World From Africa | Intervention

NPSA Examines Role of Scholars in Democracy Across the World

Posted By: adminon: January 23, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, America, DEMOCRACY, Europe, NPSA, ScholarsNo CommentsViews:

What exactly do scholars as a social category do to, for and/or against democracy? How do they do so in South Africa and in Europe as well as in the Americas? These are the posers the... Read more

Lenin Centenary International Conference Opens in Abuja January 22nd, 2024

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Africa, APC, BRICS, Hegemony, Karl Marx, Left, Marxism – Leninism, Neoliberalism, PDP, Popular culture, Right, USSRNo CommentsViews:

Marxist-Leninist ideologues, radical activists, broad Leftists, researchers, politicians and sundry pundits are gathering at a 2-day critical celebration of Lenin’s Centenary at an Internati... Read more

Dangers of Ignoring the ‘Constitutive Outside’ in the Current Anti-Coup Narrative in Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Peaceful Rise', Coups in Africa, Modernisation, Prof Claude Ake, Prof John Mearsheimer, Prof Joseph Nye Jnr, Prof Samuel Huntington, Republic of China, United States of America, ‘Barrack culture’, ‘Social Science as imperialism’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja This is not a rejoinder to Prof Jibrin Ibrahim’s January 18th, 2024 opinion titled “The First Coup”. His opinion only serves this piece as the peg for a caution agains... Read more

How Bolshevism Built Modern Britain

Posted By: adminon: January 17, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Anglo-Marxism, Clement Attlee, George Bernard Shaw, Lloyd George’s Bolshevik bugbear., Marxist historians, Simon Webb’s 1919: Britain’s Year of Revolutions, Soviet communism, Vladimir Lenin, ‘The Rationalisation of Russia’No CommentsViews:

Lenin still haunts our welfare state, says the author, Pratinav Anil who wrote this piece originally for Unherd. Pratinav Anil is introduced by Unherd as the author of two bleak assessments... Read more

Plagiarism is Not a Sin: Claudine Gay’s Failure was Intellectual, Not Moral

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Harvard, MIT, Neri Oxman, Plagiarism, Prof Claudine Gay, University of PennsylvaniaNo CommentsViews:

The orthodoxy in academia is capital NO to plagiarism. But, in the essay below, Kathleen Stock who is introduced as a columnist for UnHerd; author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for... Read more

ABU, Zaria Probes Into Challenges of Quality Higher Education in Africa @ Its 60th Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: January 08, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, FGN, MacArthur Foundation, media, World BankNo CommentsViews:

Nearly everyone says university education in Nigeria is all about production and circulation of illiterates. The World Bank says so, the Nigerian Government is comfortable with that and most... Read more

Selling a US Steel to Japan’s NIPPON is Dangerous But Selling Ajaokuta is an Achievement in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: December 31, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: America’s industrial economy, Chinese subsidies, Economic nationalism, Foreign capital, Japan, NIPPON SteelNo CommentsViews:

Originally titled NIPPON’s Purchase of US Steel is a Dangerous Move, this piece draws attention again to the elite crisis of mission in Nigeria By Miquel Vila Nippon Steel’s bid to purchase... Read more

From Non-linear Tracking of Empire With a Question

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Critic, Critical, Critique, Empire, Entanglement, International Relations, Non-linearity, Opposition, Quantum social theory, ‘Officially Permitted Madness’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It is incredible how International Relations (IRs) is busy breaking down all the ‘China Walls’ and expanding into diverse realms of knowledge production, from the ‘linguistic... Read more

President George Weah’s Interim Farewell to Liberia

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Ambassador Joseph Boakai, Coalition for Democratic Change, Defeat of incumbent, Electoral democracy, Liberia, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

In a way, it can be called his farewell address to Liberians even as he remains in power till the hand over date. but he is already looking at 2029, thereby saying ‘till then’ The presidenti... Read more

Noo, Saro-Wiwa’s Daughter, Turns ‘China in Africa’ Into ‘Africa in China’

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: African passport, Black ghosts, Chinese racism, Jollof rice, Obi Okonkwo, People's Republic of China, Western passportNo CommentsViews:

Noo, late Saro-Wiwa’s daughter and an award winning author is doing wonders with words, turning a major global narrative 360 degrees. Hitherto, the biggest phenomenon in post-Cold War geopol... Read more