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• “The Hedley Bull – Ali Mazrui Dialogue as a Metaphor for IR,” E-International Relations (UK), 17 December 2025.

• “What Africa can learn from Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi,” by Seifudein Adem, Mail and Guardian (South Africa), 13 November 2025.

• “Toward a United States of the Horn of Africa,” by Seifudein Adem, The Reporter (Ethiopia), 6 September 2025; also in Mail and Guardian (South Africa), 24 October 2025.

• “Africa-China Relations: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ vs. ‘Wolf Warrior II’”, Mail and Guardian (South Africa), by Seifudein Adem, 4 October 2025 (online); 3-9 October 2025, p. 20 (Print Version).

• “Four Ways African Politics Can Learn from Japan,” The Reporter (Ethiopia), 6 September 2025, p. 20 (Print Version).

• “TICAD 9: The post-conference balance sheet,” by Seifudein Adem, Mail and Guardian (South Africa), 26 August 2025; also published in The Guardian (Nigeria), 9 September 2025.

• “Can Ethiopia Solve the West’s ‘puzzle’ about Africa?” by Seifudein Adem, The Mainichi (Japan), 8 October 2025; also published in Jamaica Gleaner (Jamaica), 18 August 2025.

• “Africa-Japan: Reflections on Tokyo International Conference on African Development,” by Seifudein Adem, Mail and Guardian (South Africa), 11 August 2025.

• “Future world order,” by Seifudein Adem, Mail and Guardian (South Africa)12 June 2025. Also published in Jamaica Gleaner (Jamaica), 22 June 2025.

• “Could Ali Mazrui’s nuclear pragmatism inspire practical policies?” by Seifudein Adem, Mail and Guardian (South Africa), 6 May 2025.

• “The Rise of Trump and the War in Ukraine: An African Perspective,” by Seifudein Adem, The Reporter (Ethiopia), 8 March 2025.

• “Should Trump Recognize Somaliland?” by Seifudein Adem, The Reporter (Ethiopia), 11 January 2025.

• “Ramifications of the US Recognising Somaliland as a State” by Seifudein Adem, Mail and Guardian (South Africa), 10 January 2025.

• “A warped reinvention of Ali Mazrui” by Adekeye Adebajo and Seifudein Adem, Mail and Guardian (South Africa), November 23, 2024. (With Adekeye Adebajo).

• “Remembering Ali Mazrui, a towering African intellectual who predicted many historical events” by Seifudein Adem, Daily Maverick (South Africa), 10 October 2024.

• “Somalia vs. Somaliland: Mazrui’s Last Word” by Seifudein Adem, The Reporter (Ethiopia), 3 February 2024.

• “Ethiopia Is Not Ready for Transitional Justice” by Seifudein Adem, Foreign Policy (USA), 14 March 2023. (With Abadir Ibrahim.)

• “Why Ethiopia Should Trust the West” by Seifudein Adem, Foreign Policy (USA), 10 November 2021.

• “What Ethiopia Can Learn from Japan” by Seifudein Adem, Foreign Policy (USA), 24 March 2021.

• “Why Is Mainstream International Relations Blind to Racism?” Foreign Policy, 3 July 2020. (With Gurminder Bhambra, Yolande Bouka, Randolph Persaud, Olivia Rutazibwa, Vineet Thakur, Duncan Bell, Karen Smith, and Toni Haastrup)

• “3 lessons Africa could learn from Japan” by Seifudein Adem, The Mainichi (Japan), 28 August 2019.

• “For Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia: constitutional insights from Ali Mazrui” by Seifudein Adem, Pambazuka News: Voices for Freedom and Justice (Kenya), 18 November 2018.

• “Images of Ethiopians in History and Religion: A Mazruiana Perspective” by Seifudein Adem, Pambazuka News: Voices for Freedom and Justice (Kenya), 25 November 2018.

• “Abiymania, Africa’s Triple Heritage and the Japanese Experience” by Seifudein Adem, Pambazuka News: Voices for Freedom and Justice (Kenya), 15 November 2018.

• “From Ali Mazrui to Abiy Ahmed: A Pan-Africanist Vision for a New Ethiopia” by Seifudein Adem, International Policy Digest (USA), 3 August 2018.

• “Abiy Ahmed epitomises Africa’s short memory of hate” by Seifudein Adem, Pambazuka News: Voices for Freedom and Justice (Kenya), 6 July 2018.

• “The Oromo of Eastern Africa: Ali Mazrui’s Perspective” by Seifudein Adem, International Policy Digest (USA), 26 February 2018; also published in Pambazuka News: Voices for Freedom and Justice (Kenya), 23 February 2018.

• “Five ways China can be a friend to Africa as its footprint grows ever larger” by Seifudein Adem, South China Morning Post (China), 29 November 2017.

• “A Win-Win Solution for the North Korean Stand-off?” by Seifudein Adem, Pambazuka News: Voices for Freedom and Justice (Kenya), 21 September 2017.

• “Japanese and Chinese attention is good for Africa” by Seifudein Adem, The Daily Nation (Kenya), 11 August 2016.

• “Ali Mazrui: Triple tropes and triads” by Seifudein Adem, Pambazuka News: Voices for Freedom and Justice (Kenya), 4 August 2016.

• “Why Mazrui remains peerless in Africa” by Kimani Njogu and Seifudein Adem, The Daily Nation (Kenya), 6 July 2016.

• “Sino-Optimism in Africa” by Seifudein Adem, International Policy Digest (USA), 2 February 2016.

• “Obama in Ethiopia: A Presidential Visit in Context,” by Seifudein Adem, Eurasia Review (USA), 30 July 2015.