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BY: Reverend John Opoku
His Excellency Mr President and our honourable parliamentarians,
When we agreed to undergo the democratic system of governance, we agreed as per the Constitution, to be bound by all the laws we have in the statute books, and also to safeguard our sovereignty and identity as a people distinct from all other people’s groups.
As part of the agreement, we decided to hand over our power as individuals to a few persons by electing those who would protect and defend our way of life; our freedoms, our culture, our belief systems, and to mobilise and utilise all the available resources for that task. In this our era (2021-2024), you happen to be the people we have chosen to do that task. Not to do something about it immediately will collectively and severally be an indictment against you in the eyes of your constituents and a betrayal of their trust as their representatives.
By Bola A. Akinterinwa
Relationship between the People’s Republic of China and the Federal Republic of Nigeria is quite interesting because it is largely defined by many geo-political factors. First is the factor of demography. Nigeria is the most populous nation-state in Africa. It also has the largest black population in the world. And true enough, in every five African peoples, one of them is a Nigerian. In the same vein, China has the biggest population, not only in Asia, but also in the whole world. As such, both countries are demographic powers that cannot be easily neglected in the demographic and foreign strategic calculations of all medium and great powers in international relations. This cannot but be so because of the serious implications for international economic cooperation.
An African agenda at the World Trade Organization
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala takes office as World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General today, on 1 March. As the first female and first African in this position, she joins other Africans at the top of powerful multilateral organisations – Dr
Tedros Ghebreyesus at the World Health Organization, Dr
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala took office as World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General, on 1 March. As the first female and first African in this position, she joins other Africans at the top of powerful multilateral organisations – Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus at the World Health Organisation, Dr Amina Mohammed at the United Nations and Makhtar Diop at the International Finance Corporation.
There’s a sense that this is Africa’s time at the WTO, and there are great expectations that Okonjo-Iweala will champion the continent’s interests. However, pushing this agenda at the WTO will require strong leadership from African countries rather than an African director-general.
South Africa’s Covid-19 responses are marred by policy paradoxes. How does a country with one of the most sophisticated health systems in Africa account for the highest number of Covid-19 fatalities? This brief argues that contemporary approaches to South Africa’s social, domestic, and foreign policy responses should be viewed through the theoretical lenses of racial capitalism a racially hierarchical political economy constituting war, militarism, imperialist accumulation, expropriation by domination, and labour superexploitation. Departing from current paradigms, the brief advocates the unmaking of health inequalities through the abandonment of a racialised neoliberal globalisation by putting decommodification of healthcare at the centrestage of policymaking and recovering the idea of the global commons.