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A Vice-Chancellor for Oxford and Cambridge Universities

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Brexit, CHINA, COVID-19, Harvard University, UK, University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:

With both Oxford and Cambridge seeking new vice-chancellors, Rosa Ellis examines the unique pressures of leading these prestigious universities and the qualities that successful candidates w... Read more

The African World’s Debt to W.E.B. Du Bois

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Chairman Mao of China, CHINA, Double Consciousness, Dr. Nmandi Azikiwe, Jomo Kenyatta, Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta I have just finished reading David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of the African American intellectual and architect of the American Civil Rights Movement, Dr W.E.B. Du B... Read more

But for the EU, Africa Would Have Stabbed Her Own for WHO Job?

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: African agency, CHINA, COVID-19, EU, US, WHONo CommentsViews:

But for the European Union, (EU), Ethiopia’s Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus would not have been renominated for another term as Director-General of the World Health Organisation, (WHO). Reut... Read more

So, When Next You See Segun Odegbami, Remember to Call Him By His New Name and Title

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Bolaji Akinyemi, CHINA, Olympics, The PlatformNo CommentsViews:

By Segun Odegbami With gratitude to the Creator of the Universe, I have been very blessed. I am not a religious person in the classic sense of a person indoctrinated into certain strict beli... Read more

Guinea Coup Triggers Price Rise for Aluminium in the World Market

Posted By: adminon: September 06, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: CHINA, Guinea, Industrialisation, JPMorgan, Military Vanguardism, Transnational JihadismNo CommentsViews:

The coup in the West African State of Guinea yesterday is said to have escalated the price of Aluminum for which the country is the second world largest producer, others being China, Austral... Read more

US, UK Universities Still Lead the World in THE’s 2022 World University Ranking

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2021In: BookspaceTags: CHINA, Toronto, UCL, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

The world order might be changing but, as far as the knowledge-power nexus is concerned, the United States of America and the United Kingdom still have the largest number of the top scoring... Read more

How Africa Got It Wrong and Is Still Getting It All Wrong – Prof Chimalum Nwankwo

Posted By: adminon: August 08, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: CHINA, Colin Powell, Colonialism, Deconstruction, Early Warning, Literature, Marx, Nollywood, Okonkwo, Racism, Space ExplorationNo CommentsViews:

Concluding the Prof Chimalum Nwankwo interview is this installment, the first installment of which ran under the header: “The More Unstable Nigeria is, the Better for the West – Prof Chimalu... Read more

Israel Splits African Union?

Posted By: adminon: July 29, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: 'Africa Has Come of Age', African Union Commission, CHINA, Middle East, NATONo CommentsViews:

It was not expected that South Africa which fought a national liberation war to sit comfortably along with Zimbabwe, Namibia, Angola and Algeria, helplessly watching the AU operationalise it... Read more

Nigeria Completely Out of 2021 Global University Ranking Where China is Slugging It Out With the West

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Africa, CHINA, MIT, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

There is no knowing whether it is her internal bleeding or the criteria by which the QS ranking exercise is conducted that may explain why not a single university from Nigeria made it in the... Read more

Moving US Africa Command to Africa will not solve the continent’s security issues – Kester Onor

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, AFRICOM, CHINA, Russia, USNo CommentsViews:

Amidst something that looks like a retraction, the story has, however, gone far that Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, had asked asked the United States to move its military headquarter... Read more