By Shiru Soni* Amidst all wrangling and shenanigans going on in South Africa, I read that Singapore was ranked the world’s most competitive economy in world. The first question that came to m...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/04092020-has-south-africa-lost-its-political-will-to-develop-oped/
An investigation has found out that the November 13, 2018 attack on Lasalin was government-orchestrated and was executed by the police in collaboration with criminal elements. By Seth Donnelly...
The death of the 110-year old mining house Lonmin at a London shareholders meeting on 28 May occurred not through bankruptcy or nationalisation, as would have been logical at various points in ti...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/03062019-lonmins-murder-by-money-oped/
This paper clarifies the idea of identity politics, explores the varied justifications behind it, evaluates the criticisms voiced against it and promotes a socialistic perspective on the matter. ...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/20042019-deconstructing-identity-politics-analysis/
By Abayomi Azikiwe* Pentagon bombing operations against the Horn of Africa state of Somalia have killed numerous people over the last several weeks under the guise of the United States “war o...
World Bank president Jim Kim is an ex-leftist who claims that in the mid-1990s he wanted to shut down the Bank. At the time, it was an entirely valid, realistic goal of the 50 Years is Enough...
By Dellvin Roshon Williams* It wouldn’t be enough to say that he put cryptocurrency in Africa on the map. In just three short years, Alexander Lielachcer’s BitcoinAfrica.io ], the continen...
By Ann Garisson* He is the President of Rwanda and the current President of the African Union, feted by the Brookings Institute , one of the most venerable ideological pillars of US capital inter...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/18082018-rwanda-paul-kagames-paranoia-strikes-deep-oped/
By Nombuso Mathibela* After years of supporting a market-led land reform programme and not heeding criticisms of this policy, the African National Congress (ANC) leadership has adopted a radical ...
By Tendai Ruben Mbofana* There is a question that has vexed me – and, I am sure, so many others – as to why, after being subjected to so much untold suffering for nearly four decades by the Z...
By Olurotimi Osha* Italy’s race relations between white Italians and its African migrants and black Italians, while not stellar may not be as dire as race relations in America, but economic opp...
By Edwin Madunagu* The political terrain in Nigeria, today has two colossal parties—PDP and APC—vying for power at the national level. However, it appears to be merely déjà vu as the binary...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/21062018-movements-of-nigerias-ruling-class-oped/
By Edwin Madunagu* I would like to preface this piece with the following four declarations: One: My dominant interest in Election 2019 is the strengthening of the Nigerian Left in the country’s...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/18062018-nigerias-2019-election-background-and-setting-oped/
By Olurotimi Osha* Most regular folks of Western nations are ignorant of the true state of Africa, and the role their respective countries play in the du jour underdevelopment of Africa, which fo...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/26052018-will-all-non-blacks-evacuate-sub-saharan-africa-oped/
By Olurotimi Osha* While hip-hop is now mainstream with a commercial global appeal, its history instantiates the classic elements of the dialectics of cultural and musical artistry. And many of i...
By Peter Kenworthy* Denmark is fighting for a place on the United Nations Human Rights Council while supporting an European Union fisheries agreement with Morocco that includes Western Sahara, in...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/13032018-danish-double-standards-on-human-rights-oped/
By Norman (Otis) Richmond* If Martin Luther King Jr. was among us today, it is safe to say he would oppose the wars in Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. He probably would attempt to broaden ...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/09022018-another-look-at-martin-luther-king-jr-oped/
By David Seddon* The idea of Guevara as a latter-day Don Quixote, setting out on his adventures to undo wrongs and bring justice to the world, and, despite a series of disastrous encounters, m...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/31012018-che-guevara-in-the-congo-oped/
By Gregory Elich* President Mugabe blundered in not arranging an orderly transition to a successor while he was in a stronger political position. That failure left the door open for schemers like...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/26112017-zimbabwe-what-is-behind-military-coup-analysis/
By Alemayehu G. Mariam* Despite its apparently new interest in preserving democracy, for 37 years the military was an indispensable part of a fossilized oligarchy which betrayed the "revolution" ...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/25112017-militarys-role-crucial-in-post-mugabe-zimbabwe-oped/
An African centered critical pedagogy is required in order to create the cadre of the men and women capable of making the analysis as well as developing the policies, structures and systems for t...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/03112017-towards-a-pan-african-political-culture-analysis/
By Paul Ejime* The historic ruling raises a number of fundamental questions on the capacity of electoral management bodies in Africa to conduct free, fair, transparent, credible and peaceful elec...
Given Kenya’s generally violent politics, next week’s election has raised considerable anxiety inside the country and throughout East Africa. A lot depends on whether the electoral body will ...
By Yves Engler The Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold’s African subsidiary, Acacia Mining, is embroiled in a major political conflict in Tanzania. With growing evidence of its failure to pay ro...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/07082017-canadas-hand-in-tanzania-mining-fraud-oped/
By Gary K. Busch* Washington has been at war in Africa for years. But in French-speaking parts of the continent it is Paris that is fully in control. Who becomes president and how national affa...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/01072017-the-us-and-the-wars-in-the-sahel-analysis/
African citizens, activists and organisations are finding new and innovative ways to resist, organise and mobilise in the face of mounting restrictions on their rights to freedom of expression, a...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/18052017-activism-state-african-civil-society-responds-repression/
By Garikai Chengu* The Moors invaded Spain in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes. Recent scholarship now sheds new light on how Moorish advances in mathematics,...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/04052017-how-african-muslims-civilized-spain-oped/
By Abdulrazaq Magaji* Negotiations did not produce the state of Israel. From 1917 when the Jews procured the dubious Balfour Declaration right up to independence three decades later, the Jews con...
https://www.eurasiareview.com/01042017-middle-east-two-states-good-one-state-better-oped/
By Ajamu Nangwaya* March 21 was the 57th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre that was carried out by the South African apartheid regime against protesting Africans in 1960. This protest was ...
Under unremitting pressure from the regional bloc ECOWAS, the African Union and the UN, Gambian strongman Yahya Jammeh fled into exile in Equatorial Guinea. There are credible allegations of seri...