SOUTH AFRICA | Intervention

Awaiting NIIA’s Roundtable on Xenophobia in South Africa

Posted By: adminon: August 12, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Comparative Politics, NIIA, SOUTH AFRICA, XenophobiaNo CommentsViews:

Every judgment stands on a comparative pedestal. Comparison makes meaning possible. This seems to be the point of departure of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) in its t... Read more

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