It is exactly 3 years today, May 29th, 2020 when Professor Abubakar Momoh died suddenly in 2017. He is still remembered across the many spaces he traversed as a scholar, activist and adminis... Read more
Two features distinguish this tribute to the departed Prof Thandika Mkandawire to warrant its republication here from the Inter-press service news agency which published it originally under... Read more
University of Ibadan political scientist, Prof Adigun Agbaje was a year older recently. It is either that he doesn’t particularly fancy the culture of elaborate festivities for a birthday or... Read more
The federal solution as a way out of the phenomenon of state collapse in Africa is echoing again as Prof Eghosa Osaghae, University of Ibadan and one of Nigeria’s leading scholars of federal... Read more
This is the second and concluding part of Yusuf Bangura’s tribute to Thandika Mkandawire with whom he worked closely for eleven years. It is the sort of stuff journalists like to call explos... Read more
Development-driven, Iconoclastic, Witty and Informal: Thinking About Thandika Mkandawire (1940-2020)
As long as the framing of the African crisis is what will tie together the three other forms of power to be mobilised for continental emancipation, so long will the loss of any of the analyt... Read more
As a one-time Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, (CODESRIA), the Malawi born Professor Thandika Mkandawire who passed on March 27th... Read more
It is turning out to be a wise saying that can probably not be over-used. That is the wisdom that the dead does not weep at his/her own funeral, popularised by the Tiv soloist on the air wav... Read more
Professor Chukwuka Okonjo, the immediate past Obi of Ogwashi Uku in Delta State was an atypical personality. He must, to date, be the only traditional ruler with a background of being a phil... Read more
This can only be a crude reporting of the impending sensation called Wombiture. Those curious about it would have to either travel to the University of Ibadan on September 25th, 2019 to list... Read more
