Africa | Intervention

A Divided Africa on France and the Sahelian States on Display?

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, France, Peace maker, President Ruto of Kenya, Three Sahelian statesNo CommentsViews:

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

Pope Leo XIV, the Moral Warrior Dictators and Trouble Makers Did Not Anticipate!

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 'Clash of Civilisations', 'Emperors', Africa, Colonialism, Dictators, DRC, Eseentialism, Pope Leo XIVNo CommentsViews:

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

Situating Prof Omotoye Olorode’s ‘The Demands of Scholarship in the 21st Century’

Posted By: adminon: March 20, 2026In: BookspaceTags: 21st century, Africa, ASUU, FG, International Relations, Marxism, NUC, Ontology, Scholarship, World BankNo CommentsViews:

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

Women Leadership of Front-rank Global Universities On the Rise

Posted By: adminon: March 18, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Gender equity, Global front - rank universities, People's Republic of ChinaNo CommentsViews:

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

The World Mourns Jurgen Habermas

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2026In: People in ActionTags: Africa, CIA, Deliberative democracy, Fascism, Frankfurt scholars, Gramsci, Hegel, Jacques Derrida, Kant, Marx, Nazism, OSS, Post-Marxism, ThatcherNo CommentsViews:

The Habermasian imaginary has come to an end with the death of German philosopher and theorist, Jurgen Habermas Saturday, March 14th, 2026. He was 96 years old. At 96, he has so much to be g... Read more

Bingham University Holds International Conference on Climate Change and Insecurity April 2026

Posted By: adminon: March 15, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Climate Change, Conflict, Crisis of Governance, Development, Diplomacy, insecurity, NAM, PEACE, Plural Studies, Political instability, South- South, TerrorismNo CommentsViews:

Bingham University in Karu, near Abuja, Nigeria is keeping its promise of being a debating space. Its Ambassador Bulus Lolo Centre for Diplomacy, Conflict, Peace and Plural Studies is up wit... Read more

NIIA Plumbs Deeper, Simulates Global Geopolitical Shifts

Posted By: adminon: March 03, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, AU, BRICS, Great power, Iran, Israel, Medium powers, NIIA, NPSA, Political Science, Prime Minister Mark Carney, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, Ukraine, USANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) might be plumbing into raising the stakes in think tanking the international. For its impending Lecture Series, it is not only aggregat... Read more

NIIA’s Foreign Policy Lecture Tackles Elections-Democracy Puzzle in Africa

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Civil society, Elections, Liberal democracy, NIIANo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) promises an interesting encounter with the unpacking of the elections-democracy puzzle in Africa Friday, February 6th, 2026. That is wh... Read more

Nigeria Police Goes Think tanking @ NIIA

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2026In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, insecurity, Nigeria Police, NIIA, Peace process, ReflexivityNo CommentsViews:

There is something paradoxical, on the face of it, for the Nigeria Police to be privileging its actorness in continental peace works when generalised insecurity is tearing Nigeria apart. Bu... Read more

A Mourning Note on Arthur Mbanefo, the Just Departing Odu of Onitsha

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Amb Tanko Suleiman, America, Apa State, Asia, Dr. Edwin Ogbu, French, G-8, Obama, OBASANJO, PR, Protocol, Queen Elizabeth 11, Russia, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria is not a merit-based system. The meritorious fellow is whoever the government of the day defines as such, irrespective of how distinguished the other guy is. Arthur M... Read more