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Who is Being Prepared to Thrive in a Multipolar University?

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Asia, Australia, Canada, EU, Global South, Iran, Japan, Manhattan Project, Middle East, MIT, Patrice Lumumba University, Russia, Singapore, The Humboldtian model, The Manhattan Project, UK, US, Western EuropeNo CommentsViews:

By Carlos Vargas The received story about global higher education goes like this: for most of the 20th century, knowledge flowed outwards from a small number of research-intensive universi... Read more

Towards a Nigeria Resilience and Peace Facility

Posted By: adminon: July 12, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Abdul Samad Rabiu African Initiative (ASR Africa), African Union Peace Fund, APSA, Continental Early Warning System, Dangote Foundation, EU, Tony Elumelu Foundation, TY Danjuma Foundation, USIPNo CommentsViews:

By Chris Kwaja Recall that the African Union Peace Fund was established as part of the broader African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) that, together with the PSC, the African Standby... Read more

The End of the Western Democracy Project in Africa

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Autocratic rule, Deglobalisation, Democracy promotion, Democratic backsliding, ECOWAS, EU, Latin America, People's Republic of China, Russia, the West, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura The optimism of the 1990s, which saw a massive rollback of autocratic regimes in favour of electoral democracy, has given way to pessimism about democracy’s continued spread... Read more

Strategic Autonomy and the Global South in the Era of New Alignments in a Changing World

Posted By: adminon: September 13, 2023In: GovernanceTags: African Union, AUKUS, BRICS, EU, G-20, NAM, NATO, NIEO, NIIO, Warsaw PactNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Hegemonism has often created counter reactions in the realm of relations between and among states. The dismantling of the Warsaw Pact countries in 1989 and the subs... Read more

My Quick Take on the Provisional Results of the 2021 Mid-Term Census Results in Sierra Leone

Posted By: adminon: June 03, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: All People’s Congress, EU, Proportional Representation, Sierra Leone People’s Party, Sierra Leoneans, Statistics – Sierra Leone, World BankNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura, (PhD) The provisional results of the 2021 Mid-Term census recently released by Statistics -Sierra Leone have raised eyebrows among Sierra Leoneans. According to the results... Read more

The End of US Triumphalism and Return of Realpolitik

Posted By: adminon: March 09, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: EU, France 24, Iran, Sanctions, US, VenezuelaNo CommentsViews:

By Dr. Yusuf Bangura I have been following debates on the economic dimensions of the Ukraine crisis on France 24 since the Russian invasion of that country. France 24 does a good job of brin... Read more

China As Peacemaker in Ukraine Conflict?

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Afghanistan, Africa, ASEAN, Brazil, CHINA, EU, India, Iraq, Losers, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, WinnersNo CommentsViews:

If what the highly influential and London based Financial Times is reporting is anything to go by, then the world might have found in China the global player which can undergird a peace proc... 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

The Choice Before Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: APC, EU, Rwandan genocide, UK, ‘3 R’No CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq In one of his majestic endorsement of the multivocal imperative, the late Chinua Achebe compared wisdom to a goatskin bag: everyone carries his or her own. This essay is... Read more

Who is Afraid of Putting Out the Fire Between Israelis and the Palestinians?

Posted By: adminon: May 16, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Conflict, EU, Hamas, Power, UNNo CommentsViews:

It has been a week of horror for global justice and peace minded humanity as Israel and the Palestine returns to violence. The Washington Post was so precise as to speak of the Palestinians... Read more