Abel B. S. Gaiya, Author at The Republic

Building a Pro-Regional Coalition in Nigeria

Abel B. S. Gaiya·May 25, 2025

ECOWAS has underperformed in its trade integration and crisis response mandates. Nigeria has to step up its game in improving effective regional cooperation in West Africa. To accomplish this, a strong pro-regional coalition and ideology need to be formed in the country. Read More...

April/May 2025 ECOWAS ECOWAS Week 2025 Nigeria

African Cooperation in the Age of Anti-Globalization

Abel B. S. Gaiya·May 22, 2025

Unlike nineteenth-century multipolarity where Africa had limited internal interaction and post-colonial bipolarity when South Africa was under apartheid, the present state of multipolarity under anti-globalization may create sufficient pressure and open up a window for Africa’s powers to pursue closer partnerships with each other. Read More...

Africa April/May 2025 vol9-no2

Nigeria Needs a New Progressive Movement

Abel B. S. Gaiya·September 22, 2024

Nigeria needs a new progressive movement; one that is not domain-constrained and disuniting like the Izala Society and Christian Social Movement of Nigeria, not extremist and exclusionary like Boko Haram, not tactically constrained like SERAP, not discrete like the End Bad Governance protest movement, not ideologically constrained like the Obidient movement, and not diachronically and synchronically constrained like Nkrumahism. Read More...

August/September 2024 Best of 2024: Essays Nigeria

A Sahel-less ECOWAS

Abel B. S. Gaiya·April 2, 2024

The announcement by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger of their exit from ECOWAS, 24 years after Mauritania’s exit in 2000, threatens to de-Sahelize the regional bloc. It marks more fundamental problems associated with spatial inequality and its influence in West African national and regional politics that are yet to be addressed head on. Read More...

Africa April/May 2024

Can Africa’s Coup Problem be solved? Why Africa’s Coups Appear Unending

Abel B. S. Gaiya·November 4, 2023

The recurrence of military coups d’état in Africa is the result of the continent's clear structural fragilities and has no easy solutions. The fragilities may even culminate in a more generalized crisis that precipitates a more widespread coup contagion. Read More...

Africa October/November 2023

Crisis Pan-Africanism The Drivers of Institutionalized Pan-Africanism

Abel B. S. Gaiya·September 1, 2023

The absence of a strong external military threat for Africa has created an atmosphere whereby attempts at institutionalizing pan-Africanism are typically weak and it has typically been through the pressures of crises (warfare, famines and geopolitical competition) that more substantive efforts at regional cooperation have emerged. Read More...

Africa August/September 2023 vol7-no3

Of Borders and Economy Can Nigeria’s Next President Chart a New Africa Foreign Economic Policy?

Abel B. S. Gaiya·May 22, 2023

Nigeria has been one of the major hurdles to economic integration across West Africa, this author argues. It is one of the most inward-looking developing countries in the world, but will the next president be able to reverse this trend? Read More...

April/May 2023 Nigeria vol7-no2

West Africa’s Slow-Onset Crisis The Evolving Nature of Violence in West Africa

Abel B. S. Gaiya·April 4, 2023

West Africa has experienced evolving violence since independence, first by recording the highest share of military coup frequency in Africa between 1960 and 1989, then in the Mano River regional crisis of 1989-2003, and finally terrorism in the Lake Chad region and the Liptako-Gourma region from 2010 till date. Read More...

April/May 2023 Nigeria

‘I Am Currently Writing Two Books’ Abel Gaiya’s First Draft

Abel B. S. Gaiya·March 31, 2023

Nigerian author and development researcher, Abel Gaiya, believes West Africa is going in circles. Read More...

February/March 2023 First Draft Interviews Nigeria

The Enduring Malformation of West Africa Why Economics Alone Cannot Explain West Africa’s Slow Development

Abel B. S. Gaiya·February 9, 2023

Beyond leveraging the global push for repatriation and calling for the return of stolen cultural artefacts, the Nigerian government needs to change its attitude towards cultural art to guarantee the Benin Bronzes a meaningful future at home. Read More...

Best of 2023: Essays February/March 2023 Nigeria vol7-no1

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