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
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
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
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
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
With a record number of 50 countries across the world holding crucial elections in 2024 alone, it is not surprising if the world reactivate interest in this much contested concept. This is m... Read more
What exactly do scholars as a social category do to, for and/or against democracy? How do they do so in South Africa and in Europe as well as in the Americas? These are the posers the... Read more
Marxist-Leninist ideologues, radical activists, broad Leftists, researchers, politicians and sundry pundits are gathering at a 2-day critical celebration of Lenin’s Centenary at an Internati... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja The frightening powerlessness of all the centres of power in Nigeria in facing down equally frightening indicators of the catastrophic compels us to be interested in any and... Read more
Nearly everyone says university education in Nigeria is all about production and circulation of illiterates. The World Bank says so, the Nigerian Government is comfortable with that and most... Read more
