Creator
Adekeye Adebajo
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)
UN Peacekeeping in Crisis
As global conflicts surge to historic highs, UN peacekeeping operations face severe strain from unprecedented financial cuts, US arrears, and geopolitical gridlock in the…
Is China really a champion of the Global South?
While China portrays itself as a champion of developing nations, its foreign policy reveals a status-quo superpower focused more on its geopolitical rivalry with the US than…
Nigeria’s perilous French gambit
Nigeria’s increasingly close relationship with France marks a departure from six decades of foreign policy aimed at reducing French influence in West Africa. An increasingly…
The Populist vs. the Pope
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…
Why is Trump waging war on Somali immigrants?
His vision for America is defined as much by whom he lets in as by whom he keeps out
Pax Americana: Same difference
By his own account, America’s mission in Venezuela is to seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves
The white man’s burden trumps Nigeria
US President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide”
The Black Atlantic’s quest for reparations
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…
The UN at 80: Adapt or Die
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.…
‘Fortress Europe’s’ African victims
The European Union’s decade-long crackdown on African migrants is just as appalling as Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies
A panoramic view of a continent
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’s wrestling match with Trump
South Africa has laid a solid foundation as G20 chair, undeterred by the US’s disruptions
Global Africa’s quest for reparations for crimes against humanity
This excerpt is from the recently published book, The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden: Slavery, Colonialism and Reparations (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2024)
A warped reinvention of Ali Mazrui
Prominent scholar Paul Zeleza failed to reflect the intellectual who challenged conventional wisdom
Burna Boy builds beat bridges
Afrofusion Nigerian superstar’s ‘Twice as Tall’ recognised as best world music album in 2021