Illustrious members of the high Table and the table not so high, distinguished members of the audience, notable and budding philosophers, Professor Sophie Oluwole, the keynote speaker who is also the ...

We write this letter as concerned African intellectuals on the continent and in the Diaspora. Many of us have dedicated our professional lives to understanding the causes and potential solutions to ...

“L ike many African Americanists,” the Vanderbilt University historian Brandon Byrd says, “I consider myself a generalist. It wasn’t till the past five years or so, when I joined the African American ...

Introduction: The prismatic nature of public intellectualism -- Chapter 1. Recalibrating the deep history of intellectual thought in the KwaZulu-Natal region -- Chapter 2. Elijah Makiwane and early ...

African intellectuals and politicians must work together to revive public service and bring about transformative governance for the continent’s socio-political and economic growth, former Ekiti State ...

The President of the Association of African Private Universities (AAPU), Prof Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo, has called on all African intellectuals in diaspora to return to Africa after graduation in order ...

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LAST OCTOBER young Nigerians took to the streets to protest against police brutality. At first “none of the traditional media companies were covering it,” recalls Wale Lawal. A few years earlier he ...

Supporters of outgoing Senegalese President Macky Sall cheer during a rally ahead of presidential elections in 2019. Seyllou/AFP via Getty Images Africa Day celebrates the foundation of the ...