“Decolonize this place!” “Decolonize the university!” “Decolonize the museum!” In the past few years, decolonization has gained new political currency — inside the borders of the old colonial powers. Indigenous movements have reclaimed the mantle of “decolonization” in protests like those at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access pipeline. Students from South Africa to Britain have marched under its banner to challenge Eurocentric curriculums. Museums such as the Natural History Museum in New York and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Brussels have been compelled to confront their representation of colonized African and Indigenous peoples. But what is “decolonization?”…

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, China could have become the development bank, central bank, and medical supplier to the world. By choosing unprovoked aggression over enlightened generosity, President Xi Jinping's regime has squandered that historic opportunity and possibly also revealed its true character. Until recently, China was unmistakably trying to be a hegemon in the image of the United States, increasingly complementing its growing hard power with soft power. But China seems to have missed its opportunity to build a serious rival to, or even supplant, the existing world economic order fashioned by the US following World War…

The third week of July, this year, spanning from 20th to 26th, was one that Nigerians are not likely to forget in a hurry. It was a week that some notable players in the political turf proved to Nigerians, especially practitioners and fans of the Nollywood industry, that the nation had long ignored their rich endowment in the thespian art of acting as they treated us to charming performances of theatre of the absurd. The week had opened with the continuation of the House of representatives’ probe into allegations of reeking graft and financial putrefaction in the activities and operations…

We used to say here in Ghana, half in jest, half in truth, that you can find a Ghanaian in every country in the world. I've heard of Ghanaians in Greenland, Iceland and Papua New Guinea. I admit, I haven't heard about a Ghanaian in the Faroe Islands, which is my idea of the most exotic and faraway place, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of us is there. From the middle of the 1970s through to the end of the 1990s, circumstances had conspired to turn us into a travelling people. Ghanaians abroad are happy to turn out…