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Madam Has Interest

Ololade Faniyi·September 29, 2024

Despite their purported mission of advancing women’s interests, in Nigeria, institutionalized structures such as the first lady’s office and the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, more often reinforce than challenge patriarchal norms. Read More...

August/September 2024 Best of 2024: Essays Nigeria

Is Nigeria Better Served with Parliamentary Governance?

Afolabi Adekaiyaoja·September 29, 2024

Could a return to the parliamentary system provide the governance Nigerians yearn for? Read More...

August/September 2024 Best of 2024: Essays Nigeria

The President’s Lau Lau Spending

Yusuf Omotayo·September 29, 2024

Since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came into office, his economic policies have worsened the cost and standard of living of Nigerians. While the president’s rhetoric suggests he understands the sacrifices Nigerians are making, his lifestyle and the excesses of those around him, suggest otherwise. Read More...

August/September 2024 Best of 2024: Essays Nigeria

How October 1 Became a National Treasure

Yinka Adetu·September 29, 2024

Ten years since its release, Kunle Afolayan’s October 1 remains a brilliant cinematic exercise at using Nigeria’s independence story to investigate deeper, systemic issues rooted in our country’s colonial experience. Read More...

August/September 2024 Nigeria

Nigeria Needs a New Progressive Movement

Abel B. S. Gaiya·September 22, 2024

Nigeria needs a new progressive movement; one that is not domain-constrained and disuniting like the Izala Society and Christian Social Movement of Nigeria, not extremist and exclusionary like Boko Haram, not tactically constrained like SERAP, not discrete like the End Bad Governance protest movement, not ideologically constrained like the Obidient movement, and not diachronically and synchronically constrained like Nkrumahism. Read More...

August/September 2024 Best of 2024: Essays Nigeria

Listening to Five Years of Burna Boy’s ‘African Giant’

Fortune Akande·September 22, 2024

Five years after its release, Burna Boy’s fourth studio album, African Giant, continues to resonate with listeners. Has it earned its place as a modern classic? Read More...

August/September 2024 Nigeria

The Artist Archiving Igbo Life and Spirituality through Indigenous Aesthetics

Iruoma Chukwuemeka·September 22, 2024

How Chiagoziem Nneamaka Orji is making Igbo culture and spirituality more accessible through digital art. Read More...

August/September 2024 Nigeria

Nigeria’s Shiny New Loan

Dotun Odunlade·September 15, 2024

Is the recent $2.25 billion loan from the World Bank a lifeline or trap door? Read More...

August/September 2024 Nigeria

The Last Time I Saw My Father

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto·September 15, 2024

In the fading light of my father’s life, I watched helplessly as the man I once knew as vibrant and full of life slowly withered away. Though I loved him fiercely as a son, I did not realize how great my father was until years after his death. Read More...

August/September 2024 Best of 2024: Essays Father's Day Nigeria

A Poet’s Lament of a World on the Precipice

Eniolá Abdulroqeeb Arówólò·September 15, 2024

In her debut collection, Cadaver of Red Roses, Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi renders an evocative and poetic journey through past tragedies, protesting against war and poor leadership. Read More...

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