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Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more

Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: January 03, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Afrobeat, Cashless economy, CBN, Fuji, Highlife, Idanre in Ondo State, POS, Poundo, Private industrialists, Smoked shrimps, The Wheat Trap, Village Market, Yar’Adua Conference CentreNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura I’ve been reflecting on three issues since we returned from a two-week trip to Nigeria three weeks ago. Before that visit, I had not been to Nigeria for 14 years. My last vi... Read more

Prof Cecil Blake @ 80 Symposium Promises a Counter-Hegemonic Articulation of Africa

Posted By: adminon: December 27, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Imaginative Geographies', African communication scholarship, Counter-hegemonic articulation of Africa, Deconstruction, Prof Cecil Blake, Prof Edward Said, Prof Umar Pate, TropesNo CommentsViews:

Rarely have African communication scholarship paid adequate attention to deconstruction of the tropes which constitute what Prof Edward Said calls ‘imaginative geographies’ and by which hege... Read more

Bingham University Set to Crack Instability Under Democratic Setting in Africa

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Australia, Bingham University, Cultural pluralism, DEMOCRACY, Ghana, Instability, SOUTH AFRICA, The HagueNo CommentsViews:

Bingham University on the outskirt of Abuja in Nigeria has set aside March 5th to 8th, 2025 for an international conference on “political instability and the crisis of development in Africa.... Read more

The New Spirit of Africa: Ethiopian Airlines Rules Africa’s Skies

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Air Maroc, and Brazil, Argentina, Asky Airlines, Chile, cities in most Middle Eastern and Asian countries, Colombia in Latin America, Complete Ethiopianisation, EgyptAir, International business practices, Kenya Airways, Poland, Russia, South African Airways, West European countriesNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura A silent revolution is taking place in Africa’s aviation industry. For the first time ever, there is a clear and unrivalled superpower that has taken control of Africa’s ski... Read more

40 Years After Idiagbon’s Terrifying Invitation Following My Inaugural Lecture in 1984 – Prof Anthony Asiwaju

On December 12th, 1984 starting from 4 pm at the University of Lagos, Prof Anthony Asiwaju, then the Dean of the university’s Faculty of Arts, delivered an Inaugural Lecture crisply titled A... Read more

Trauma, Fantasy and Hegemony in Comprehending Prof Jibrin Ibrahim’s 70th Birthday

Posted By: adminon: December 14, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Critical distance’, 2nd International, Africa, Anthropocene, Bolaji Akinyemi, Fantasy, Halford Mackinder, Hegemony, Intellectuals of statecraft, Prof. Yakubu Ochefu, SAP, TraumaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It seems safe to assume that the 70th birthday anniversary of Prof Jibrin Ibrahim is finally over. But an entire week celebrating a single political scientist in a country o... Read more

We Were Blown Away by the Colossal Size and Complexity of the Dangote Refinery

Posted By: adminon: December 10, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa’s biggest refinery, Engineer Ganiyu Adebayo, Floating buoy, Ibeju LekkiNo CommentsViews:

Switzerland based Sierra Leonean political economist and ex-ABU, Zaria academic, Dr Yusuf Bangura who has been in Nigeria in the past week took time off to visit the Dangote Refinery in Lago... Read more

Three Big Take-aways From An African Family Trip to Namibia, Botswana, Cape Town and Addis Ababa

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Black lives, Botswana Democratic Party, Christianity in Ethiopia, Decolonisation, Ethiopian sense of independence, Ethiopia’s imperial grandeur, High African entrepreneurship in Ethiopia, Namibia, Oromia, Rural Botswana, The Adwa Victory Memorial, Tswana ethnicityNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura A few days ago, we talked about the uniqueness of each of the four countries we visited and the amazing people that made our tour enjoyable. We want to conclude these refle... Read more

Strategising on Instrumentalising Social Protection to Save West Africa From Climate Change at the OTUWA-DTDA’s Abuja Regional Workshop

Posted By: adminon: October 09, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Climate colonialism, DTDA, Frederick Chiluba, IPCC, Just transition, Kenneth Kaunda, Michael Imoudu, OTUWA, Registrar of Trade Unions, Sekou Toure, Siaka Stevens, Silva de Lula, Social protection, ‘Polluters pay’ principleNo CommentsViews:

How might a severely climate change threatened continent guarantee the social protection that can make the energy transition from fossil fuel a just transition in the face of unspeakable soc... Read more