Ademola Adeleke

University of Lagos | Unilag · Department of History & Stragegic Studies University of Lagos

With its size, human and material resources, Nigeria should be the foremost economic and military power in Africa. This is the natural destiny of the country. Unfortunately, Nigeria has failed to actualise its potential. The country remains from all indices a poor country, with over three-quarters of its population living below the poverty line. Th...

Percy Spender, the Australian Foreign Minister in 1950, played a critical role in the establishment of the Colombo Plan. The programme was proposed by Commonwealth ministers in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in January 1950. In May, Spender hosted the first meeting of the Consultative Committee to work out the modalities for the aid programme. Using Canadian...

The racially demoniated socio-economic and political system that prevailed in South Africa before the abolition of apartheid in 1994 spawned two parallel nationalisms, Afrikaner nationalism and African nationalism. The the first was an ideology of domination and the second an ideology of liberation. The article analyzes the competition for dominanc...

Although Islam is not indigenous to Hausaland it has, along with the Hausa language, become the most distinguishing feature of Hausa culture. The article interrogates the historical processes that led to the Islamisation of Hausa culture. Introduction In 1871, the British anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor, defined culture as 'that complex whole w...

The Colombo Plan is the earliest instance of the phenomenon of donor cooperation in which a major player like the United States buys into an ongoing aid programme for strategic purposes. The plan was initiated by the British Commonwealth in 1950 to promote economic development in South and Southeast Asia as a prophylactic against the threat which c...

This article is a study in the politics of aid, focussing on Burma's participation in the Colombo Plan, an aid programme promoted by the West as a prophylactic against the resurgence of communism in South and Southeast Asia during the Cold War. At independence in 1948 the government of Burma had repudiated its Commonwealth links for a foreign polic...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) was established in May 1975 as an organisation to promote the development of the sub-region, and for 15 years did not deviate from this mandate. The 16 member-states – Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nig...