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A Mourning Note on Arthur Mbanefo, the Just Departing Odu of Onitsha

Posted By: adminon: December 25, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Africa, Amb Tanko Suleiman, America, Apa State, Asia, Dr. Edwin Ogbu, French, G-8, Obama, OBASANJO, PR, Protocol, Queen Elizabeth 11, Russia, Thabo MbekiNo CommentsViews:
A Mourning Note on Arthur Mbanefo, the Just Departing Odu of Onitsha

By Adagbo Onoja Nigeria is not a merit-based system. The meritorious fellow is whoever the government of the day defines as such, irrespective of how distinguished the other guy is. Arthur M... Read more

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Gramsci and Lenin on Transcending ‘Parliamentarism’ and on Direct Democracy

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2025In: GovernanceTags: Direct democracy, Gramsci, Lenin, Marxism, NEP, Paris Commune, RussiaNo CommentsViews:
Gramsci and Lenin on Transcending ‘Parliamentarism’ and on Direct Democracy

Although now reconceptualised in different ways from Gramsci’s, income economist and City University of New York (CUNY) academic, Branko Milanovic delivers on the classical Gramscian v... 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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Has Trump Also Buried Structure/Agency Debate, Finally?

Posted By: adminon: February 09, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Barack Obama, Declinism, Discourse theory, Neorealism, Republic of China, Russia, Structure-agency debate, Trump, USNo CommentsViews:
Has Trump Also Buried Structure/Agency Debate, Finally?

Donald Trump is disrupting the world we knew in many ways and almost in all spheres. How far he will go and whether there will be any successful bandwagoning against him (not necessarily aga... Read more

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The New Spirit of Africa: Ethiopian Airlines Rules Africa’s Skies

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Air Maroc, and Brazil, Argentina, Asky Airlines, Chile, cities in most Middle Eastern and Asian countries, Colombia in Latin America, Complete Ethiopianisation, EgyptAir, International business practices, Kenya Airways, Poland, Russia, South African Airways, West European countriesNo CommentsViews:
The New Spirit of Africa: Ethiopian Airlines Rules Africa’s Skies

By Yusuf Bangura A silent revolution is taking place in Africa’s aviation industry. For the first time ever, there is a clear and unrivalled superpower that has taken control of Africa’s ski... Read more

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2×2 geopolitics: Wars and Ideology Simplified

Posted By: adminon: June 28, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Chinese author, International Law, Israel, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, ‘US EmpireNo CommentsViews:
2x2 geopolitics: Wars and Ideology Simplified

By Branko Milanovic Recently, a Chinese author (as seems from the text and the Chinese characters used) proposed the following understanding of international relations. (I am grateful to a f... Read more

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The ‘Democratisation of Asymmetry’

Posted By: adminon: April 02, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Airpower, Arms trade, Attrition, Houthis, Iran, Red Sea, Russia, Sahel, Wagner PMCNo CommentsViews:
The 'Democratisation of Asymmetry'

Ukraine and Gaza are holding the world in rapt attention as sites of war to determine global primacy. But the piece below from The Loop published by the European Consortium for Political Res... Read more

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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:
The End of the Western Democracy Project in Africa

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

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President Tinubu’s Populist Escape Route from Niger – Mali – B/Faso – Guinea Diplomatic Misadventure

Posted By: adminon: February 24, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Anti-imperialism, Burkina Faso, Culture, ECOWAS, Emotions, Foreign powers, History, Language, Mali, Memories, National interest, National security, Niger Republic, Power, Psychoanalysis, Russia, Songhai Empire, Sovereignty, WARNo CommentsViews:
President Tinubu's Populist Escape Route from Niger - Mali - B/Faso - Guinea Diplomatic  Misadventure

The doctrine of ‘news following the flag’ compels the contribution of whoever is in a position to do so towards a sharp course-correction away from what has clearly been a major... Read more

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

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

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