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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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August 23, 2011
Nigeria
Babangida, Obasanjo, and Nigerian Governance
Nigeria's former military head of state Ibrahim Babangida, former president Olusegun Obasanjo and former head of state Muhamodu Buhari (L-R) pose for a photograph at the end of a book launch in Minna…
January 24, 2018
Nigeria
Former President Obasanjo Excoriates Nigeria's Politics, Proposes New Path
Obasanjo’s statement is significant for its apparently clear-eyed assessment of the current state of Nigerian governance, as well as its harsh criticism of his successors, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari. It is also indicative of the widespread reassessment of Nigeria’s political institutions now underway across the country.
December 23, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Presidents Obasanjo and Jonathan on the State of Nigeria
On December 2, former president Obasanjo sent a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan cataloguing the shortcomings of the latter’s administration. Eighteen pages in length, it is a thoroughgoing indi…
December 13, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
Former Nigerian President Obasanjo’s Letter to President Goodluck Jonathan
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo witheringly criticizes President Goodluck Jonathan’s governance in an eighteen page, ostensibly private, letter that has been leaked to the press. Obasanjo’s catalo…
November 29, 2023
Sub-Saharan Africa
The False Promise of “Afro Democracy”
Western liberal democracy in Africa
September 18, 2023
Democracy
A Democratic Inquest
Pervasive despondency about democracy in Africa urges the imperative to strengthen democratic institutions and practices.
