World From Africa | Intervention

Intervention’s Preview of Ambassador MK Ibrahim’s Book Earns Rejoinder

Posted By: adminon: March 18, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Amb Femi George, Amb Martin Uhomoibhi, Amb MK Ibrahim, Bolytag International Publishers, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ‘Opendential’1 CommentViews:

Intervention’s preview story on Nigeria’s Ambassador MK Ibrahim’s memoirs to be publicly presented March 19th, 2022 has attracted a point of correction. The rejoinder from a retired ambassad... Read more

Looking Forward to Ambassador MK Ibrahim’s Book on Recent Nigerian Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: March 16, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Academics, Career diplomats, Military commanders, Place - makingNo CommentsViews:

It is yet to be part of the broad consciousness of the populace that even career diplomats owe the society an account of their tour of duty. As such, neither the society demands that from th... Read more

Updated – Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: What Does It Mean for Africa?

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Concert of Europe, NATO, The doctrine of spheres of influence, West and RussiaNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura (Bangura.ym@gmail.com) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks a decisive end to the post-Cold War security regime that has governed the strained but stable relations between the... Read more

Questioning the Tribal As Against the Ethnic As Freetown Flaunts Diversity at 230

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Australia, First Nations, Hausa, Prof Ibrahim Abdullah, Themneh, US, Western anthropologists, YorubaNo CommentsViews:

Freetown, one of Africa’s most symbolic capital cities, is 230 years old and it is not missing using the anniversary as an opportunity to flaunt its survival in history, with particula... Read more

The End of US Triumphalism and Return of Realpolitik

Posted By: adminon: March 09, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: EU, France 24, Iran, Sanctions, US, VenezuelaNo CommentsViews:

By Dr. Yusuf Bangura I have been following debates on the economic dimensions of the Ukraine crisis on France 24 since the Russian invasion of that country. France 24 does a good job of brin... Read more

NIIA Hosts a Crucial Seminar on the War in Ukraine

Posted By: adminon: March 08, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Ambassador Martin Kimani, Downloading, NIIA, Prof Tiyambe ZelezaNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) has scheduled a seminar on the “Russian-Ukraine War and the Imperatives of a New Global Order”. While those who are close... Read more

Ukraine As a Virtuous War

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Discursive power, DSTV, Libya, NATO, Realists, RT, Things Fall Apart, Virtuous War, ‘African condition’No CommentsViews:

Two wars are going on consecutively in Ukraine. The first war is the one raging on the ground involving troops, missiles, blood and agony. It is as real as hell. But that war cannot and does... Read more

Kenya’s Ambassador Martin Kimani Inserts Africa into the Global Politics of Violent Bordering

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: African Union, Biometric violence at the airports, Electronic surveillance of border posts, European geopolitics, Kenyan State, OAU, The resurgence of walls, Violent borderingNo CommentsViews:

It is no longer whether what the Kenyan Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Martin Kimani, said about the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the African consensus or not.... Read more

‘Why a Coup May Happen in America’

Posted By: adminon: February 21, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, American Revolution, Asia, Capitol Hill, CIA, FBI, Frank Krifka, General Mark Milley, Latin America, Liberal democracy, MIC, Mr. Chuck Schumer, NSD, SNAP, Thomas Sankara, Wrights MillsNo CommentsViews:

In this long but interesting piece, the author, a former General Secretary of the Campaign for Democracy, (CD) in Nigeria in the 1990s and a Professor of Political Science at the Lagos State... Read more

Managing Elections, Democracy and Development Towards Political Stability in Africa, (3)

Posted By: adminon: February 18, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: ACDEG, Algiers Declaration of 1990, AUPSC, CSSDCA, Lome Declaration of 2000, OAU/AU normative frameworksNo CommentsViews:

Ambassador Usman Sarki concludes his trilogy on this subject: There is no shortage of normative and institutional frameworks against coup d’etat and unconstitutional changes of governments i... Read more