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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
