Yesterday, they were called leftists, communists, rebels and even rascals. Very shortly, they would be sworn-in to become president and Vice-President of Colombia, a historical about-turn of... Read more
By Catherine Grant, (Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK) & Kelley Sams (Assistant Professor, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine)... Read more
The Economic Commission for Africa, (ECA) is out with its own formal tribute to one of Africa’s sharpest voice in development matters: the late Prof Thandika Mkandawire who passed on March 2... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura, (PhD) The provisional results of the 2021 Mid-Term census recently released by Statistics -Sierra Leone have raised eyebrows among Sierra Leoneans. According to the results... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki The pursuit of foreign policy should be intricately and intrinsically linked to the attainment of a nation’s overall well-being. In Nigeria’s case it should be unde... Read more
Though located in faraway South America, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is, indeed, very close to Nigeria. Not if it is in the era of Samuel Huntington’s civilisational determinism, giv... Read more
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
