Author: Babatunde Fagbayibo

[Reabetswe Mampane is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria.  Babatunde Fagbayibo is a professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria.] In one of the scenes in the movie Sinners, the Irish vampire, Remmick, employs a form of ‘fellowship rhetoric’ to entice the Black patrons of the juke joint to...

[Babatunde Fagbayibo is a Professor of International Law, University of South Africa.] In 2017, I wrote an editorial criticising the decision of Third World Quarterly to publish Bruce Gilley’s offensive article on the need to bring colonialism back to Africa. Although the journal eventually withdrew the article due to widespread opposition, the point was made. As I noted in the piece, “Would Third World Quarterly (or...