Prof John Mearsheimer is not another pundit pontificating on war. He is in a class of his own. First, he is a graduate of the West Point Military Academy. Second, he ran up to the rank of a... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura Sierra Leone was elected into the UN Security Council June 6th, 2023. That is as a non-permanent member. The UN Security Council is composed of 15 members—five (US, Russia,... Read more
He was a man of style. Always asking for clarification which was his own stylish way of interrogating everything and everyone at all times. He was entitled to that because, unlike many of us... Read more
BY JOSÉ ERNESTO NOVAEZ Marxist researcher and the intellectual plenipotentiary, Vijay Prashad, can always be trusted to smartly stand with orthodoxy but creatively advocate tactics of strugg... Read more
By Yusuf Bangura Finland’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation yesterday, 4 April, will surely rankle Russia, given the 1,300 kilometres of land the two countries share. One... Read more
Officially, age is a protected characteristic, meaning that it is out of sync to go about asking people about their age as a requirement for this or that. But that is the official narrative.... Read more
Well, that is the claim Toby Walsh, Australian tech expert and Professor of Artificial Intelligence argues in this interview with Der Spiegel and in which he spells out how menacing Artifici... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki The storming of the Presidential Palace in Colombo by thousands of Sri Lankans last month brings to mind the historic storming of the Bastille Prison outside Paris... Read more
By his self-understanding as a lion in the Nigerian political forest, the past one week must have come to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as a shock. The lion is rarely caught off-guard or easily messed... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki There is the need to define the parameters of the concepts of foreign policy and diplomacy as they relate to the practical conduct of inter-state relations. While p... Read more