Those who think Africa has put behind the culture of coups might start going back to the classics on why coups occur. In the past five years or so, no less than three coups have occurred: Ga... Read more
Afghanistan and anarchy in Nigeria might have stolen the headlines but Covid-19 is still a threat in its own right. Although Africans are not dying in hundreds of thousands as initially fear... Read more
The American ruling class is, by considerable consensus, one if not the most successful ruling class in human history. This assertion rests on two counts. First is constructing and successfu... Read more
This book was not written with Nigeria in mind but Nigeria fits neatly as a case study in its predictive accuracy the day after the UN’s Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) re... Read more
Concluding the Prof Chimalum Nwankwo interview is this installment, the first installment of which ran under the header: “The More Unstable Nigeria is, the Better for the West – Prof Chimalu... Read more
It was not expected that South Africa which fought a national liberation war to sit comfortably along with Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola and Algeria, helplessly watching the AU operationalise it... Read more
Amidst looting and killing in the wake of the unprecedented imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma by the South African Constitutional Court, Prince Machela of THE SOWETAN TIMES penned... Read more
A leading South African player speaks on the earth-shaking imprisonment of an ‘African big man, former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma I realise that by calling this press conference t... Read more
China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary
The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party is providing China a strategic opportunity for the rhetorical offensive, this time playing up its clean record as far as colonising others is con... Read more
In the cover picture of this spectacle are (L-R), the late Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. They are all gone as at today. In the second... Read more
