Election without political parties: Outlook towards 2027 (2), by Usman Sarki
“Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.” — John Dewey The reactions to my recent article, “Election Without Political Parties: Outlook Towards 2027”, have been several, and they raised important questions that deserve further examination. If political parties in Nigeria are losing […]
Aliko Dangote and the Power of Conviction: Perspectives from the “Left”(2), by Usman Sarki
“Life demands that we attentively reconsider all our intellectual stock-in-trade when we step on to new ground”— Georgi Plekhanov, Socialism and the Political Struggle THE appropriation of patriotism is a conscious intellectual and political act that also transcends other boundaries, such as economic nationalism and social engineering. The realisation of the fact as pronounced by Aliko […]
Alhaji Aliko Dangote and the Power of Conviction: Perspectives from the “Left”(1), by Usman Sarki
“Great talents appear everywhere, whenever the social conditions favourable for their development exist”, Georgi Plekhanov, “On the Role of the Individual in History” THE overriding interest that I have in paying this tribute to the man Alhaji Aliko Dangote, lies in the fact that he has achieved a transcendental station in life that forcefully intrudes into […]
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 […]
