CHINA Archives - Intervention

See How Older Men and Women Have Taken Over the World

Posted By: adminon: November 21, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Angela Alvarez, Brazil, CHINA, Latin Grammy, Malaysia, NIGERIA, RussiaNo CommentsViews:

Officially, age is a protected characteristic, meaning that it is out of sync to go about asking people about their age as a requirement for this or that. But that is the official narrative.... Read more

How Did Nigeria Perform in the Just Released 2023 THE World University Ranking?

Posted By: adminon: October 12, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Africa, Australia, CHINA, Oxford, SOAS, UI, UK, UNILAG, University of Cape Town, USNo CommentsViews:

The Times Higher Education, (THE), one of the six or so conducting its own world ranking of universities, is out with the 2023 exercise. There is nothing earth shaking in it as the United Ki... Read more

The Bridge That Can Tell the Future

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, CHINA, IMF, Xinhua, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:

The cover picture is from Chinese News Agency, Xinhua, featuring President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia in Southern Africa (third from right). He was on tour of the Kafue Bulk Water Supply P... Read more

Democracy, Populism or Revolution: Options Towards A New World Order

Posted By: adminon: August 05, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: #EndSARS, Arab Spring, BLM, CHINA, Churchill, Peter Drucker, Russia, The Bastille Prison, The Rajapaska dynasty, the “Butcher of the Congo”, Trumpism, “Yellow Vest”No CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki The storming of the Presidential Palace in Colombo by thousands of Sri Lankans last month brings to mind the historic storming of the Bastille Prison outside Paris... Read more

Irreversibly Damaged ‘Rain Maker’ Or Will the Sun Shine Again for the Lion of Bourdillion?

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Aradite, Atiku Abubakar, Chief Bode George, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, CHINA, Muslim-Muslim ticket, Peter Obi, Russia, The Western world, Transformation Agenda, ‘Astronomer’s calamity’, ‘Rain maker’No CommentsViews:

By his self-understanding as a lion in the Nigerian political forest, the past one week must have come to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a shock. The lion is rarely caught off-guard or easily messed... Read more

Commodification of Elective Offices and Democratisation in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 10, 2022In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, APC, Asia, CHINA, Cuba, Dr. Umaru Dikko, Fourth Republic, Francis Fukuyama, Illiberalism, Iran, Latin America, Margaret Thatcher, Middle East, MKO Abiola, PDPNo CommentsViews:

By Aminu Habibu Jahun Slightly over two decades after the take-off of the Fourth Republic, democratic rule has been so grotesquely disfigured in the hands of a few ‘democratic suitors... Read more

Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Bushmeat, CHINA, COVID-19, Disease X, Ebola, RCCE, WHONo CommentsViews:

By Catherine Grant, (Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK) & Kelley Sams (Assistant Professor, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine)... Read more

An Insight Into University Life in North Korea

Posted By: adminon: May 26, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Alek Sigley, CHINA, KIS, PUST, Russia, South Korea, “Kwangmyong”No CommentsViews:

Times Higher Education, (THE) offers us an insight into university life in North Korea in this report originally published Is academic life in North Korea as strange and difficult as you thi... Read more

The Nemesis of Europe

Posted By: adminon: April 22, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: CHINA, David Ijalaye, DRC, NATO, United Nations, Vladimir Putin1 CommentViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq War in Ukraine continues to attract diverse opinions as in this below: Europe is in turmoil as Ukraine is turned into rubble under siege by Russian missiles and tanks. ... Read more

Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?

Posted By: adminon: April 16, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Bernie Sanders, CHINA, Classical libealism, Cold War, Collapse of Communism, Globalisation, IT Revolution, New Left, Soviet UnionNo CommentsViews:

Neoliberalism can be so complicated as for many to conclude that only French Philosopher, Michel Foucault and British Marxist Geographer and foremost theorist of concept, David Harvey, under... Read more