World From Africa | Intervention

Rebuilding Trust and Restoring Security As Strategic Priorities for the New ECOWAS Chairman

Posted By: adminon: July 22, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: AES, African Development Bank, African Union, ECOWAS, IMF, The World Bank, United NationsNo CommentsViews:

By Chris Kwaja Introduction The 69th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was held on July 19th, 2026 ... Read more

Participants Clash Over Anti-African Immigrants Violence in South Africa at CDD’s 2026 Mandela Day in Nigeria (2)

Posted By: adminon: July 20, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 2026 Mandela International Day, ANC, MIMEC, NSUK, Thabo Mbeki, Zohran MamdaniNo CommentsViews:

What Cde Dapo Olorunyomi unfolded in the Lecture delivered on his behalf by Mister Silas Jonathan, his staffer, (see first part of this report) is an exercise in reverse engineering in the d... Read more

Participants Clash Over Anti-African Immigrants Violence in South Africa at CDD’s 2026 Mandela Day in Nigeria (1)

Posted By: adminon: July 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: AfCFTA, Afrophobia, ANC, ASUU, CDD-West Africa, Foreign influence, Mandela, NSUK, UNNo CommentsViews:

The 2026 Mandela Day in Nigeria turned into a clash site of two dominant but contending views on the anti-African immigrant violence in South Africa. A remarkably novel interpretation of the... Read more

Nelson Mandela’s Long Developmental Walk Through CDD-WA to Nigeria’s Shaddai Community

Posted By: adminon: July 17, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 2026 Mandela Day, CDD-WA, Development, Kuje Area Council, Shadadi Community, Shadadi LGEA Primary School, UNNo CommentsViews:

Though long dead, Nelson Mandela still exercises symbolic power on development across Africa. The latest material evidence for the claim came alive today (17/07/20260 when CDD-West Africa ma... Read more

NIIA Tackles Nigeria’s Self-Materialisation in the World

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Global Order, International Relations, NIIANo CommentsViews:

How is Nigeria materialising itself in a turbulent, disordered world? This is not a theme on which there is a consensus among Nigerians and others interested in Nigeria. Intervention can now... Read more

CDD Holds 2026 Memorial Lecture for Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem and Abubakar Momoh

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: CDD, Democratic consolidation, Dr Tajudden Abdul-Raheem, Political parties, Prof Abubakar MomohNo CommentsViews:

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD- West Africa) is holding a lecture in memory of Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem and Professor Abubakar Momoh Memorial Lecture, two late Africa-minded s... Read more

The World Needs a Living Left: Voices From South African Conference

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: ANC, Left, Miriam Makeba, S/Africa, SACP, Soweto, UnemploymentNo CommentsViews:

As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human... Read more

Towards a Strategic Agenda for Cohort 6 of the Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Fellowship

Posted By: adminon: June 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa Union, Africa’s CDC, COVID-19, Health leadership, Kofi Annan, Public healthNo CommentsViews:

By Chris Kwaja Introduction: Africa continues to face interconnected public health challenges driven by infectious disease outbreaks, weak health systems, climate change, demographic transit... Read more

Wits, Prof Achille Mbembe and the Remaking of Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 06, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, CWUR, Necropolitics, President John Mahama of Ghana, Prof Achille Mbembe, WITS1 CommentViews:

By Adagbo Onoja The current edition of the Centre for World University Ranking (CWUR) named South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand (aka Wits) in Johannesburg as the number one univer... Read more

The West Still Leads in the 2026 CWUR, With an Upset in Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, France, Japan, Makerere University, QS, SOUTH AFRICA, THE, Tsinghua University, UI, UK, University of the Witwatersrand, USNo CommentsViews:

The 2026 version of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) is out and the United States of America, the UK, Japan and France are still the global knowledge powers if the ranking exer... Read more