Between 2000 and 2003, Zimbabwe land reform conflict was one of the hottest issues in global politics, not as hot as 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq only because Zimbabwe is not an oil produci... Read more
Afghanistan and anarchy in Nigeria might have stolen the headlines but Covid-19 is still a threat in its own right. Although Africans are not dying in hundreds of thousands as initially fear... Read more
A 3-day long students’ protest at one of South Africa’s elite universities – the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg – has claimed the life of a lone bystander who was not participat... Read more
The stage is set for what might be the mother of all negotiations today between the workers and the management of high profile shopping chain – Shoprite in Nigeria. Things fell apart and the... 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 federal solution as a way out of the phenomenon of state collapse in Africa is echoing again as Prof Eghosa Osaghae, University of Ibadan and one of Nigeria’s leading scholars of federal... Read more
The People’s Redemption Party, (PRP), the only political party with roots in radical ideological politics in Nigeria, has distanced itself from the strategy of lockdown in Nigeria in terms o... Read more
Occupy politics may have arrived big time in Nigeria at last. The People’s Redemption Party, (PRP) is urging Nigerians to occupy the National Assembly should the Senate President and the Sen... Read more
It is mourning time again for an individual beyond the spatiality of the nation-state on account of the force of his scholarship and internationalist practices. That is Professor Bjorn Beckm... Read more
It is absolutely regrettable that there is black violence against African migrants in South Africa but that is something the African determination to survive can and should be able to manage... Read more
