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The West Still Leads in the 2026 CWUR, With an Upset in Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, France, Japan, Makerere University, QS, SOUTH AFRICA, THE, Tsinghua University, UI, UK, University of the Witwatersrand, USNo CommentsViews:

The 2026 version of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) is out and the United States of America, the UK, Japan and France are still the global knowledge powers if the ranking exer... Read more

A Divided Africa on France and the Sahelian States on Display?

Posted By: adminon: May 19, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, France, Peace maker, President Ruto of Kenya, Three Sahelian statesNo CommentsViews:

Something is happening to and in Africa that is not easy to characterise or that Intervention doesn’t have enough details to characterise. A set of African states – the three Sahelian... Read more

An Enjoyable Afternoon at Quay de Cologny in Geneva

Posted By: adminon: September 21, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, Quay de Cologny, Sail GP, Spain, the US, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura We had an enjoyable treat at Quay de Cologny in Geneva this afternoon (20/09/25). We were invited by an ex-UNRISD colleague, Angela, to watch the Sail GP (Grand Prix) or boa... Read more

Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye and Nigeria’s Foreign Policy under the Tinubu Administration

Posted By: adminon: June 10, 2025In: GovernanceTags: 4Ds, Ambassadors, BRICS, ECOWAS, France, Gbajabiamila Committee, Nigerian foreign policyNo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan Saliu Having perused Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye’s press statement on Nigeria’s foreign policy, I commend him for providing valuable insights into the government... Read more

Memories of Prof Richard Joseph’s Abuja Fish Joint Seminar

Posted By: adminon: February 16, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Abuja Review of Fish Joint Conversation, Africa, Cameroon, Diffarance, France, NIIA, Prebendalism, Republic of Nigeria, theoryNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja It wasn’t a seminar. It was a social outing except that all the attendants have social science background. In fact, all but one of them are political scientists, invite... Read more

NIIA Intellectualises Diasporic Community As An Instrument of Nigerian Foreign Policy

Posted By: adminon: January 05, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Canada, Diasporic community, France, Israel, Nigerian foreign policy, NIIA, People's Republic of China, UKNo CommentsViews:

The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) is set to centralise intellectualising the idea of the diasporic community as an instrument of (Nigerian) foreign policy. Come January... Read more

The Changed Face of European Football

Posted By: adminon: July 08, 2024In: SpectacleTags: African descent, Aimé Jacquet, Angelo Ogbonna, Blacks, Cameroon, England, European football, France, Indonesian ancestry, Mario Balotelli, Multiculturalism, Namibia, TogoNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura Something remarkable is happening in European football, which requires scholarly attention, especially by those working on multiculturalism, social integration, far right po... Read more

Two Days Rethinking Democracy in West Africa in the Face of Discontent and Coups

Posted By: adminon: February 11, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: 'Armed populism', Democracy and Development, ECOWAS, Electoral accountability, France, Grounded theory, INEC, Military Vanguardism, Niger – Mali – Burkina Faso, Robert Cox, RussiaNo CommentsViews:

It was a pleasant two-day house (hotel) arrest for the purpose of a collective peer review of a potentially explosive book project on electoral accountability in Nigeria on the one hand and... Read more

The North, Marxism and ‘Jibo Must Pay’ On Our Minds at the Joyous Night for D. S. Ibrahim @ 85

Posted By: adminon: December 23, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Algerian War of Independence, Danlami Samuel, France, Marxism, Old North, Post-positivism, Social theory, The Communist Manifesto, ‘Jibo Must Pay’, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

It was a joyous but also painful evening. Joyous because junior brothers, grandchildren, in-laws and friends of the family gathered to celebrate a remarkable individual at 85. Painful becaus... Read more

Ruminating on the Use of Force as Foreign Policy Tool Against the Coup in Niger Republic

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: African Union, Dialogue, Diplomacy, ECOWAS, France, MNJTF, Niger Republic, UEMOANo CommentsViews:

By Murtala Muhammad PhD As is already well known, the Presidential Guards in Niger Republic launched a coup and detained President Mohamed Bazoum and his family on the On July 26th, 2023,. S... Read more