra Leonean background but applicable to much of Africa – Intervention By Yusuf Bangura PhD “Thaimu Bangura’s PDP lost steam when it entered into an alliance with T... Read more

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