Ebenezer Obadare

The Unmaking of an Elite

The great tragedy of Nigerian tertiary education is the debasement of its professoriate.

The Truth About Africa’s “Debt Crisis”

Africa has a governance crisis, not a debt crisis

Kagame’s Crusade

The Rwandan President’s attempt to regulate faith-based organizations raises more questions than answers.

Uncivil Society

The standard state versus society framework for analyzing African politics is no longer fit for…

A Loud Silence

Pentecostal leaders’ avoidance of the #EndBadGovernance protests in Nigeria speaks volumes about the protests’ ethnoreligious…

The Myth of the ‘Leaderless’ African Protest

Rather than being leaderless, contemporary African protests are being steered by a leadership no one…

A False Dilemma

Bad governance, not dissent, is the real threat to law and order in Nigeria.

A Sense of Foreboding

Nigerians’ frustration with the Tinubu government threatens to spill over

Rumors of a Political Capture

Accusations of influence peddling in the heart of its presidency raise the ugly scepter of…

An Opportunity to Reimagine ECOWAS

The split between ECOWAS and the mutinous AES states may be just what the regional…