Odunsi the Engine’s ‘rare.’ Authenticity and the Alté Lineage in Nigerian Pop Culture
In his debut album, rare., Odunsi and his collaborators re-articulate an African creative philosophy of being many things at the same time. Read More...
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The Blacker the Berry Race and the Devaluation of Black Lives in America
Three books explain how America's construction of race continues to drive the devaluation of black lives in modern American society. Read More...
Black Orpheus and the Organic Intellectual Remembering Abiola Irele and Raufu Mustapha
This essay honours two polyglot Nigerian intellectuals—Harvard University’s Abiola Irele and Oxford University’s Raufu Mustapha—who died abroad a month apart from each other in July and August 2017 respectively. Read More...
What is Feminism? Feminism, by the Book
s early as 1808, Francois Marie Charles Fourier, a strange and brilliant utopian socialist and philosopher, preached that...
Reading China What to Read on Africa-China Relations
Sino-African relations have waxed stronger in recent years, developing from political engagement in the 1960s to trade, economic...
Reading Feminism What to Read on Feminism
What better time than now to start to engage—or re-engage—with feminism? Here's what to read on the movement. Read More...
Reading Biafra What to Read on the Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Biafran War), from 1967 to 1970, was a complex conflict...
A Laughing Giant The Everlasting Humour of Chinua Achebe
In 1998, Chinua Achebe, already by this time the father of modern African literature by several accounts, introduced himself with a joke. Read More...
August Reading 2017 Half-Year Reading from The Republic's Contributors
s we settle into the second half of 2017, The Republic is pleased to announce the first instalment of...
Giving Voice to One People’s Grief Derek Walcott and the Life-Giving Force of Poetry
n the 17th of March 2017, the Nobel prize-winning poet and playwright, Derek Walcott, passed away on...
