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What Has It Got to Do With the Nigeria Labour Movement That, 25 Years On, It’s Clearer Than Ever That ‘New Labour’ Failed?

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Brexit, Corbynism, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, New Labour, Tony BlairNo CommentsViews:
What Has It Got to Do With the Nigeria Labour Movement That, 25 Years On, It’s Clearer Than Ever That ‘New Labour’ Failed?

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

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‘Journey of an African Colony’

Posted By: adminon: April 29, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Aba Women’s Strike, Abeokuta Women’s Strike, ABU Zaria, Enugu Coal Miners’ Strike, Olasupo Shasore, Prof Joseph Inikori, Transatlantic Slave TradeNo CommentsViews:
‘Journey of an African Colony’

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

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PhD Students, Not Professors, Conduct the Most Innovative Researches – Prof Mahmood Mamdani

Posted By: adminon: April 10, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Herbert Lehman Professor of Government @ Columbia University, Makerere University - Uganda, South Africa in 1994No CommentsViews:
PhD Students, Not Professors, Conduct the Most Innovative Researches – Prof Mahmood Mamdani

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

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Carnegie Foundation Appoints Dr. Gilles Yabi as Fellow for Africa Program

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Carnegie Foundation, International Crisis Group, Jeune Afrique, RFI, WATHI, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
Carnegie Foundation Appoints Dr. Gilles Yabi as Fellow for Africa Program

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

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No, Angelique Kidjo’s ‘Mother Nature’ Cannot Beat Her ‘Agolo’

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: 'Agolo', CNN, Queen of the Grammies, ‘Mother Nature’, “Made in Lagos”No CommentsViews:
No, Angelique Kidjo's 'Mother Nature' Cannot Beat Her 'Agolo'

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

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Angelique Kidjo Does It Again, Grabs Grammy’s Best Global Music Category Award

Posted By: adminon: April 04, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: 'Agolo', CNN, Queen of the Grammies, ‘Mother Nature’, “Made in Lagos”No CommentsViews:
Angelique Kidjo Does It Again, Grabs Grammy's Best Global Music Category Award

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

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Why Powerful States Lose Asymmetric Wars

Posted By: adminon: April 01, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, Booby traps, Chechnya, Civil defense, Contras, Guerrilla warfare, Ho Chi Ming, LICs, Mujaheddin, Nixon Doctrine, Roadside bombings, Suicide missions, Tora Bora, UNITA, USA, USSR, VietnamNo CommentsViews:
Why Powerful States Lose Asymmetric Wars

A 2021 retiree as a Professor of Political Science from the Richmond University in the United States of America but currently teaching at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, the... Read more

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Nigeria and Britain Sizes Each Other Up Again at NIIA’ Ambassadorial Forum

Posted By: adminon: March 31, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Ambassadorial Forum, Global Britain, NIIANo CommentsViews:
Nigeria and Britain Sizes Each Other Up Again at NIIA' Ambassadorial Forum

“UK-Nigeria Relations and Global Affairs” is the topic that participants at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA) Ambassadorial Forum will be cracking their heads over in a... Read more

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Red Alert on Water Crisis in Africa

Posted By: adminon: March 29, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: African continent, Lake Victoria, Sub-Saharan Africa, UNICEF, World Resources InstituteNo CommentsViews:
Red Alert on Water Crisis in Africa

An Inter-Press Service feature originally titled “Water Scarcity in Africa to Reach Dangerously High Levels By 2025 is reproduced here for the message it is sending – a red alert which... Read more

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2022 World Happiness Report Wonders How the World Could Be Happy @ a Time of Pandemic and War

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Lee Kuan Yew, Maroko, Tony Blair, VenezuelaNo CommentsViews:
2022 World Happiness Report Wonders How the World Could Be Happy @ a Time of Pandemic and War

Nigeria has yielded ground to Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania in terms of the happiest people in the world in the current edition of the World Happiness Report. But it was Nigeria the story sta... Read more

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