‘Africa Rising’ | Intervention

Any Signs of Tajudeen Abdulraheem’s Successor As Africa’s 1st President, 17 Years After His Demise?

Posted By: adminon: May 25, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 'Africa Rising', Africa Renaissance, Africa’s ‘Aljazeera’, Ali Mazrui, CDD-WA, Frantz Fanon Centenary, Mo Ibrahim, NEPAD, President John Mahama of Ghana, Prof Abubakar Momoh, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Segun Osoba, Thabo Mbeki, ‘African Conundrum’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA In late November 2025, the CDD-West Africa marked the Centenary of Frantz Fanon in Jos, Nigeria. The Centenary was thematised ‘Fanon and the African Condition; 100 Year... Read more

Should Africa Fear Trump 2.0?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: 'Africa Rising', African actorness, BRICS, MAGA, Samuel HuntingtonNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Imagining Africa under Donald Trump as he took power today for another four years as president of the United States of America should be the most legitimate of all concerns.... Read more

Imagining the Emancipatory Promise of Popular Geopolitics for Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 10, 2020In: BookspaceTags: 'A scar on the conscience of the world', 'Africa Rising', 'CNN Effect', AfCFTA, DONALD TRUMP, Global Governance, Gramsci, HegemonyNo CommentsViews:

Extracted from the website of the Global Governance Institute of the University College London where it was originally published, January 10th, 2020 (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/global-governance/... Read more

Oxford University Returns to ‘Africa Rising’ Debate

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2018In: BookspaceTags: 'Africa Rising', 'Heart of Darkness', 'Hopeful Africa', 'Hopeless Continent'No CommentsViews:

‘Africa Rising’ is returning to the global public sphere. It has never really been a settled issue or ever off the debating agenda but this time, an African scholar of global tentacles has a... Read more

The Book on the Big Question of All Time

Posted By: adminon: February 27, 2018In: BookspaceTags: 'Africa Rising', 'Heart of Darkness', 'Imaginative Geographies', BRICS, OrientalismNo CommentsViews:

Kenya’s Nanjala Nyabola, Nigeria’s Chimamanda Adichie, Kenya’s James Michira and the best known of them all, Kenya’s Binyavanga Wainaina, have all struck global chords in protesting the cont... Read more

Editorial: Dancing for Chibok Girls and Ugbokolo But How Could Ugbokolo Been Possible?

Posted By: adminon: May 07, 2017In: De-EscalationTags: 'Africa Rising', 'Agolo', Angelique Kidjo, Benue State Government, Chibok girls, DSSS, EDEMA, Father Adeyi, Newsdiaryonline, Okpoga, Sambisa ForestNo CommentsViews:

The day another set of Chibok girls regain life and the Nigeria Police return to Ugbokolo in Benue State to confront rampaging gangsters is certainly the sort of day that one should listen a... Read more

Global Media (Mis) Representation of Africa: Is Martin Scott Bursting a Myth or Inventing Another?

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'Africa Rising', Dr Martin Scott, Leeds University, Misrepresentation, New York Times, Olatunji Ogunyemi, Stanford University, The Economist, The Guardian, Toussaint Nothias, University of East AngliaNo CommentsViews:

Global Media (Mis) Representation of Africa: Is Martin Scott Bursting a Myth or Inventing Another? By Adagbo ONOJA In the context of the fear that an African protestation of misrepresentatio... Read more