World From Africa | Intervention

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:

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

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:

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

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:

“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

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:

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

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:

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

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