Opinion

“GOD WHEN!?”

August 15, 2022

By Toyin Falola The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present

A Tale of Visions: A Tribute to Professor Akin Mabogunje (1931–2022)

August 6, 2022

By Toyin Falola “Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a

Chika Okeke-Agulu: Shining the Spotlight on a True “Son of the Soil”

August 4, 2022

By Toyin Falola Some days ago, Tobi Amusan broke the world record for the female 100-meter hurdles sprint. Reading the news story, I was thrilled that someone had yet

Those who respect the elderly pave their own road toward success – African proverb (Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation, Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola, Bloomsbury Academic, New York,

12 years after UN Declaration of water as a human right: Groups warn African governments against privatisation agenda

July 29, 2022

On July 28, 2022, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), alongside the Our Water Our Right Africa Coalition hosted a webinar with African water justice campaigners, in commemoration

Mr. Speaker, Kill The National Water Bill Now!

July 28, 2022

By Olatunji Buhari On June 29, 2022, in my hotel room in Abuja I tuned to Channels TV, a Lagos based Television network. What caught my attention was a headline

NIGERIA: Where did we get it wrong??? By Patrick Aigbokhan

July 28, 2022

Sometimes I try to figure out the meaning of a current trendy statement, or maybe I should refer to it as a slogan, that is flying around in the political

Thabo Mbeki and the Quest for an Independent and Prosperous Africa

July 20, 2022

By Toyin Falola The quest for an independent and prosperous Africa spans several generations, continents, and themes. Notably, from the eighteenth century, people of African descent in Europe, America, the

Anthony Asiwaju’s Bridging African Boundaries: A Three-part Blueprint for Every Progress-driven African Leader

July 6, 2022

By Toyin Falola As I read through the first few pages of Emeritus Professor Anthony Asiwaju’s Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy

A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI, PART 3

June 30, 2022

This is the second interview report with President Mbeki on June 19, 2022. Viewership figures on television, radios and over a dozen platforms reached over 35 million by June 20,

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