The panoptic practice of producing ‘good’ citizens through surveillance but by which great powers have brought the entire world within the panoptic radius of state power has suffered a setba... Read more
Is it possible that the DSS might also be insensitive to its own institutional image as to get involved in the turbulent politics of meaning? It is true that, at the end of the day, intellig... Read more
All eyes are on the Northern elite again. Provoked this time by the generalized insecurity that has seized the country, the representational turbulence has seen pundits, critics and sundry a... Read more
It has been a week of different strokes of Africa’s nightmare of a life. While it came in the form of reflective mourning and a defiant ‘Never Again’ in Rwanda 25 years aft... Read more
It is bad times for spy agencies across the world, including Nigeria’s Directorate of State Security, (DSS). The DSS’s hassles at home are coming at a time of multiple challenges for that re... Read more
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu* The city of Brussels has named a public square in honor of Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the independence struggle and first prime minister of the Democratic Republi... Read more
Although Donald Trump has been persuaded by his own staff and Latin American leaders from an invasion of Venezuela nearly a year ago, Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro is not taking the t... Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari is now saying that the killings that have been going on especially across Benue, Taraba states, Southern and Northern, (Birnin Gwari) Kaduna in Kaduna State and Za... Read more
This is a slightly updated version of an earlier one arising from a major spelling error and the imperative for a reference to the earlier such book in South Africa – Editor The repres... Read more
By Gregory Elich This week’s edition of Pambazuka Online is a loaded one, devoted almost entirely to Zimbabwe. This piece, for example, has been written by someone who, by the introduction b... Read more
