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

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

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Novel Samples of Stylising Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Anniversary

Posted By: adminon: October 02, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Cameroon, Cuba, Ghana, Green-White-Green, Harvard, New York, Nigerian flag, Nigerianity, Senegal, The Nigerian genius, Uganda, University of IbadanNo CommentsViews:
Novel Samples of Stylising Nigeria’s 63rd Independence Anniversary

The 63rd Independence anniversary of Nigeria has come and gone but not the memories of those who stylised the anniversary with imaginative Green-White-Green designs. From New York city comes... Read more

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Nigeria’s ‘Resource Curse’ Under Academic Scrutiny @ 27th World Congress of Political Science

Posted By: adminon: July 16, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Buenos Aires, Kenya, Mozambique, NIGERIA, Political Science, Resilience, Resource curse, Uganda, VulnerabilityNo CommentsViews:
Nigeria's 'Resource Curse' Under Academic Scrutiny @ 27th World Congress of Political Science

The 27th World Congress of Political Science is underway in Buenos Aires, Brazil, with Africa set to dominate the panel on The Politics of New Resource Discoveries in the “Post-resourc... Read more

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Why COVID-19 is Not Killing Africans in Thousands, Yet

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: HIV, Malaria, SOUTH AFRICA, Sub-Saharan Africa, TB, UgandaNo CommentsViews:
Why COVID-19 is Not Killing Africans in Thousands, Yet

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

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See What 2020 Did to African Journalists, According to RFI Report

Posted By: adminon: December 30, 2020In: FlashbackTags: Al-jazeera, Niger, NIGERIA, RFI, UgandaNo CommentsViews:
See What 2020 Did to African Journalists, According to RFI Report

A Radio France International report on how journalists in Africa fared across the continent shows it had been no less tense and turbulent for even them. The report released yesterday shows t... Read more

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ASUU Versus FG: Nigeria’s 30 Year War Without Remedy

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Abacha, Abdulsalami, Africa, ASUU, Babangida, Bukola Saraki, CBN, FG, IMF, Jonathan, NCC, NNPC, OBASANJO, Prof Ogunyemi, PSI, PTDF, Uganda, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, universities, World BankNo CommentsViews:
ASUU Versus FG: Nigeria’s 30 Year War Without Remedy

Universities in Africa remain a battleground. Makerere University in Uganda, a senior member of the club of the most prestigious universities in Africa in those days is currently under lock... Read more

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Africa: Next After the Essential Drugs List

Posted By: adminon: October 26, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Ebola, Johns Hopkins University, Kampala, Michigan, Uganda, West Africa, WHO, Zika virusesNo CommentsViews:
Africa: Next After the Essential Drugs List

Published originally under the title “Africa has an essential medicines list. Now it needs one for diagnostics” in The Conversation, (October 25th, 2016) this piece is being republished here... Read more

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Zimbabweanization of Nigeria?

Posted By: adminon: September 25, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, American, BOKO HARAM, British, Cameroun, European, Ghana, Kenya, Kofi Annan, NIGERIA, NTA, Robert Mugabe, South Sudan, Uganda, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:
Zimbabweanization of Nigeria?

By Professor Okello Oculi A neo-comic news item telecast by the  Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Network News showed two elderly American businessmen – wrapped in locally woven Tiv... Read more

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UN Refugees and Migrants Summit: All Talk, No Action

Posted By: adminon: September 19, 2016In: SpectacleTags: African, Cameroon, Chad, Kenya, Lebanon, Niger, Syrian, Uganda, UK, UNNo CommentsViews:
UN Refugees and Migrants Summit: All Talk, No Action

By Winnie Byanyima           I cried my eyes out when I arrived in the UK, a refugee. I remember the policeman at immigration control looking down at me, a lost and... Read more

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Blood and Greed: How Kenya and Uganda are cashing in on Death and Plunder in South Sudan

Posted By: adminon: September 16, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Barack Obama, Kenya, Nairobi, President Salva Kiir, South Sudan, UgandaNo CommentsViews:
Blood and Greed: How Kenya and Uganda are cashing in on Death and Plunder in South Sudan

Intervention has reproduced this report below from This Is Africa, not so much on the basis of its belief in its veracity or otherwise but the so many issues it raises for and about Africa –... Read more

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