AU Archives - Intervention

Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: AD, Afe Babalola University, Africa betrayed, Angola, AU, BUK, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Colonialism, Ibrahim Babangida military administration, MAMSER, NPSA, PDP, Political Science, SDP, UI, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Introduction This tribute is a unique one, and it departs from my usual tributes. It is done in the context of a new book written on the celebrant, who has requested tha... Read more

Prof Tunde Adeniran, Our Teacher, Scholar, Politician and Foreign Policy Expert, is 80 Years Old

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: People in ActionTags: AD, Afe Babalola University, Africa betrayed, Angola, AU, BUK, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Colonialism, Ibrahim Babangida military administration, MAMSER, NPSA, PDP, Political Science, SDP, UI, Western powersNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Introduction This tribute is a unique one, and it departs from my usual tributes. It is done in the context of a new book written on the celebrant, who has requested tha... Read more

Nigeria’s Retreat from Constructive Engagement in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict

Posted By: adminon: September 21, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, Arab-Israeli war, AU, Colonialism, Global South, Late President Yasser Arafat, Middle East, PLONo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki “We are watching the strangulation of 2 million people, 61,000 of them have already died. It’s disgraceful and disgusting. History will judge, history w... Read more

Stop the Constitutional Coup in Senegal – African Intellectuals, Activists Tell Senegalese President

Posted By: adminon: February 08, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: African intellectuals, AU, Civil society activists, ECOWAS, Electoral Hub, President Macky Sall, Senegalese people, UNNo CommentsViews:

There has been a blistering rebuke for President Macky Sall of Senegal for staging a constitutional coup by sacking opposition members of parliament in that country and embarking on unconsti... Read more

Sierra Leonean Government Gets Disappointing Rating in Crisis Management

Posted By: adminon: August 14, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Africans, Asians, AU, Developmental dictatorship, ECOWAS, Highhandedness, Julius Mada Bio, Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Security sector reform, Sierra LeoneNo CommentsViews:

Reports from Sierra Leone is indicating colossal failure in handling the revolt that jolted the country, Africa and the world all of last week. Well located sources and major global media ou... Read more

Managing Elections, Democracy and Development Towards Political Stability in Africa (2)

Posted By: adminon: February 15, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Accountable government, AU, Democratic rule, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Returning to the issue of elections in Africa and the entrenchment of credible democratic governance across the continent has become unavoidable especially in the w... Read more

Managing Elections, Democracy and Development Towards Political Stability in Africa

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: AGA, APRM, AU, Coups, ECOWAS, Elections, NEPADNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Political stability does not fall from Heaven like manna or rain. It is brought about by perceptive deliberations regarding the organisation of society and the dete... Read more

Is Africa Back to Another Round of the Coup Syndrome of the Mid 1960s Or What?

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: AU, Cold War, ECOWAS, Global war on terror, Military dictatorship, UNNo CommentsViews:

Soldiers toppling civilian leaders across Africa was a very regular thing in the mid-1960s and thereafter. In the post Cold War, there was a thaw as popular interests took on military dictat... Read more

Where is the African Union As Africa Descends Into War Again?

Posted By: adminon: November 27, 2020In: De-EscalationTags: AU, EPRDF, genocide, The Horn, TPLFNo CommentsViews:

It is 26 years now since University of Ibadan scholar, Prof Eghosa Osaghae, posed the touching question in a memorable essay titled “The Persistence of Conflict in Africa: Conflict Managemen... Read more

The Soyinka Gaze on June 12

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2018In: GovernanceTags: AU, COJANo CommentsViews:

Originally titled “June 12: The Mandate”, this speech was prepared by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka for the June 12th, 2018 conferment of national honours on Chief MKO Abiola and others. It is... Read more