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New Edition of Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ Coming

Posted By: adminon: June 24, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Angela Davis, Europe, Neoliberalism, Verso, Walter RodneyNo CommentsViews:
New Edition of Walter Rodney's 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' Coming

A new edition of Walter Rodney’s highly popular text, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is on its way. It is due in September 2026. Verso, the London based publishing outfit, is issuing... Read more

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Controversy Thickens Over ‘Boghossian Report’ on the Humanities And Social Sciences in the US

Posted By: adminon: June 21, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Africa, Anthropology, Europe, Evidence, Knowledge, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Postmodernism, Prof Paul Boghossian, Relativism, Truth, Washington UniversityNo CommentsViews:
Controversy Thickens Over ‘Boghossian Report’ on the Humanities And Social Sciences in the US

By Adagbo Onoja The 30 – page PDF text is already the subject of a thickening controversy in the US. So much that the Provost of Washington University, one of the two sponsor universities, M... Read more

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Morocco Knocks South Africa Off Top Spot as Africa’s Leading Industrial Economy

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: 2025 Africa Industrialisation Index, AfCFTA, Central Africa, East Africa, Europe, Middle East, West AfricaNo CommentsViews:
Morocco Knocks South Africa Off Top Spot as Africa’s Leading Industrial Economy

Is it possible that Africa has broken out of its ‘no-show’ status in industrialisation at last? Well, that is exactly what Business Insider is reporting. As pleasantly surprising as that is... Read more

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Shorten UK Undergraduate Degrees to Just Two Years, Says VC

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Anthony Finkelstein, City St George’s University of London, Europe, Scotland, UK undergraduate degrees, USNo CommentsViews:
Shorten UK Undergraduate Degrees to Just Two Years, Says VC

Crisis can be provocative of new ideas, models and practices. Below is one such idea of restructuring the duration of the university degree duration that a UK university Vice-Chancellor is p... Read more

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Ranka dade! Kole Shettima for Turbanning as ‘Zanna Yuroma’ of Machina Emirate

Posted By: adminon: January 18, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: America, Europe, Kano, MacArthur, Machina, Middle East, Mohammed Abubakar Rimi, South East AsiaNo CommentsViews:
Ranka dade! Kole Shettima for Turbanning as 'Zanna Yuroma' of Machina Emirate

Come January 31st, 2026, Dr Kole Ahmed Shettima, Africa Director of MacArthur Foundation will add another feather to his cap. In addition to philanthropy administration, he will be turbaned... Read more

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RLF, ECOWAS @ 50 And the Rich Promise of Radical Populist International Institutionalism

Posted By: adminon: November 17, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Bosnia, ECOWAS, Europe, Liberal institutionalism, Liberia, NATO, Prof Funmi Olonisakin, Prof John Mearsheimer, Radical populist internationalism, Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Sierra Leone, Structural realismNo CommentsViews:
RLF, ECOWAS @ 50 And the Rich Promise of Radical Populist International Institutionalism

International institutions entered the post-Cold War world on a controversial note. As early as 1994, Prof John Mearsheimer had published his essay ‘The false promise of international... Read more

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The Roots and Ills of Godfatherism in Third World Politics

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Asia, Europe, Godfatherism, Ideology, Kingmakers, Patron-client, Policy debates, Prebendalism, United StatesNo CommentsViews:
The Roots and Ills of Godfatherism in Third World Politics

By Comrade Sanusi A. S. Maikudi, FNIM I read with keen interest the thoughtful piece by Engr. Bello Gwarzo Abdullahi titled “The Futility of Political Godfatherism.” He rightly highlighted h... Read more

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Kwam 1 And His New Wife:  Aviation Banditry in A Lawless Country

Posted By: adminon: August 19, 2025In: GovernanceTags: America, Aviation industry, Europe, FAAN, Kemi Badenoch, Kwam 1, Kwam 2, Security ambassador, ‘Agbero’, ‘Moolue’No CommentsViews:
Kwam 1 And His New Wife:  Aviation Banditry in A Lawless Country

Though not exclusive to Intervention, this piece is republished for the reason of the author’s elevated framing of events from the spaces of the everyday . By Toyin Falola When people,... Read more

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Has Zelensky Lost the West?

Posted By: adminon: August 01, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Europe, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, west, ZelenskyNo CommentsViews:
Has Zelensky Lost the West?

Unherd columnist, Thomas Fazi thinks so in this piece which has a sort of a rider: He is becoming a liability. Reflect on the piece! As uneventful diplomatic talks in Istanbul wrapped up wit... Read more

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Okello Oculi (1942-2025): The Scholar Who Lived and Breathed Africa

Posted By: adminon: July 27, 2025In: People in ActionTags: ABU Zaria, Africa, Diallo Telli, Europe, FASS, Music, OAU Mock-Summits, Pan-Africanism, Sembene, ‘Banana Man’No CommentsViews:
Okello Oculi (1942-2025): The Scholar Who Lived and Breathed Africa

By Yusuf Bangura  I received the shocking news of the passing of Okello Oculi, the Ugandan scholar who lived 48 years of his life in Nigeria, while I was on the train to Ottawa from Kingston... Read more

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