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  • At 79, Angela Davis is Still Fighting for a Better World
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  • University of Mkar Interrogates IMF, World Bank and the Value of the Naira
  • Won’t Methodological Review Boards Threaten Scientific Creativity?
  • My Benin Republic ECOWAS Election Observation Mission (EOM) Experience, Lessons for Nigeria’s 2023 Elections
  • Presidential Candidates in Nigeria’s February 2023 Election to Appear on NIIA Platform
  • What Has This Thoroughfare Got to Do With February 2023 in Nigeria?
  • Reflections on the legacy of the Frankfurt School, 100 Years After
  • Could Prof Armstrong Matiu Adejo Have Died of Heart Attack?
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This Unbelievable Contrast Between Japan’s ‘Shinkansen’ and South Africa’s PRASA

Posted By: adminon: September 27, 2022In: SpectacleTags: ANC, Management, PRASA, Shinkansen, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:
This Unbelievable Contrast Between Japan’s 'Shinkansen' and South Africa’s PRASA

PRASA is, in this story, the African story of the attempt to modernize and is worth reflecting upon. The original title, “After its dramatic derailing, is it even possible for Prasa to get b... Read more

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COSATU Explains International Labour Day Crack in South Africa.

Posted By: adminon: May 03, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, ANC, COSATU, President Cyril RamaphosaNo CommentsViews:
COSATU Explains International Labour Day Crack in South Africa.

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

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In the Aftermath of Mbeki’s Decapitating Testimony on Obasanjo’s ‘Third Term’

Posted By: adminon: November 28, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: ANC, Dr. Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, G-7/8, Genral Abdulsalama Abubakar, JACOB ZUMA, Neoliberalism, Postapartheid, Prof Richard Peet, Third TermNo CommentsViews:
In the Aftermath of Mbeki's Decapitating Testimony on Obasanjo's 'Third Term'

No one can guestimate what the degree of damage to Obasanjo’s standing Thabo Mbeki’s disclosure of Obasanjo’s complicity in the ‘third term’ agenda would be if the disclosure had come earlie... Read more

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Jonas Gwangwa, Another Anti-Apartheid Icon Goes Down in South Africa, Given State Burial

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2021In: LifeworldTags: ANC, BBC, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Hugh Masekela, Morwa, Oliver Tambo, ZANU-PF, ‘Order of Ikhamanga’No CommentsViews:
Jonas Gwangwa, Another Anti-Apartheid Icon Goes Down in South Africa, Given State Burial

Perhaps, lost in her own troubles, Nigeria has not been able to catch on with the death of Jonas Gwangwa, South African jazz musician and anti-apartheid fighter. But the BBC did not miss it,... Read more

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Bill Freund: Historian, Africanist, Intellectual

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2020In: LifeworldTags: Ahmadu Bello University, ANC, Dar es Salam, The Making of Contemporary Africa, University of KwaZuluNatal, WiSERNo CommentsViews:
Bill Freund: Historian, Africanist, Intellectual

By Shireen Hassim Bill Freund was a Marxist historian in method, attentive to political economy and to the material underpinnings of power, while retaining a critical distance to Marxism Bil... Read more

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Bill Freund (1944-2020): Pioneering economic historian of Africa and South Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2020In: LifeworldTags: ABU Zaria, ANC, Chicago, SOAS, SOUTH AFRICA, UKZN, Yale UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Bill Freund (1944-2020): Pioneering economic historian of Africa and South Africa

By Robert Morrell• On Monday, 17 August, Bill Freund died in Durban. He was 76 years old. He was among the most eminent of South Africa’s historians and published prodigiously broadly in the... Read more

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Federal Solution Best Option Out of State Collapse in Africa – Prof Eghosa Osaghae

Posted By: adminon: April 24, 2020In: BookspaceTags: ANC, Australia, Canada, CODESRIA, Ethiopia, SOUTH AFRICA, UCT, UI, USANo CommentsViews:
Federal Solution Best Option Out of State Collapse in Africa – Prof Eghosa Osaghae

The federal solution as a way out of the phenomenon of state collapse in Africa is echoing again as Prof Eghosa Osaghae, University of Ibadan and one of Nigeria’s leading scholars of federal... Read more

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Flashback to the Mandela Moment in ‘the Power of Words in International Relations’

Posted By: adminon: September 21, 2019In: BookspaceTags: ANC, Arafat, Castro, Cuba, Gaddafi, Libya, PLO, Power, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:
Flashback to the Mandela Moment in 'the Power of Words in International Relations'

It is absolutely regrettable that there is black violence against African migrants in South Africa but that is something the African determination to survive can and should be able to manage... Read more

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Multivocal Convulsions as Intellectuals, IGP, INEC, Others Deconstruct Nigeria’s 2019 Elections @ UI Confab

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2019In: SpectacleTags: ANC, Biometrics, Biopolitics, Governmentality, Neoliberalism, Proportional RepresentationNo CommentsViews:
Multivocal Convulsions as Intellectuals, IGP, INEC, Others Deconstruct Nigeria’s 2019 Elections @ UI Confab

The ancient South-western Nigerian city of Ibadan woke up today to an explosive conversation as top flight intellectuals, the Inspector-General of Police, the Independent National Electoral... Read more

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Any Connection Between the Return of Incumbent Presidents/PM in Nigeria, South Africa and India?

Posted By: adminon: May 30, 2019In: World From AfricaTags: ANC, GEAR, Hindu Nationalism, India, Narenda Modi, RDPNo CommentsViews:
Any Connection Between the Return of Incumbent Presidents/PM in Nigeria, South Africa and India?

The dynamics have worked out in such a way incumbent presidents and the prime minister returned to power in recent elections in Nigeria, South Africa and India. Could the election results sp... Read more

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Memories of the Old Academia As Plateau State University Awards Prof Elaigwu Honorary Degree
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