Promise Frank Ejiofor, Author at The Republic

The Right to Love The Fallacy of Homophobia in Postcolonial Africa

Promise Frank Ejiofor·February 21, 2022

‘African homophobia’ is a distinct variant of global homophobia because it is based on unique theoretical foundations that blend prejudices imported from non-African (mostly Western and Islamic) contexts. Read more. Read More...

Best of 2022 February/March 2022

The Madness of Competition Squid Game in the Nigerian Imagination

Promise Frank Ejiofor·January 24, 2022

Much like Nigeria, in Squid Game, players emerge victorious not really due to their skills but due in large measure to cheating. Success is a matter of survival of the fittest but the fittest is the trickster. Read more. Read More...

Best of 2022 December 21/January 22 Nigeria

The New Mobility Apartheid? The Case for Vaccine Cosmopolitanism

Promise Frank Ejiofor·May 26, 2021

Vaccine passports without vaccine harmonization would tear the entire world apart and suspend the human right―the right of free movement―of the world’s poorest people. Read more. Read More...

April/May 2021

‘Writing never dies.’ Promise Frank Ejiofor's First Draft

Promise Frank Ejiofor·March 5, 2021

Author of ‘A Post-Coup World’ and ‘Looting as Cartharsis’, Promise Frank Ejiofor, grew up on books. ‘I grew to love literature to the point that I feared that I would go mad if I did not read or write something every week.’ Read More...

February/March 2021 First Draft Interviews

Transcending Economics Racism and Anti-Racism in the Modern World

Promise Frank Ejiofor·March 1, 2021

To address racism, we must transcend economics and seek avenues through which different groups can interact under conditions of mutual interdependence and equality. Read more. Read More...

February/March 2021

Looting as Catharsis #EndSARS and the Crisis of Governance in Nigeria

Promise Frank Ejiofor·December 22, 2020

#EndSARS is not just one massive protest for police reform or even for democratic accountability. It is a reckoning meant to counter the crisis in governance whilst the looting which happened in the aftermath of the protests is a catharsis. Read more. Read More...

December 20/January 21 vol4-no4

This photo is for our essay on A Post-Coup World

A Post-Coup World? Mali and the Slow Decline of Military Dictatorships

Promise Frank Ejiofor·October 7, 2020

What the decline of military leaders in Africa portends is that African peoples are gradually coming to terms with the fact that the state must be accountable to them and should not be the exclusive preserve of a privileged few. Read more. Read More...

Mali October/November 2020

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