The Dakar-based continental research institution, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), has a new Executive Secretary. He is Prof Zubairu Wai, a Sierra... Read more
The International Organisation for the Least Developed Countries (IOLDCs) has appointed Modibbo Adama University, Yola academic, Prof Chris Kwaja as its Senior Advisor for Africa. “Thi... Read more
A new edition of Walter Rodney’s highly popular text, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is on its way. It is due in September 2026. Verso, the London based publishing outfit, is issuing... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The 30 – page PDF text is already the subject of a thickening controversy in the US. So much that the Provost of Washington University, one of the two sponsor universities, M... Read more
It was an Inaugural Lecture with several differences. There was the fanfare which we can call the Baze University flavouring of the Inaugural Lecture tradition in academia. There was the roy... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The current edition of the Centre for World University Ranking (CWUR) named South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand (aka Wits) in Johannesburg as the number one univer... Read more
Something is happening to and in Africa that is not easy to characterise or that Intervention doesn’t have enough details to characterise. A set of African states – the three Sahelian... Read more
There is, indeed, radical contingency. Who would have known that a ruling Pope will be the ultimate nemesis of false emperors and professional dictators across the world? Well, in less than... Read more
Text: The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century Author: Prof Omotoye Olorode Pages: 78 Year: 2023 Publisher: CITAD, Kano Reviewer: Adagbo Onoja Like the banana tree which gets cut down... Read more
The Higher Education (THE) figures are showing a rise in the number of women academics mounting headship of global front-rank universities. In the age of the knowledge/power paradigm, that m... Read more
