Gambari at 80: A Modest Proposal
Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies and Director of Center for Africana…
1 month ago
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Olatunji Dare at 80: The Man of Letters as a Repairer
In this tribute, Wale Adebanwi writes that one of the public intellectuals who exhibited the…
6 months ago
Corruption in ANC, public service has set South Africa back – Former President Kgalema Motlanthe
On April 4, 2024, former President of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, delivered a Special Lecture…
9 months ago
What the Guggenheim Fellowship won by Nigerian scholar, Wale Adebanwi, means
Wale Adebamwi, Nigerian professor and scholar, has won the 2024 prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, awarded based…
9 months ago
We have to provide education for our people in Africa – President Julius Bio of Sierra Leone
President Julius Bio of Sierra Leone delivered Third Annual Distinguished Lecture in African Studies, organized…
9 months ago
Awolowo and the Questions of our Age
In its November 10, 1958, edition, TIME magazine published an interesting story about the Constitutional…
10 months ago
LÁŃREWÁJÚ ADÉPỌ̀JÙ: A Tribute
The following text was drafted during a collective effort some years ago to secure a…
12 months ago
I don’t understand why some leaders want to be president for so long – President Masisi of Botswana
On Monday, March 20, 2023, the President of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi gave a lecture at…
2 years ago
Babafemi Ojudu at 60: Courage and Conviction
By Wale Adebanwi Three passions—to paraphrase Bertrand Russell—strong and overwhelmingly propelling, have governed Babafemi…
4 years ago
Jakande – Farewell to the Architect of Modern Lagos
By Wale Adebanwi Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, the first executive Governor of Lagos State…
4 years ago