Recommended reading by The Republic‘s editors, on Nigeria’s independence and wider political history.
Editors Picks: Independence Day
Pseudo Hope: A Discourse On Nigeria's Vision 2020 and Future Development
Nigeria may still be able to achieve its Vision 2020 goals, after 2020. Read More...
A Wake-Up Call? The Recent Travel Restrictions on Nigerians
It will be a grave mistake to treat Nigeria’s recent US visa ban as a one-off event, rather than a larger issue of limited leverage in a rapidly changing world that we seem ill-prepared to navigate. Read More...
The Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe Reclaiming Africa's Past, Writing Its Present, Shaping Its Future
Achebe had a keen grasp of how language demonstrated power, how power determined what was considered knowledge, and how this knowledge could become truth. Read More...
Zata Iya A History of Hausa Feminist Writings
The feminist champions of Hausa literature have their pens ready, full of fire, energy and imagination, emitting hidden truths through their words, and steadily reinventing the narratives of women in Northern Nigeria. Read More...
Lagbaja, Something for You The Legacy of Our Second Democracy Superhero
Lagbaja’s music is a symbolic bridge that connects the old to the new; the dangers, apprehension, and injustices of the military era to a new age of democracy and hope. Read More...
Nollywords Lionheart, Language and the Ghost of Our Colonial Past
Nollywood gives Nigerian creatives room to take a language that we may not have chosen and use it to tell our stories in the way that we choose. Read More...
Poet in the Time of Buhari Nigeria at 59
The country is burning, both in dream and in wakefulness. To which part of the flames must he, the firefighter, turn his hose? Read More...
Phobia or Scapegoatism? The Nigerianization of Crimes in South Africa
The rivalry between South Africa and Nigeria has affected the relationship between citizens of both countries to such an extent that they see themselves as being in a perpetual competition. Read More...
Reading Nigeria’s Political History What to Read on Politics in Post-independence Nigeria
The texts in this reading list, while not exhaustive, expand on how Nigerian politics arrived at what it is today. Read More...
When Nigerians, Zimbabweans, and Rhodesians Talked About Race Revisiting Nigeria – Zimbabwe Relations
While Nigerian support for Zimbabwean and broader southern African liberation was extensive, it was considerably more nuanced and more fractured than often remembered. Read More...
