PALI LEHOHLA | When bread trumps people, the visa is gold: the dilemma of rock-solid, sky-high imaginary walls

To become a global powerhouse, Africa must dismantle colonial-era borders that fracture the continent and limit movement and trade

13 October 2024 - 20:36 By PALI LEHOHLA

We were once assigned to review the mandate of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). A Nigerian intellectual, Prof Adebayo Olukoshi, left us in stitches when he related to some of the problems we identified in the bureaucracy. He introduced a Nigerian terminology of knowingly undermining the bureaucracy by the bureaucrats...

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