World From Africa | Intervention

NPSA Set to Interrogate Democracy

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Liberal democracy, NPSA, Right-wing populismNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) is set to re-examine the concept of democracy in the context of on-going worldwide interrogation of the concept. The re-engagement is planne... Read more

Botswana Ends America’s Decade-long Dominance in the 4×400 Men’s Relay

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Algerians, Botswana, Ethiopia, European or Saudi football clubs, Global sprinting, Kenya, Letsile Tebogo, Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith of Côte d’Ivoire, Moroccans, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, South African Zakithi Nene, Tanzanians, US anchor Rai BenjaminNo CommentsViews:

Botswana Ends America’s Decade-long Dominance in the 4x400 Men’s Relay

By Yusuf Bangura The 4×400 men’s relay was the most exhilarating event in the just-concluded World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Before the race started I was 100 percent convinced... Read more

Gov Sanwo-Olu to Speak on the Geopolitics of Lagos @ NIIA’s 2025 Distinguished Lecture Series

Posted By: adminon: September 14, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Distinguished Lecture series, LAGOS, Megacities, NIIA, Policy millNo CommentsViews:

Cities make capitalism possible. Although capitalism survives through what British Marxist geographer, David Harvey, calls the ‘spatial fix’ – a strategy of moving to new frontiers as soon a... Read more

Universities’ Alliance Can Stimulate Reparations Discourse

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African Union, African universities, African-Caribbean Dialogue on Justice through Reparations, Dark past, global injustices like slavery and imperialism, International Law, International reparations, Peter Kwasi Kodjie, University of ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

Might the reparation movement be moving to African campuses and become more rugged as is hinted in this piece from World Universities News? By Clemence Manyukwe African universities are dr... Read more

NIIA Confronts Africa’s Paradoxical Significance in the World

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Ambassador Godknows Igali, Dr. Julius Nyerere, NIIA, World politicsNo CommentsViews:

Africa is still a puzzle in world politics: rising in significance in the world mostly for demographic and endowment reasons but how does the significance gets realised? Well, the Nigerian I... Read more

Awaiting UNIJOS’s Prof Victor Adetula on Corruption and Democratic Recovery in Africa @ 2025 Billy Dudley Lecture August 25th

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Abuja, Addis Ababa, Billy Dudley, Cairo, International development circuit, Johannesburg, NPSA, Political Science, UI, UNNo CommentsViews:

The Political Science establishment in Nigeria is stepping into an intense intellectual scrutiny of what the phenomenon of corruption might be doing to democratic recovery on the African con... Read more