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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
