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When the Pope Reads the Riot Act!

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: 'violent turn' in capitalist accumulation, Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, Economic colonialism, Forgotten genocide, Political exploitation, Profit motive, War crimes, ‘A diamond of creation’, ‘A great confederacy of thieves’, ‘Diamonds are usually rare’, ‘Power is meaningful only if it becomes a form of service’, ‘Subjected to servile labour in the mines’, ‘The poison of greed’, ‘This diaphragm of Africa’No CommentsViews:
When the Pope Reads the Riot Act!

The Pope certainly has got no tanks or cruise missiles to strike at anyone but he is the unsurpassable Commander-in-Chief’ of metaphors, the most mobile army in the world. Papal deployment o... Read more

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Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the ‘ABU, Zaria School of History’

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Africa, Bala Usman, Dependency Theory, FASS, Ibadan School of History, Standpoint epistemology, Zaria School of HistoryNo CommentsViews:
Prof Abdullahi Mahdi and Memories of the 'ABU, Zaria School of History'

It is not possible to have read everything written on the death of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi but it may not be untrue to say more attention went to his flower flavouring of ABU, Zaria campus duri... Read more

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The Globalisation of Football is Closing Performance Gaps among Countries in the World Cup

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Europe, FIFA, France, Italy, Qatar World Cup, South America, UruguayNo CommentsViews:
The Globalisation of Football is Closing Performance Gaps among Countries in the World Cup

Having watched every World Cup tournament since 1970. Dr. Bangura can posit his never being as convinced as he is now after watching the Qatar World Cup that the domination of European and S... Read more

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The Absence of Black Players in the Argentine Team is Enigmatic

Posted By: adminon: December 04, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Afro-Argentine, Métisse, President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Whitening3 CommentsViews:
The Absence of Black Players in the Argentine Team is Enigmatic

In the age of inclusivity, Argentina’s one-culture national team is bound to come under interrogation by those who have vast affective investment in sports, particularly soccer as Dr.... Read more

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Christianity, Not Colonialists, Brought Modernity to West Africa – Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, the African Professor Against Decolonisation

Posted By: adminon: October 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Anthropology, Christianity, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Kant, ModernityNo CommentsViews:
Christianity, Not Colonialists, Brought Modernity to West Africa - Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, the African Professor Against Decolonisation

Apart from Queen Mary University of London’s Dr. Clive Gabay’s book, Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze, Prof Olufemi Taiwo’s book, Against Decolonisation must be the most cont... Read more

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How Did Nigeria Perform in the Just Released 2023 THE World University Ranking?

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Australia, CHINA, Oxford, SOAS, UI, UK, UNILAG, University of Cape Town, USNo CommentsViews:
How Did Nigeria Perform in the Just Released 2023 THE World University Ranking?

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

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Walter Rodney in the Battle of Memory

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2022In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Frantz Fanon, Latin America, North AmericaNo CommentsViews:
Walter Rodney in the Battle of Memory

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

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The Bridge That Can Tell the Future

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, CHINA, IMF, Xinhua, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:
The Bridge That Can Tell the Future

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

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2022 Ife Summer Institute for a Grand Opening Ceremony July 25th

Posted By: adminon: July 22, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Black Studies, Episteme, Ife Summer InstituteViews:
2022 Ife Summer Institute for a Grand Opening Ceremony July 25th

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

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Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, APC, Asia, CHINA, Cuba, Dr. Umaru Dikko, Fourth Republic, Francis Fukuyama, Illiberalism, Iran, Latin America, Margaret Thatcher, Middle East, MKO Abiola, PDPNo CommentsViews:
Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

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

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Participants Clash Over Anti-African Immigrants Violence in South Africa at CDD's 2026 Mandela Day in Nigeria (1)
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