Shehu Sani Tells Truth To His North
By Lasisi Olagunju ‘Truth Is Trouble’ is Professor Niyi Osundare’s latest book. What the poet laureate says in English, we…
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Is AI Really Getting Out Of Control?
By Alex Krasodomski CURRENT and former employees of U.S. AI (Artificial Intelligence) laboratories and their leaders have issued dire warnings…
What The U.S. Midterms Could Mean For Trump’s Power
By Max Yoeli AS President Donald Trump gathered Republicans last week for their first-ever midterm convention, election campaigning is in full swing….
BRICS And Africa: Can The Expanded Bloc Deliver More Than Geopolitical Symbolism?
By Alex Vines AS BRICS expands, Africa has a larger presence around the table than ever before. South Africa is…
Obasanjo’s Presidential Library And Nigeria’s Poor Maintenance Culture
By Oladimeji Ramon WHEN visiting the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Nigeria’s South West, you get to know the…
Literacy For People, Planet, And Prosperity
By Namse Udosen ON this year’s International Literacy Day, the theme “Literacy for People, the Planet and Prosperity” invites us to rethink…
Treason Cases Sweep Across Africa’s Opposition
By Sheriff Bojang Jr FROM Tanzania and Uganda to Zambia, South Sudan and Lesotho, some of Africa’s biggest political figures are…
Death of Opposition Politics in Africa
By Richard Ikiebe MANY people outside East Africa may not have heard of Tundu Lissu, the Tanzanian opposition politician who is…
Clerics, Politicians, And Election Money
By Lasisi Olagunju CHIEF S. L. Akintola, post-independence Premier of the Western Region, knew that when money entered politics, trust…
Bribes, Bimbos, Babalawos: An Undiplomatic Memoir
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu SIR Henry Wotton, the Renaissance-era politician and diplomat from Kent in England, is credited with the line…