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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“We often hear politicians talk about fighting corruption, improving the efficiency of public-facing institutions etc. It’s all talk. The sad reality is that these agencies are deliberately... Read more
