A big puzzle indeed. Only last week, the London based The Economist wrote on Why South Africans are fed up after 30 years of democracy. The Economist may have its own baggage but many would... Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
