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
By Maryam MA What does a young Nigerian/Mauritanian immigrant, fresh off the boat, know about Black History Month? Nothing! I knew nothing about Black History when I first arrived in the Uni... Read more
Nigeria, the self-understood ‘giant of Africa’ says it has no territorial ambition nor aspired to make Benin Republic or any other country for that matter a part of Nigeria. A Ministry of Fo... Read more
Leaders and spokespersons of Plan International have been rating the out-going Country Director of the international Non-governmental organisation. The pioneer Country Director of Plan Inter... Read more
One African, Nigerian eye in fact, took a look at this graphic from the IMF and asked: No Shift in Africa? Or the Africa shift does not matter? He says that while China and India shifts are... Read more
The earlier version of this report wrongly identified Ambassador Moussa Faki Mahamat as an Algerian. His Excellency is from the Republic of Chad where he had been Prime Minister and Foreign... Read more
