Education as common Northern responsibility: From 19 separate efforts to 1 Northern compact (2), by Usman Sarki
“The strength of a race is found both in material and spiritual things associated with that race, that form the kernel of its being and progress or, alternatively, its degeneration.” — John Buchan When material and spiritual advance cease and degeneration becomes the norm, the perdition of a race or society becomes inevitable. The argument […]
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 […]
The pauperisation of spirit and demise of the Left in Africa, 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) AND what is left of the internationalism of the workers’ movement?” asked Frederick Engels of August Bebel. In like manner, we should ask, and what happened to the workers’ and students’ movements […]
