Freetown, one of Africa’s most symbolic capital cities, is 230 years old and it is not missing using the anniversary as an opportunity to flaunt its survival in history, with particula... Read more
By Dr. Yusuf Bangura I have been following debates on the economic dimensions of the Ukraine crisis on France 24 since the Russian invasion of that country. France 24 does a good job of brin... Read more
The world is waiting on President Putin’s next move. The Columbian Journalism Review thinks there is someone who knows Putin’s next move. An interesting read below: By Jon Allsop A week ago,... Read more
By Jon Allsop Nothing appears to have happened to the received wisdom that half or quarter truths acting as bodyguards of the larger truth is the first condition of war, be it between what h... Read more
Cuba has done it again. It has vaccinated 90% of the population according to a widely circulating story, (TheHill, for example). Cuba created multiple Covid-19 vaccines in addition to aggres... Read more
But for the European Union, (EU), Ethiopia’s Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus would not have been renominated for another term as Director-General of the World Health Organisation, (WHO). Reut... Read more
The Africans, however defined, have their own idea of which African writer should win the Nobel Prize on Literature. The Swedish Academy which decides who wins have their own idea of which A... Read more
The world order might be changing but, as far as the knowledge-power nexus is concerned, the United States of America and the United Kingdom still have the largest number of the top scoring... Read more
Fear is rising about the fate of women and girls as the Taliban sets to re-assert control of Afghanistan again. What is likely to happen to that category, if previous experience is anything... Read more
China as Great Power Unfolds Further, Plays Up Clean Records Card in Colonialism @ Party’s Centenary
The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party is providing China a strategic opportunity for the rhetorical offensive, this time playing up its clean record as far as colonising others is con... Read more
