BRICS Archives - Intervention

Should Africa Fear Trump 2.0?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: 'Africa Rising', African actorness, BRICS, MAGA, Samuel HuntingtonNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Imagining Africa under Donald Trump as he took power today for another four years as president of the United States of America should be the most legitimate of all concerns.... Read more

What’s Gone Wrong with Nigeria’s Foreign Policy?

Posted By: adminon: January 20, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: AES, BRICS, Egypt, EthiopiaNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura Nigeria’s acceptance into the BRICS club as a *partner country* is a slap in the face for Nigerian leaders, the foreign policy establishment and citizens who believe that Ni... Read more

Prof. Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi, the Pathfinder and Mentor, is 83 Years Old!

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2025In: LifeworldTags: Babangida, BRICS, Economic diplomacy, Libya, Murtala/Obasanjo, NADECO, NIIA, NSIA, Prof Victor Adetula, Prof W O Alli, SAP, TAC, UI, UNILAG, USANo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, a renowned political scientist, administrator, public intellectual, and international relations’ expert, added another year to his age on January... Read more

Lenin Centenary International Conference Opens in Abuja January 22nd, 2024

Posted By: adminon: January 21, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Africa, APC, BRICS, Hegemony, Karl Marx, Left, Marxism – Leninism, Neoliberalism, PDP, Popular culture, Right, USSRNo CommentsViews:

Marxist-Leninist ideologues, radical activists, broad Leftists, researchers, politicians and sundry pundits are gathering at a 2-day critical celebration of Lenin’s Centenary at an Internati... Read more

Requiem for a Dying International Order

Posted By: adminon: October 14, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Anglo-American Empire, BRICS, De-dollarisation policy, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Historical Palestine, Israel, NATO, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, UNNo CommentsViews:

By Abubakar Aliyu Liman Scriptural discourses, characteristic of Abrahamic faith-systems, are replete with graphic allusions to Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Such narratives are i... Read more

Should Nigeria Pursue An Assertive Foreign Policy?

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: BRICS, Coup de’tat, ECOWAS, G5, Niger Republic, NIGERIA, North Africa, Sahel, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Nigeria’s participation in the recently held BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, had rekindled the debate about the country’s leadership role in... Read more

The Global South in the ‘New International Economic Order’: Fifty Years On

Posted By: adminon: September 25, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: 'Third World', BRICS, G-20, G-77/China, NAM, UNCTADNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki The 3rd Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Nations held in Lusaka, Zambia, in September 1970, and the Second Ministerial Meeting of the... Read more

Strategic Autonomy and the Global South in the Era of New Alignments in a Changing World

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: African Union, AUKUS, BRICS, EU, G-20, NAM, NATO, NIEO, NIIO, Warsaw PactNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Hegemonism has often created counter reactions in the realm of relations between and among states. The dismantling of the Warsaw Pact countries in 1989 and the subs... Read more

How South Africa, Not Nigeria, Got into BRICS

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: BRICS, BRICSAM, Confucius, G-7, G-9, Hindu Nationalism, IBSA, Jim O'Neil, NIGERIA, Orthodox Church, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

BRICS is in the news this week. For a long time to come, it will be in the news, more so for Africa. As the most unintended biting critique of the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ paradigm, the idea... Read more

Nigerian Marxists Plan Big on Centenary of Lenin’s Death

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, BRICS, Karl Marx, Marxism – Leninism, USSRNo CommentsViews:

Marxist – Leninists in Nigeria appear to be among the first set of the faithful across the world to announce a programme of commemoration of the centenary of the passing of Vladimir Le... Read more