John O. Ifediora A common argument adduced in defense of Africa’s abysmal development pattern or lack of it is that…
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A long-standing economic theory commonly known as “Economic Convergence” postulates that as world economies develop they would inexorably attain the same level of development through trade based on comparative advantage, technology transfer through direct investment and job out-sourcing.
Developing countries, since the end of the Second World War and the unset of the “Cold War,” have relied on…
The research by Carol Graham on the differential impact of globalization on various sub-groups that constitute the income distribution strata…
This book offers a comprehensive, research-driven analysis of the persistent economic underdevelopment in Africa, with Nigeria as a central case…
John O. Ifediora @ifediora_john All political dynasties eventually fail, but their demise come much quicker if the reasons for their…
Click here to download the PDF version of this journal John O. Ifediora A purposive thought of a united Nigeria…
Article credit. WHEN THE Mutambaras’ first son was a about 18 months old they began to worry about his hearing. The…
BOOK Except BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘CHURCHILL’s EMPIRE’. Richard Toye. Prologue. On 10 December 1954 a visitor from East Africa…
The defeat of Germany in the Second World War, and the subsequent birth of the United Nations in 1945 ushered in the modern human rights regime. Prior to this post-war era, human rights was not a salient feature in the parlance of international law, and for good reason; nation-states were guided by the civility of the ‘good-neighbor,’ which meant that ‘good-neighbors’ do not interfere or unilaterally intervene in matters of purely domestic character outside their territorial competence. Formally, the ‘good-neighbor’ ethos came under the umbrella of state sovereignty, and to a large extent, continued to dictate how states dealt with one another even after the advent of the UN, and the consequence on human rights movement remained unchanged: States continued to regard human rights as domestic matters that should be dealt with domestically, any outside intervention was considered ‘bad form’ and an affront to the norm of state sovereignty. That was then!