Academic Mirror

Civil Society Organisations and enterpreneurial politics_ By Saifullahi Abdul Karim - AfricanDevelop - Citadel of Excellent Developmental Reporting Concept of civil society is as old as the democracy and philosophy of popular participation. civil society everywhere is a bewildering array of the good, the bad and the outright bizarre. That is to say, civil society is extraordinarily heterogeneous and the groups that comprise it can be business o...

The nasty game that become activism now_ By Bashir Kabir - AfricanDevelop - Citadel of Excellent Developmental Reporting I look at the modus operandi of our civil society activists (in Kano) today and couldn’t help but feel disgusted. It’s mediocre, its laughable and absolute disappointment to the real course as it is. Why is it that we (Nigerians) as human beings with the capacity of intellectually placing things...