World From Africa Archives - Page 6 of 32

Tinubu, NASS Warned Against Relocation of American, French Bases From Niger to Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Anglo Defence Pact, Burkina Faso, Gulf of Guinea, Mali, NATO, Niger, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

Some seven Nigerian scholar-activists have issued an open letter to President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly on the dangers of accepting the relocation of American and French military... Read more

End of French Empire or French Manoeuvre in (West) Africa?

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Coups, ECOWAS, French Empire, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

The democratic space in West Africa has not been a smooth one of recent. It has been defined by one coup after the other, most if not all of them emitting high voltage rhetoric against Franc... Read more

The End of the Western Democracy Project in Africa

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Autocratic rule, Deglobalisation, Democracy promotion, Democratic backsliding, ECOWAS, EU, Latin America, People's Republic of China, Russia, the West, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura The optimism of the 1990s, which saw a massive rollback of autocratic regimes in favour of electoral democracy, has given way to pessimism about democracy’s continued spread... Read more

CDD Flashes Rays of Hope With New Chairperson and Five Others Into International Governing Council

Posted By: adminon: March 12, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: CDD-WA, ECOWAS, Epistemic justice, OTUWA, The 'African condition', Think tankingNo CommentsViews:

The Centre for Democracy and Development – West Africa (CDD-WA) has formally announced the appointment of Cde John Odah as Chairman of its International Governing Council. The change comes a... Read more

Ahead of Prof Irene Pogoson’s Academic Moment in IRs

Posted By: adminon: March 06, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Decentring, Feminism, Inter-cosmological IRs, International order, IRs, UINo CommentsViews:

It is about time someone in Nigeria takes on the concept of power in the international system and, by implication, in Political Science. And who might do this better than Prof Irene Pogoson?... Read more

NPSA Cracks Parliamentary or Presidential System of Government Question in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Civil society, Left, National Assembly, NPSA, Opposition. Substantive democracy, Parliamentary system, Presidential systemNo CommentsViews:

It is debating time again in Nigeria regarding the most appropriate system of government for the country. The Nigerian Political Science Association (NPSA) in whose intellectual sphere of in... Read more

Nigeria’s Prof Olufemi Taiwo to ‘Knock’ Decolonisation @ Sussex Development Seminar March 13th

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Coloniality of power', Decoloniality, IDS, Imperialism, Prof Olufemi TaiwoNo CommentsViews:

The coloniality of power (the structure, mechanisms, processes, regimes and models of the world order) which serves as the condition of possibility for imperialism is a settled issue. What i... Read more

The Pope’s Call for Gay Blessings Is Not What It Seems?

Posted By: adminon: February 23, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African cardinals, Catholicism, Christianity, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, DignityUSA, Faith and ReasonNo CommentsViews:

Something seems to be brewing in the Catholic Church which is not easy to grasp. This essay by Richard D. Mohr, a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Il... Read more

Two Days Rethinking Democracy in West Africa in the Face of Discontent and Coups

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Armed populism', Democracy and Development, ECOWAS, Electoral accountability, France, Grounded theory, INEC, Military Vanguardism, Niger – Mali – Burkina Faso, Robert Cox, RussiaNo CommentsViews:

It was a pleasant two-day house (hotel) arrest for the purpose of a collective peer review of a potentially explosive book project on electoral accountability in Nigeria on the one hand and... Read more

Stop the Constitutional Coup in Senegal – African Intellectuals, Activists Tell Senegalese President

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African intellectuals, AU, Civil society activists, ECOWAS, Electoral Hub, President Macky Sall, Senegalese people, UNNo CommentsViews:

There has been a blistering rebuke for President Macky Sall of Senegal for staging a constitutional coup by sacking opposition members of parliament in that country and embarking on unconsti... Read more