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Botswana Ends America’s Decade-long Dominance in the 4×400 Men’s Relay

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Algerians, Botswana, Ethiopia, European or Saudi football clubs, Global sprinting, Kenya, Letsile Tebogo, Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith of Côte d’Ivoire, Moroccans, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, South African Zakithi Nene, Tanzanians, US anchor Rai BenjaminNo CommentsViews:
Botswana Ends America’s Decade-long Dominance in the 4x400 Men’s Relay

By Yusuf Bangura The 4×400 men’s relay was the most exhilarating event in the just-concluded World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Before the race started I was 100 percent convinced... Read more

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Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:
Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more

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Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

Posted By: adminon: March 27, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Botswana, Democracy in Africa, Department of Government, Ghana, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Okot p’Bitek, Political Science, Thomas Sankara, Zimbabwe, ‘Rhodes Must Fall’No CommentsViews:
Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

As is always the case and without being chauvinistic there, Nigeria tends to flash the signal or sound the alarm. On February 9th, 2018, it did so when an event on democracy turned into a cl... Read more

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Why Nigeria is Collapsing into Anomie – Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, NLC Gen. Secretary

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2018In: World From AfricaTags: Botswana, Deregulation, IMF, Malaysia, World BankNo CommentsViews:
Why Nigeria is Collapsing into Anomie – Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, NLC Gen. Secretary

By Adagbo Onoja This is a 2006 interview conducted and reported in The Nation where this reporter was the Managing Editor. It is reproduced here over a decade after because it is time someon... Read more

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Dangerous Moment for Mugabe?

Posted By: adminon: November 19, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Botswana, CHINA, Gen Chiwenga, JACOB ZUMA, SOUTH AFRICA, UK, USNo CommentsViews:
Dangerous Moment for Mugabe?

(Former) President Robert Mugbabe overthrown about a week ago might be running a risk by not resigning or accepting the option of stepping out to exile to provide for political settlement. T... Read more

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Explosive: Botswana Replays Murtala Mohammed’s ‘Africa Has Come of Age’ Tape for China

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Botswana, CHINA, Colony, Dalai Lama, In KhamaNo CommentsViews:
Explosive: Botswana Replays Murtala Mohammed's 'Africa Has Come of Age' Tape for China

The world woke up on August 17th, 2017 to an explosive interview reminiscent of Murtala Mohammed’s ‘Africa Has Come of Age’ speech in January 1976 at an extra-ordinary summ... Read more

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Why Buhari is Implicated in Insecurity in Nigeria – Prof. Shedrack Best, (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Abdulsalami, Aliyu Gusau, anti-corruption war, Botswana, geopolitical reading, Ghana, Goodluck Jonathan, Gowon, IBB, Messiah, Mohicans, Muti-Track Diplomacy model, NIGERIA, Propagandistic, Rwanda, TY Danjuma, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:
Why Buhari is Implicated in Insecurity in Nigeria – Prof. Shedrack Best, (Part 2)

Why Buhari is Implicated in Insecurity in Nigeria – Prof. Shedrack Best, (Part 2) By Adagbo ONOJA In the first part of this interview, Shedrack Best, a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studie... Read more

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Still, No Breakthrough on Development in Africa

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2016In: Governance, SpectacleTags: Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, IIAG, Libya, Mauritius, Namibia, NIGERIA, Seychelles, Somalia, SOUTH AFRICA, South SudanNo CommentsViews:
Still, No Breakthrough on Development in Africa

By Max Bearak   The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) — the most comprehensive survey of its kind — celebrated its 10th anniversary on Monday with the release of a report that... Read more

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End of An Era As Prof Adamu Baike Succumbs to Death @ 92
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The Passage of Comrade Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed
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