SOUTH AFRICA | Intervention

The West Still Leads in the 2026 CWUR, With an Upset in Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, France, Japan, Makerere University, QS, SOUTH AFRICA, THE, Tsinghua University, UI, UK, University of the Witwatersrand, USNo CommentsViews:

The 2026 version of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) is out and the United States of America, the UK, Japan and France are still the global knowledge powers if the ranking exer... Read more

Yet, Another World University Ranking Without Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2025In: GovernanceTags: ASUU, Claude Ake, Egypt, First Class, MOROCCO, SAP, SOUTH AFRICANo CommentsViews:

It has been another season of world University ranking but in none of which any Nigerian university made the first 500. The ranking industry is confronting considerable criticisms because it... Read more

Suspense As ASUU Goes Into A Closed Session in Sokoto

Posted By: adminon: August 17, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Egypt, IMF/World Bank, NUC, Private universities, Public universities, SOUTH AFRICA, TETFundNo CommentsViews:

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Nigeria is lost in a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Sokoto, Sokoto State. There are no hints about what the outcome of the mee... Read more

If You Had to Invent a University, What Would It Look Like?

Posted By: adminon: April 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: Curricular, Knowledge production, Pedagogy, SOUTH AFRICA, UNESCONo CommentsViews:

By Mark Paterson and Thierry M Luescher Universities must abandon old-fashioned ideas about their roles and the kinds of qualifications they offer if they are to meet student needs and serv... Read more

Thoughts on Approaches to the Study of Nigeria (and Africa Generally)

Posted By: adminon: January 11, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African development, Afro beats, Bjorn Beckman and Gunilla Andrae, Botswana, Brazil, Columbia, Containerisation, CORRUPTION, Home market, Industrialists, Jamaica, LAGOS, Mexico, Poverty, Sierra Leone, Social scientists, SOUTH AFRICA, Trinidad, Uganda, Underdevelopment, UNRISDNo CommentsViews:

In Three Surprises From Our Two-Week Visit to Nigeria, Dr. Yusuf Bangura and wife “were struck by the easy availability of well processed and packaged foods with local flavours; the se... Read more

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: People in ActionTags: '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: 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