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
Amidst something that looks like a retraction, the story has, however, gone far that Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, had asked asked the United States to move its military headquarter... Read more
This is not a controversy but a conversation between two economists although those who can carefully read between or behind the lines can see each’s main hint. The first economist is Larry E... Read more
Interview By Marian Blasberg, Jens Glüsing & Britta Kollenbroich His sun shone brilliantly and Brazil emerged from the stereotype of a basket case. He was even taunting the IMF wi... Read more
Kenyan born leading African writer, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, is stretching further the language question in African Literature by becoming what UK’s The Guardian is calling the first writer to be... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA There is a sense in which this interview violates the norm against talking bad about the dead but the interview was granted and published when the now late Tanzanian presiden... Read more
New York-based development economist and global policy expert takes off the gloves to give it to the World Bank which is used to being caressed with nice, ‘mature’ statements. The title has... Read more
It is March 2nd, 2021 and the 125th anniversary of the battle of Adwa in 1896 where European/Italian forces were given the beating of their life by Ethiopian forces. It is appropriately an A... Read more
Is it the ‘Mandate of Heaven’ or the Chinese Communist Party at work or do the two have the same meaning? This should not be such a stupid question in that, up to 2012 and even i... Read more
