25 July 2026
Features

Education or Extinction: Why Africa Must Rethink Its Schools to Save Its Future

When Professor Toyin Falola stood before students and staff at Karl Kumm University, Vom, to deliver the institution’s first distinguished lecture, his message was loud and clear: Africa’s future depends on how it rethinks education today. Education, he argued, has always been tightly linked to power — political, economic, and social. From colonial times to

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Editorials

Rethinking Classrooms: Centering Culture and History in Nigerian Education

If you walk into many Nigerian classrooms Today, you will see students who can name foreign countries and celebrities. However, ask them to discuss Nigerian heroes or significant events in the country’s history, and many will struggle to find something to say. This is the problem that a group called Youth Orientation for Development (YOD)

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Editorials

From Ivory Tower to Hardship: Nigeria’s Neglected Retired Professors

For over five decades, Professor Victor Anosa walked the hallowed halls of the University of Ibadan, imparting knowledge, mentoring generations, and making significant contributions to veterinary science. However, today, in his twilight years, he shares the same fate as many retired Nigerian academics – struggling to survive on meagre pensions and relying on their children

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