Africa | Intervention

How to Take Nigerian Universities to World Class Universities Again

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Analyticism, Critical realism, Deconstruction, Edward Said, International Relations, Marxism, Neopositivism, NUC, PhD, Post-positivism, Postmodernism, Rationalism, Reflexivity, ‘Cartesian anxiety’No CommentsViews:

Intervention’s commitment to emancipation compels it to keep an eye on knowledge production, knowledge being a form of representation and representation being a form of power vis-à-vis emanc... Read more

Cuba Does It Again, Beats US, Other Wealthy Nations To It

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, COVID-19, Cuba, Intellectual property rights, US, WHONo CommentsViews:

Cuba has done it again. It has vaccinated 90% of the population according to a widely circulating story, (TheHill, for example). Cuba created multiple Covid-19 vaccines in addition to aggres... Read more

See What a Mess We Have Made of Democracy, in Nigeria – CISLAC

Posted By: adminon: December 10, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Constitutional democracy, Coups, President BuhariNo CommentsViews:

“Democracy, the world over, faces intractable challenges that threaten the fundamental freedoms and the promise of development that were once considered the key signposts of democracy. In Af... Read more

No Matter How Risky, Those Left Behind By Development Must ‘Innovate’ to Survive

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Cameroons, Dependency, DRC, Globalisation, UnderdevelopmentNo CommentsViews:

The cover picture has written the story, all by itself. It is a pleasurable, even if risky response to the stressful and incomplete modernisation across Africa. There are no roads, especiall... Read more

Can the Global Subalterns Speak on Climate Change? Yes, They Can!

Posted By: adminon: November 05, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Carnegie Foundation, Climate ChangeNo CommentsViews:

Bogged down at home by coping with banditry, kidnappers, terrorists, secession campaigners, high degree of corruption, overwhelmed leadership, elite fragmentation, election rigging, rising p... Read more

China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: 'Century of humiliation', Africa, Communist Party of China, Marxism, US, west, ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’No CommentsViews:

The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party is providing China a strategic opportunity for the rhetorical offensive, this time playing up its clean record as far as colonising others is con... Read more

Wither Africa, Indeed!

Posted By: adminon: June 19, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Tanzania, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:

In the cover picture of this spectacle are (L-R), the late Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. They are all gone as at today. In the second... Read more

Nigeria Completely Out of 2021 Global University Ranking Where China is Slugging It Out With the West

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Africa, CHINA, MIT, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

There is no knowing whether it is her internal bleeding or the criteria by which the QS ranking exercise is conducted that may explain why not a single university from Nigeria made it in the... Read more

If Dr. Ibrahim Tahir Were Still Here

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Africa, ANPP, De Gaulle, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, EFCC, OBASANJO, PDP, Singapore, The Last Imam, Third TermNo CommentsViews:

He would have been the one voice both his admirers and those who did not admire him would have loved to hear today at a time of grave existential challenges to Nigerians and Nigeria. But he... Read more

Europe Begins Reparations to Africa @ Last as Germany Pays Namibia $1.3bn for Colonial Aggression

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Britain, CNN, France, Germany, Herero, Namibia, Portugal, RwandaNo CommentsViews:

Europe is turning on itself on its colonial baggage by paying for colonial crimes. Although this wave is beginning with Germany recognising and paying for genocidal annihilation of the Here... Read more