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Combating Eurocentrism, Reinscribing Imperialist Cartography in African Scholarship

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Eurocentrism, Hegemony, Postcolonialism, Posthumanism, PoststructuralismNo CommentsViews:
Combating Eurocentrism, Reinscribing Imperialist Cartography in African Scholarship

Reproduced from E-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS where it was originally published, this piece argues against the observable hostility to the ‘posts’ family among African scholars, pointing out the... Read more

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Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

Posted By: adminon: September 08, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: 'Accumulation by Dispossession', Africa, ASUU, CDD, Development, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Kenneth Waltz, Marx and Engels, NPSA, Political Science, Prof Claude Ake, The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room; ThatcherismNo CommentsViews:
Two Years to 30th Anniversary of His Demise, Can Africa Re-engage Claude Ake?

By Adagbo Onoja A flight into academicism on the late Prof Claude Ake at this point in time could be validly charged with insensitivity and irresponsibility to the psychological and material... Read more

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Ngugi wa Thiong’o Spearheads Dismantling Language Empires

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Achebe, Africa, African universities, Colonialists, Igbo, Irish nationalism, Joyce, Kenya, Toyin Falola, Yoruba, Zulu, ‘Nobel of the heart’No CommentsViews:
Ngugi wa Thiong’o Spearheads Dismantling Language Empires

Age and nasty experiences in the recent past are not slowing down Ngugi Wa Thiongo, the Kenyan writer. He is still taking the fight to Africa’s conquerors, this time revisiting his insistenc... Read more

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How Mandela Triggered Xin Yi Lim of the University of Toronto Into a Polyglot Extraordinary

Posted By: adminon: August 07, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Multilingual talent, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:
How Mandela Triggered Xin Yi Lim of the University of Toronto Into a Polyglot Extraordinary

The University of Toronto’s Arts and Science News as well as the university Bulletin inform their readers on Xin Yi Lim as one of its students who is distinguished by ability to speak eleven... Read more

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In Onyeka Onwenu, Nigeria, Africa and the World Lost an Artist

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, Africa, Descartes, Fanon, Hegel, Individuality, Joyce, Marx, NIGERIA, Onyeka Onwenu, Shakespeare, The worldNo CommentsViews:
In Onyeka Onwenu, Nigeria, Africa and the World Lost an Artist

Artists and philosophers do not die. The world is still quoting Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Shakespeare, Joyce, Achebe, Fanon and so on because they have set the terms of the conversation throug... Read more

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The UK election: new development priorities in Africa?

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Cimate change, DFID, Keir Starmer, Labour Party manifestoNo CommentsViews:
The UK election: new development priorities in Africa?

What could be in the  recent UK election for Africa is a contextually legitimate question to ask as I an Scoones of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex does in t... Read more

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African Leaders and Their Imported Dilemma From Disciplinary Neoliberalism

Posted By: adminon: June 30, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Disciplinary neoliberalism, IMF reform package, Kenya, New York Times, Wild taxesNo CommentsViews:
African Leaders and Their Imported Dilemma From Disciplinary Neoliberalism

President William Ruto of Kenya must still be trying to make sense of the anger of his population against wild taxes (started since 2023). Imposed as part of the usual IMF reform package and... Read more

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Remembering Dr. Walter Rodney

Posted By: adminon: May 01, 2024In: FlashbackTags: "Guerilla intellectual”, Africa, CIA, Dr Walter Rodney, Europe, GuyanaNo CommentsViews:
Remembering Dr. Walter Rodney

By Saleh Bature What Dr. Walter Rodney said about a America over 40 years ago is like a prophesy fulfilled.  In his famous book titled, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Dr.  Rodney wrote, “... Read more

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Prof. William Alade Fawole, the Foreign Policy Scholar and Activist, Retires from OAU, Ile-Ife

Posted By: adminon: April 09, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, ASUU, George Washington University, International Relations, Nigerian foreign policy, OAU Ile-IfeNo CommentsViews:
Prof. William Alade Fawole, the Foreign Policy Scholar and Activist, Retires from OAU, Ile-Ife

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The University of Ife, now OAU, holds a lot of significance for the study of International Relations in Nigeria. It was from there that the discipline has spread to o... Read more

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The End of the Western Democracy Project in Africa

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Autocratic rule, Deglobalisation, Democracy promotion, Democratic backsliding, ECOWAS, EU, Latin America, People's Republic of China, Russia, the West, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
The End of the Western Democracy Project in Africa

By Yusuf Bangura The optimism of the 1990s, which saw a massive rollback of autocratic regimes in favour of electoral democracy, has given way to pessimism about democracy’s continued spread... Read more

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