Making the Common Northern Education Compact a reality: Pathway from Niger State, by Usman Sarki
“To this class of enemies belong some of the educated or half-educated Europeanized natives whom our educational and religious system divorces from their race, and who, having no outlet and bereft of national or racial pride, betray the interests of their country into the hands of its foes.” — E. D. Morel Instilling pride in […]
Population, democracy and development, by Usman Sarki
“The changes of the past 30 years represent tectonic shifts in how the world works, in our health systems, political institutions and social norms —“, UNFPA, State of World Population 2024 THE launch of the State of World Population, SWOP, 2024 in Abuja, on April 24, 2024, calls for introspection about issues related to population […]
Commemorating the Allied Victory in World War II (2), by Usman Sarki
“To understand beyond a limited historical epoch, we must step beyond its limits, and compare it with other historical epochs”, Karl Marx, Secret Diplomatic History The massacres that are going on before our very eyes every day because of Israeli operations, could have been stopped if there was a genuine intent to seek for peaceful settlement […]
Gaza and the rest of us: An impulse towards humanity and civilized conduct, by Usman Sarki
IT is a forlorn hope and an unattainable dream to expect the West to conduct its affairs according to the impulse of humanity and principles of humanising behaviours that are intrinsic to other nations and peoples. For too long, the West had relied on force as a driving impulse in its conception of relations with […]
Like Poland, like Gaza: Through the eyes of Joseph Conrad, by Usman Sarki
“My practice of reflection had also convinced me that there is nothing on earth that turns quicker on its pivot than political idealism when touched by the breath of practical politics” – Joseph Conrad MEMORIES are the greatest assets in the survival of nations. Poland was kept alive in the minds of Poles for a […]
Faye and the challenge of governance in Senegal, by Usman Sarki
“My practice of reflection had also convinced me that there is nothing on earth that turns quicker on its pivot than political idealism when touched by the breath of practical politics” – Joseph Conrad Field Marshall Helmut Von Moltke’s dictum that “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s […]
