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What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

Posted By: adminon: September 29, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Afenifere, Arewa, Brazil, Britain, Cuba, Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, Ijaw National Youths Congress, India, Japan, Middle Belt Forum, Nation building, NELSON MANDELA, Ohanaeze, Ruling class, Singapore, South-South Forum, USA, YorubaNo CommentsViews:
What, Where Nigeria Should Be By Now and Whose Responsibility It Is?

By Prof Festus Iyayi It is another independence anniversary and time to turn to Prof Festus Iyayi for an idea of what and where Nigeria should be by now and whose responsibility it is to tak... Read more

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Isn’t Mandela Calling On Akume in Benue State?

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Aper Aku, Benue Oneness, Cardinal Onaiyekan, elite fragmentation, Kantin Kwari, NELSON MANDELA, Oshodi, SGF, WAPANo CommentsViews:
Isn’t Mandela Calling On Akume in Benue State?

By Adagbo Onoja Over the weekend, (22/07/2023), Senator George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, issued a statement that offers insight into the mind of the Governmen... Read more

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Season of Death for South African Anti-Apartheid Musicians?

Posted By: adminon: February 09, 2021In: People in ActionTags: Jonas Gwangwa, NELSON MANDELA, “First lady of song”No CommentsViews:
Season of Death for South African Anti-Apartheid Musicians?

It seems to be a season of death for a particular tribe of musicians in South Africa. It is a tribe in the sense that, though just the two of them, they all died within days of each other in... Read more

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The Coming 200th Birthday of Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism

Posted By: adminon: August 06, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Alex Callinicos, David Harvey, Edward Said, Empire, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hardt & Negri, Kwame Nkrumah, NELSON MANDELA, NeoliberalismNo CommentsViews:
The Coming 200th Birthday of Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism

Triple C: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, the open access journal, would appear to have kick-started the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s fellow traveler in articul... Read more

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My Personal Experience of Racism in Switzerland

Posted By: adminon: June 12, 2020In: People in ActionTags: Bvlgari, NELSON MANDELA, Racism, Swiss nationalityNo CommentsViews:
My Personal Experience of Racism in Switzerland

The author, the daughter of an African diplomat, tells her own story of racial encounter at a moment the world is ready to listen to such stories more than ever before By Rebecca Stevens I m... Read more

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Conflict Experts Trace 2017 Bwari Violence to Cultism, Cultural Blinkers and the Government

Posted By: adminon: June 02, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Bwari LGC, Esu Bwari, FCT, Gbagyi, Hausa, NAFDAC, NDLEA, NELSON MANDELA, Sarkin Bwari, Suleija Emirate Council, ToroNo CommentsViews:
Conflict Experts Trace 2017 Bwari Violence to Cultism, Cultural Blinkers and the Government

Even as common place as scorched earth inter-group violence across Nigeria since the 1990s, the violent eruption in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, Nigeria on December 24th and 25th, 2017 has l... Read more

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What Ghanaian President Said at Hugh Masekela’s Burial in South Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2018In: People in ActionTags: Addis Ababa, AU Summit, Keteke, NELSON MANDELANo CommentsViews:
What Ghanaian President Said at Hugh Masekela's Burial in South Africa

Tribute by The President of the Republic Of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, At The Funeral Of Hugh Masakela, On Tuesday, 30th January, 2018, In Johannesburg, South Africa I had to come,... Read more

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Where Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki Got It Wrong – Prof. Nzongola-Ntalaja (Part 1)

Posted By: adminon: June 25, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'China in Africa', AfDB, Aluko Olokun, Amilcar Cabral, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chris Hani, Cyril Ramaphosa, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, ECA, Frantz Fanon, GEAR, Julius Nyerere, Lagos Plan of Action, NELSON MANDELA, NEPAD, Pan-Africanism, Prof Abubakar Momoh, Prof Okello Oculi, Prof Said Adejumobi, RDP, Thabo Mbeki, UNDP, University of SussexNo CommentsViews:
Where Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki Got It Wrong - Prof. Nzongola-Ntalaja (Part 1)

*Poverty reduction is an indecent expression *No country in the world has developed without state Intervention in the economy *Africa has no alternative to the Lagos Plan of Action *If Chris... Read more

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President Jacob Zuma of South Africa and the Struggle Against Corruption on the Continent

Posted By: adminon: April 03, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'Vote of No Confidence', African National Congress-ANC, CORRUPTION, Frederick De Klerk, Misgovernance, NELSON MANDELA, SOUTH AFRICA, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa and the Struggle Against Corruption on the Continent

So, how could things happen in a way that a core cadre of the ANC be linked with blatant corruption? He had better survive it or would it not be too embarrassing? Read more

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Legitimacy, Not Weak Institutions or Lack of Capacity, is the Crisis in Africa – Tanzanian Professor

Posted By: adminon: November 09, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, John Magufuli, NELSON MANDELA, Professor Mwesiga Baregu, Tanzania, UNESCONo CommentsViews:
Legitimacy, Not Weak Institutions or Lack of Capacity, is the Crisis in Africa – Tanzanian Professor

Professor Mwesiga Baregu, Tanzanian political scientist and opposition politician, took a look at Africa yesterday and declared that the problems are not weak institutions, wrong policies, l... Read more

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Beyond Marxist Orthodoxy: A Rejoinder to Adagbo Onoja
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