Zimbabwe Archives - Intervention

The Asiwaju Imaginary and Daniel Bwala’s Dilemma

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Atiku Abubakar, Barrister Daniel Bwala, Brig-Gen Giwa Amu, NEPU-PRP, OBASANJO, Sirte, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Intervention started its reportorial attention on the incipient Tinubu Presidency by forewarning the coming of a constructivist into power. Some deformed structuralists took... Read more

Are Political Science Departments Failing to Aid Democracy?

Posted By: adminon: March 27, 2023In: World From AfricaTags: Botswana, Democracy in Africa, Department of Government, Ghana, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Kwame Nkrumah, Mandela, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Okot p’Bitek, Political Science, Thomas Sankara, Zimbabwe, ‘Rhodes Must Fall’No CommentsViews:

As is always the case and without being chauvinistic there, Nigeria tends to flash the signal or sound the alarm. On February 9th, 2018, it did so when an event on democracy turned into a cl... Read more

New Book: Researching Land Reform in Zimbabwe

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Australia, CMAG, Masvingo Province, NIGERIA, Prof Ian Scoones, SOUTH AFRICA, Zimbabwe, ZimbabwelandNo CommentsViews:

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

Tanzanian Writer, Abdulrazak Gournah, Brings 2021 Nobel Prize on Literature to Africa

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, Postcolonial theory, Tanzania, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

The fiction writer, Abdulrazak Gournah from Tanzania has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy hinged his victory on his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration o... Read more

Death of Bjorn Beckman Brings Back Memories of an Era in Nigeria Especially

Posted By: adminon: November 07, 2019In: People in ActionTags: 'World System' Theory, FASS, Ghana, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin, SOUTH AFRICA, University of Dar es Salaam, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

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

Why Buhari is Implicated in Insecurity in Nigeria – Prof. Shedrack Best, (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: January 02, 2017In: GovernanceTags: Abdulsalami, Aliyu Gusau, anti-corruption war, Botswana, geopolitical reading, Ghana, Goodluck Jonathan, Gowon, IBB, Messiah, Mohicans, Muti-Track Diplomacy model, NIGERIA, Propagandistic, Rwanda, TY Danjuma, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

Why Buhari is Implicated in Insecurity in Nigeria – Prof. Shedrack Best, (Part 2) By Adagbo ONOJA In the first part of this interview, Shedrack Best, a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studie... Read more

Mugabe Leaves the World Still Guessing

Posted By: adminon: November 23, 2016In: SpectacleTags: Africa, American, British, Grace Mugabe, Robert Mugabe, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has left the world still guessing about when he plans to relinquish power after monopolising presidential power since the country’s independence in April... Read more

Underdeveloped American Democracy

Posted By: adminon: November 11, 2016In: SpectacleTags: America, Angola, Arkansas State, Brazil, British, Canada, CHINA, DONALD TRUMP, HILLARY CLINTON, ISIS, JACOB ZUMA, Mexico, Namibia, Robert Mugabe, SOUTH AFRICA, United Nations, Venezuela, Washington, ZimbabweNo CommentsViews:

By Okello Oculi, The notion of the United States of America as an ‘’underdeveloped country’’ was irreverently presented by Ira Sharkansky to the197... Read more

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:

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