When one looks at some of the criteria used in most of the ranking exercises, one could say it is not for African universities. A criterion such as the international character of a faculty o... Read more
It is time to get more insights into how well or not too well particular universities are teaching particular courses as QS World University Ranking releases its 2023 Subject Ranking. It is... Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
