Akinbode Fasakin

Jan 19, 2025 | republic.com.ng | Fayssal Bensalah |Akinbode Fasakin |Adeleke Ogunnoiki |Judith Hassan

Perhaps a latecomer to ​​pan-African ideology, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was nevertheless unique in his contribution to pan-Africanism. He urged all those working for a united global Africa to consider pan-Africanism as not an end unto itself, but an indispensable means toward a broader horizon of a new humanity free from imperialism and exploitation.

Nov 18, 2024 | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Akinbode Fasakin

The process of enemy construction from acts of protests resonates with the Copenhagen School of security studies’ notion of securitization. According to the Copenhagen School, all countries—liberal-democratic but also non-democracies—engage in the social construction of ‘enemies’ as threats and espouse the need to take urgent, often extraordinary, measures to deal with such threats.