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
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
Nigeria is again, caught in a deep and troubling state of affairs, spanning a thick judicial tussle; a severe crisis of cost of living, violent forms of accumulation such as violent extracti... Read more
COVID-19 has, so far been dominated by the medical dimension of it. It will not be long before the geopolitical reasoning and practices around it will follow. That will even be hotter than t... Read more
A big drama is, indeed, playing out in Brazil, with world scale significance. The release of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from prison is the crashing of a strategy of undermining what he repres... Read more
October 1st has the same significance for both China and Nigeria. It is their Independence Day, 1949 for China and 1960 for Nigeria. It means that China is older by eleven (11) years. Eleven... Read more
Africa has not seen the last of the rush of global powers for her embrace. ‘China in Africa’ has been the controversy in that rush, especially for the Americans who say China is in Africa fo... Read more
Kenya’s Nanjala Nyabola, Nigeria’s Chimamanda Adichie, Kenya’s James Michira and the best known of them all, Kenya’s Binyavanga Wainaina, have all struck global chords in protesting the cont... Read more
In a world of images, what a better way of narrating the world with different images, each of which is performative of the world in its own way! Beginning with some of the faces at the Augus... Read more
Published originally in The Conversation online (Nov 20th, 2016) under the title “Brazil is breaking with its south-south focus. What it means for BRICS”, this piece hints about... Read more
