Seunkolade – Page 30 – Ideas and agenda for economic growth and human development in sub-saharan Africa

Improving smallholder farmers’ productivity through innovations’ uptake in Nigeria: can cooperatives make a difference?

by Seun Kolade
September 29, 2014

Nigeria, with an estimated population of 175 million people, is the most populous country in Africa, and about 50% of the population live in the rural areas. The total land area is 911,000sq.km, and about 80% of this is available for various agricultural purposes, including arable land, permanent crops, pastures, and irrigated land. Food

Institutions Viewpoints

Africa: between endogenous and exogenous forces

by Hassan Adebayo
September 29, 2014

Africa remains the zone of turmoil and the world’s poorest inhabited continent. It is a place blessed with every type of mineral resources, including coltan used in mobile phones, copper, forming 75% of the brass casings of allied shells fired at Passchendaele and the Somme in the WW1, uranium for the nuclear bombs dropped on

Viewpoints

Nigeria: nation-state or mere geographical expression? By Adebayo Justice Hassan

by Seun Kolade
September 27, 2014

However unpleasant, we must be frankly truthful about who we are, our history and what future holds for us as a society. Perhaps, that would cause us regret, sober reflection, the spirits to correct the mistakes and ultimately bequeath a better society to the posterity. Such is the frankness and grimness presented by Chimamanda Ngozi

Institutions

Evolution of civic consciousness by Seun Kolade

by Seun Kolade
September 27, 2014

I have deliberately refrained from the use of the phrase ‘political consciousness’ for two main reasons. One, because politics is associated, especially in country like Nigeria, with corruption and reckless looting of the commonwealth, attended by impunity and callous abuse of power. As such, people who wish to be associated with higher virtue, often spurred

Apologetics Publications

Predestination and free will

by Seun Kolade
May 1, 2012

A fresh look at Christian beliefs on the Ultimate Sovereignty of God and Significance of Humans Introduction One of big questions that have attracted the attention of people throughout the ages is the question of the significance of human beings in the context of the absolute, final sovereignty of the all-powerful, all-knowing God. Across

Institutions People Policy issues

Is development political?

by Seun Kolade
August 4, 2011

Today I had two persons in a group I belong raising concerns and making inquiries, on separate threads, about what should be our attitudes to partisan politics. The first question addressed the worry that this group, and the members thereof, can become an instrument for the self-interest of aspirants or holders of poltiical office. The second

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