The International Relations community has focused its attention in recent times on the growing cost of food and its impact on developing nations and the devastating effect the rising cost of food will have on the world’s poor which is currently estimated to be over one billion people. On top of this, most poor...
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Nigeria and The Law Of the Sea – Part 2
In part 1, we argued that the emergent militancy in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria may not be entirely altruistic on the part of the militants. We introduced the Law of the Sea and questioned the ability of the Nigerian State to patrol and defend its territorial waters.
The drive for national enclosure contributed...
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Nigeria and the Law Of the Sea – Part 1
There are many theories which have tried to explain the origins of the militancy in the Niger Delta region of Southern Nigeria. What is not in doubt is that this “militancy” had a political origin, not out of popular struggle, but from a power struggle between “leaders” in the region.
With the notoriety that the...
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Democracy in Africa: the long road ahead
With the recent conclusion of the primaries of both political parties in the United States, I could not help but feel a little dejected when the process is juxtaposed with the recent “democratic” processes in Africa. First, I was in Nigeria during the “political primaries” and can definitely report that another term needs to...
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