A revised version of an article written some years back, this piece by Abubakar Aliyu Liman, Professor of Comparative Literature and Popular Culture at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nig... Read more
The United Kingdom, like much of the Western world BUT unlike much of Africa, is a key battleground involving troops of the decolonial epistemology, a battle well brought into view by the au... Read more
The Times Higher Education, (THE), one of the six or so conducting its own world ranking of universities, is out with the 2023 exercise. There is nothing earth shaking in it as the United Ki... Read more
It is an old debate that has come back with the death of Tanzanian president, John Magufuli. That is the debate on which of democracy and development should come before the other. The master... Read more
It has been a week of a heavy share of the gale of insecurity and death sweeping across Nigeria. Not only was the Auxiliary Bishop of Owerri, the Most Reverend Moses Chikwe kidnapped along w... Read more
In the context of voice as a form of power, Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey joining the academic community at the London School of Economics today would be considered great news for global academia... Read more
By Robert Morrell• On Monday, 17 August, Bill Freund died in Durban. He was 76 years old. He was among the most eminent of South Africa’s historians and published prodigiously broadly in the... Read more
The Association for Border Studies, (ABS), the global platform for scholars and practitioners of border politics has announced three newly elected members to the Board of Directors for a ter... Read more
By Prof Maurice Amutabi* * Maurice Amutabi, the author of this piece extracted from the Pan-Africanist Pambazuka Online, (20/10/2017) is a Professor of History, Fulbright Scholar and Vice C... Read more
By Molly Anders LONDON — The year is 1997. The global financial crisis is a distant portent; mobile phones double as bludgeons; and cash transfers are still mostly conducted at Western Union... Read more
