The Times Higher Education, (THE), one of the six or so conducting its own world ranking of universities, is out with the 2023 exercise. There is nothing earth shaking in it as the United Ki... Read more
At the risk of looking back too much and continuing to stumble, this star studded reflection on Walter Rodney is what most would welcome. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, Rodney like Fanon... Read more
The cover picture is from Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, featuring President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia in Southern Africa (third from right). He was on tour of the Kafue Bulk Water Supply P... Read more
The campuses across Nigeria have remained shut since February 2022 but not all intellectual interactions are shut as well. Certainly not at the Obafemi Awolowo University at Ile-Ife in South... Read more
By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more
Yesterday, they were called leftists, communists, rebels and even rascals. Very shortly, they would be sworn-in to become president and Vice-President of Colombia, a historical about-turn of... Read more
By Catherine Grant, (Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK) & Kelley Sams (Assistant Professor, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine)... Read more
The Economic Commission for Africa, (ECA) is out with its own formal tribute to one of Africa’s sharpest voice in development matters: the late Prof Thandika Mkandawire who passed on March 2... Read more
It was not a case of all’s well that ends well at the 2022 International Labour Day in South Africa, one of the three countries generally regarded as the continent’s power houses. The ceremo... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura (Bangura.ym@gmail.com) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine marks a decisive end to the post-Cold War security regime that has governed the strained but stable relations between the... Read more
