Creator
Adekeye Adebajo, a professor and a senior research fellow at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, served on UN missions in South Africa, Western Sahara and Iraq. He is the author of The Splendid Tapestry of African Life: Essays on A Resilient Continent, its Diaspora, and the World (Routledge, 2025) and Global Africa: Profiles in Courage, Creativity and Cruelty (Routledge, 2024). He is also the editor of The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Manchester University Press, 2025)
The war of words between Pope Leo XIV and US President Donald Trump has revived the age-old clash between the sacred and the secular. But Trump has severely misjudged the “soft…
His vision for America is defined as much by whom he lets in as by whom he keeps out
By his own account, America’s mission in Venezuela is to seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves
US President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide”
The geopolitical environment is arguably not conducive to pursuing reparations for slavery and colonialism. But Africa and its diaspora in the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe…
With US President Donald Trump blithely brushing aside the United Nations’ many achievements, it is worth revisiting the organization’s successes and failures over the years.…
The European Union’s decade-long crackdown on African migrants is just as appalling as Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies
My latest book is an analysis of Africa, from the perspective of 30 years of study, which offers an overview of the decades since the fall of apartheid in 1994
South Africa has laid a solid foundation as G20 chair, undeterred by the US’s disruptions
This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)
Prominent scholar Paul Zeleza failed to reflect the intellectual who challenged conventional wisdom
Afrofusion Nigerian superstar’s ‘Twice as Tall’ recognised as best world music album in 2021
The cerebral 57-year-old Meles Zenawi, who ruled Ethiopia for the past 21 years, died this week. He was a man of many parts.
The recently released draft of the first South African Defence Review is too soft on the threats posed by unaddressed developmental issues.
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf must count as one of the most political acts in the history of the prize.
The role of various African countries in Gaddafi’s demise is far from clear cut.
The Republican Forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, are in the final stages of a violent showdown in the capital, Abidjan.
While Africa has the right to be sceptical about the West’s intentions, it also has a duty to protect Libyan citizens.
The man who overthrew a monarch 41 years ago is now but a pale shadow of his predecessor.
<b>Adekeye Adebajo</b> reflects on the recent events in Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan and Tunisia in light of the AU’s biannual summit.
