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Reading Muslim Feminism What to Read on Feminism and Islam

Wardah Abbas·August 11, 2021

Muslim feminism is still very much an understudied field—the texts in this reading list set a path for understanding the various forms of feminism amongst Muslim women. Read more. Read More...

August/September 2021 Library

A Particular Kind of Bildungsroman Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind of Black Man

Lanre Apata·May 1, 2020

Tope Folarin’s ambitious novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man, offers a grand examination of provincial societies and, ultimately, the human condition. Read More...

April/May 2020 Library

Amos Tutuola’s Unwonted Predicament A Writer's Many Controversies

Sanya Osha·August 30, 2019

Who really was Amos Tutuola? An amazing but naïve primitivist? An ethnographic curiosity? A quasi-plagiarist of the fantastical creations of D.O. Fagunwa? The most likely answer: he was all of these but also more. Read More...

August/September 2019 Library

No More Insufficient Funds Yahoo Yahoo and Cybercrime’s International Ecosystem

Adewale Oloworekende·August 28, 2019

Nigeria is not alone in cybercrime. But among a considerable number of Nigerians, cybercrime or Yahoo Yahoo exists at the intersection of crime and means of livelihood; wrong but necessary. Read More...

August/September 2019 Library

#TooBigToLike Questioning ‘Choice’ in Global Surveillance Capitalism

Aarshin Karande·August 20, 2019

Big Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, exhibit a new stage of corporate power. These organizations are so large, our views on them are inconsequential—they have effectively become too big to like. Read More...

August/September 2019 Library

Siblinghood and the Psychology of Trauma Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer

Lanre Apata·August 16, 2019

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer uses the expansiveness of the prose form to ask, ‘how far can we go for people we love?’ Read More...

August/September 2019 Library

Reading Nigeria’s Political History What to Read on Politics in Post-independence Nigeria

Farida Funmi Akanji·June 23, 2019

The texts in this reading list, while not exhaustive, expand on how Nigerian politics arrived at what it is today. Read More...

Editors Picks: Independence Day June/July 2019 Library

Colouring inside the Politically Personal Nanjala Nyabola's Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics

Stella Njogo·May 9, 2019

In her latest book, Nanjala Nyabola paints the complexities of Kenyan politics as underlies the relationship between Kenyans and digital technology. Read More...

Library vol3-no2

A Poultry Farmer’s Song of Burden in the Face of Fate Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities

Lanre Apata·May 9, 2019

In his latest book, Chigozie Obioma draws readers and critics to the understanding of a man through the metaphysics of existence. Read More...

Library vol3-no2

Visual Politics in Apartheid South Africa How Images Shaped the Anti-Apartheid Movement

Emmanuela Onyilofor·March 1, 2019

In the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, images were used as weapons against the oppressive government to attack the injustices of the system. Read More...

Library South Africa vol3-no1

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