January 19, 2025

Tinubu’s Precious Frenchship

IGWE KELECHI NJOKUJanuary 19, 2025

Amid growing anti-French sentiments in former African colonies, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s relationship with France raises the question of whether Nigeria will become Paris’s new inroad into Africa.

December 24/January 25Nigeria

Gboyega Oyetola’s Blue Ministry

S. AdeboteJanuary 19, 2025

Nigeria’s Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy aims to harness the nation’s vast maritime potential but can Minister Gboyega Oyetola successfully navigate these complex waters?

December 24/January 25Nigeria

Why Nigerians Love Agony Aunts

Victor Ola-MatthewJanuary 19, 2025

For a while now, agony aunt columns in Nigerian media have offered Nigerians some of the most convenient routes for addressing intimate and societal issues, and navigating the complexities of relationships and cultural norms.

December 24/January 25Nigeria

The Exclusion of the North African Novel in English from African Literature

Fayssal BensalahJanuary 19, 2025

The North African novel in English has garnered international accolades and scored representation in the global literary canon, but not yet in the African canon. Why is this still the case?

AfricaDecember 24/January 25

An Interpreter of Diasporic Nigerian Consciousness

AncciJanuary 19, 2025

In his fourth full-length poetry collection, Autobiomythography of, Ayokunle Falomo intertwines his personal and diaspora history with Nigeria’s colonial past, anatomizing the psychological and cultural impacts of colonialism on the Nigerian identity.

December 24/January 25NigeriaReading

7 Books Published Ten Years Ago That You’ll Love Reading This Year

Ìjàpá OJanuary 19, 2025

In our latest book recommendation, we have compiled a list of books first published ten years ago that you’ll love reading this year. These books, though published ten years ago, remain worth reading today!

December 24/January 25Read Something AfricanReading

‘My Writing Goal This Year Is to Follow My Creative Curiosities’ Arinze Ifeakandu’s First Draft

Arinze IfeakanduJanuary 19, 2025

Nigerian writer and author of God’s Children Are Broken Little Things, Arinze Ifeakandu, holds the Nigerian government responsible for the anxiety experienced by queer Nigerians in the country: ‘I believed that our ruling class was largely responsible, by entrenching such avoidable hardship, for much of the intimate fractures around us. And that the people’s (and the state’s) obstinate homophobia was to blame for what I considered the “nervous condition” of gay youth.’

December 24/January 25First DraftInterviewsNigeria

S2 EP3: The Ogoni Crisis

Wale LawalJanuary 19, 2025

How did the Ogonis’ peaceful protest turn into a nightmare that many in Ogoniland today are still shuddering from? How did the Ogonis’ hopes become weaponized against them? Let’s find out together. The third episode of the second season of The Republic is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.

NigeriaPodcastsThe Republic Podcast

Day: 19 January 2025

Tinubu’s Precious Frenchship

Gboyega Oyetola’s Blue Ministry

Why Nigerians Love Agony Aunts

The Exclusion of the North African Novel in English from African Literature

An Interpreter of Diasporic Nigerian Consciousness

7 Books Published Ten Years Ago That You’ll Love Reading This Year

‘My Writing Goal This Year Is to Follow My Creative Curiosities’ Arinze Ifeakandu’s First Draft

S2 EP3: The Ogoni Crisis

The New Realpolitik

Mayara Ferrão’s Blueprint for Decolonial AI Imagery

A Song for Cameroon

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