World From Africa | Intervention

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, WITSNo CommentsViews:

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

Morocco Knocks South Africa Off Top Spot as Africa’s Leading Industrial Economy

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 2025 Africa Industrialisation Index, AfCFTA, Central Africa, East Africa, Europe, Middle East, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

Is it possible that Africa has broken out of its ‘no-show’ status in industrialisation at last? Well, that is exactly what Business Insider is reporting. As pleasantly surprising as that is... Read more

Any Signs of Tajudeen Abdulraheem’s Successor As Africa’s 1st President, 17 Years After His Demise?

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 'Africa Rising', Africa Renaissance, Africa’s ‘Aljazeera’, Ali Mazrui, CDD-WA, Frantz Fanon Centenary, Mo Ibrahim, NEPAD, President John Mahama of Ghana, Prof Abubakar Momoh, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Segun Osoba, Thabo Mbeki, ‘African Conundrum’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA In late November 2025, the CDD-West Africa marked the Centenary of Frantz Fanon in Jos, Nigeria. The Centenary was thematised ‘Fanon and the African Condition; 100 Year... Read more

The Unextinguishable Flame: A Tribute to Prof Segun Osoba

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: History, OAU – Ife, Paradoxes of colonialism and the potentials of liberation, Rest in power, The Minority Report & Draft Constitution for the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1976), UI, Voice for the voiceless and a bulwark for the marginalized, Yusuf Bala Usman, ‘Father-figure of radicalism’No CommentsViews:

By Fabian Okoye Prof. Segun Osoba has taken a final bow, but his flame is still blazing, fierce, defiant and unquenchable. His departure is not only that of a scholar, but of a patriot whose... Read more

A Divided Africa on France and the Sahelian States on Display?

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, France, Peace maker, President Ruto of Kenya, Three Sahelian statesNo CommentsViews:

Something is happening to and in Africa that is not easy to characterise or that Intervention doesn’t have enough details to characterise. A set of African states – the three Sahelian... Read more

To Repair a Fragmented World Requires History – Prof Toyin Falola

Posted By: adminon: April 28, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Climate Change, Culture, Ethics, History, New technology, Veritas University - AbujaNo CommentsViews:

We live in a fragmented world, mending which would require dealing with the past with integrity. Prof Toyin Falola from whom came this weighty historiographical stance says this has to be th... Read more

Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 'Clash of Civilisations', 'Emperors', Africa, Colonialism, Dictators, DRC, Eseentialism, Pope Leo XIVNo CommentsViews:

There is, indeed, radical contingency. Who would have known that a ruling Pope will be the ultimate nemesis of false emperors and professional dictators across the world? Well, in less than... Read more

CDD-West Africa Unfolds 2026 – 2030 Strategic Plan, Vows Cracking Democratic Deficits in the Region

Posted By: adminon: March 31, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Ajaokuta Steel Company, APRM, CDD-West Africa, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, ECOWAS, IMF/World Bank, NEEDS 1 and 11No CommentsViews:

Democracy and development, the two explosive variables behind the Centre for Democracy and Development, aka CDD-West Africa each got hopelessly tattered scorecard earlier today (March, 31st,... Read more

President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo Republic’s 95% Sea Slide After 42 Years in Power

Posted By: adminon: March 26, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Oil-dependent Congo economy, Opposition, Paul Biya of Cameroon, Poverty, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in Equatorial GuineaNo CommentsViews:

Overwhelmed by their own internal problems, Nigerians have been unable to pay much attention to the renewal of tenure for one of Africa’s symbols of the phenomenon of prolonged hold on power... Read more