SOUTH AFRICA Archives - Intervention

Bingham University Set to Crack Instability Under Democratic Setting in Africa

Posted By: adminon: December 24, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Australia, Bingham University, Cultural pluralism, DEMOCRACY, Ghana, Instability, SOUTH AFRICA, The HagueNo CommentsViews:

Bingham University on the outskirt of Abuja in Nigeria has set aside March 5th to 8th, 2025 for an international conference on “political instability and the crisis of development in Africa.... Read more

Achille Mbembe, Africa’s First Holberg Prize Laureate, Speaks on Award, Africa and on Planetary Consciousness

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Afropolitan space, Apartheid, Denationalisation, Global South, Holberg Prize, NIGERIA, Planetary consciousness, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Edwin Naidu Professor Achille Mbembe’s person, scholarship and administrative politics may not be what everyone accepts but very few would be surprised that the Johannesburg based Africa... Read more

Tribute to My Retiring Lecturers in Nigeria’s BUK (1)

Posted By: adminon: November 14, 2023In: LifeworldTags: 'African Political Thought', Apartheid, ASUU Chairman, BUK, Marxist, PhD, Political Theory, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Prof Hassan A. Saliu M.M. Yusuf As An Activist Scholar Mallam Muazu Mohammed Yusuf retired from the services of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) in April, 2023 after putting in forty-two yea... Read more

Can Tanzania Join Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa on Visa-free Policy?

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Dr Tajudeen Abdulraheem, Europeans, Kenya, President Paul Kagame, President William Ruto, SOUTH AFRICA, Tanzania, Visa-free policyNo CommentsViews:

Rwanda is granting visa to Africans on arrival in the country. Paul Kagame, the president made this known by himself. Kenya, her neighbour, is following that pathway. The two will be joined... Read more

Should Nigeria Pursue An Assertive Foreign Policy?

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: BRICS, Coup de’tat, ECOWAS, G5, Niger Republic, NIGERIA, North Africa, Sahel, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki Nigeria’s participation in the recently held BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, had rekindled the debate about the country’s leadership role in... Read more

Oxford University Heading for a Decade Long, Uninterrupted No. 1 in THE Global Ranking

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: California, Chicago, Egypt, Epistemological hegemony, Harvard, MIT, NIGERIA, Oxford, SOUTH AFRICA, Stanford, THE, UCLNo CommentsViews:

UK’s Oxford University is heading for a decade long, uninterrupted number One position on The Higher Education (THE) global ranking. It has been in that position for the eight year running w... Read more

How South Africa, Not Nigeria, Got into BRICS

Posted By: adminon: August 23, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: BRICS, BRICSAM, Confucius, G-7, G-9, Hindu Nationalism, IBSA, Jim O'Neil, NIGERIA, Orthodox Church, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

BRICS is in the news this week. For a long time to come, it will be in the news, more so for Africa. As the most unintended biting critique of the ‘Clash of Civilisations’ paradigm, the idea... Read more

Needed: Another Prof Jubril Aminu @ the NUC

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: G-20, IMF, NUC, NYSC, SOUTH AFRICA, World Bank1 CommentViews:

Nigerians are believed to have been shocked beyond shockability in their encounter with nation building. But even then the set of members of the NYSC somewhere in the country who didn’... Read more

Will Ojapiano, Kcee’s Amazing New Sound, Become a Music Genre or Sub-genre of Afrobeats?

Posted By: adminon: June 18, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Afrobeats, Amapiano, Asake, Burna boy, Davido, Igbos’ Oja, Kcee, Limba, Ojapiano, SOUTH AFRICA, Tems, Yoruba DundunNo CommentsViews:

By Yusuf Bangura In his new hit single Ojapiano, which is taking TikTok and the African music scene by storm, Kcee combines amapiano (currently South Africa’s most popular music genre) and t... Read more

University of Cape Town Still the African Star in the 2023 QS Subject Ranking

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: 'Colonialism of a special type', Africa, Ranking criteria, SOUTH AFRICA, University of Cape TownNo CommentsViews:

When one looks at some of the criteria used in most of the ranking exercises, one could say it is not for African universities. A criterion such as the international character of a faculty o... Read more