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The Dark Side of Charity

Ijapa O·September 7, 2025

Kanyin Ajayi’s English adaptation of French author Marie NDiaye’s Rien d’humain reveals the dark side of charity while also asking audiences to consider how gender violence affects women of various classes. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria

Driving Through Life as a Fully Veiled Muslim Woman

Muti’ah Badruddeen·September 7, 2025

Mutia’ah Badrudeen documents how her decades of driving, as a fully veiled Muslim Yoruba woman across multiple countries, reveal prevailing social ideas about gender, identity and belonging. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria

Saving Nigeria, the Piggyvest Way

Oyindamola Depo-Oyedokun·August 24, 2025

In today’s digital age, history-making lightbulb moments don’t always strike in boardrooms or after soul-searching mountain hikes. Sometimes, they unfold casually on the X timeline. Piggyvest, now one of Africa’s leading wealth management platforms, began exactly with that: a tweet, a conversation and a simple idea that would quickly revolutionize Nigeria’s fintech industry. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria vol9-no3

The Dark Matter of Genetics

Mobólúwajídìde Joseph·August 24, 2025

From his mother’s community chemist shop in Enugu to a Toronto lab, Nigerian pharmacist Chukwunonso Nwabufo is building a device that could save lives by revealing how your genes respond to drugs, but his real revolution may be redefining what is ‘rare’ in medical research. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria vol9-no3

The Crisis of Modern Existence

Yinka Adetu·August 24, 2025

Kemi Adetiba’s To Kill a Monkey is a compelling demonstration of cinema’s ability to dramatize the damaged condition of modernity. Through its unflinching portrayal of individual disillusionment within systemic failures, the series channels the anxieties of a postcolonial, neoliberal world where identity and agency are constantly under siege. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria

How America Determines Nigerian Fuel Prices

Imad Musa·August 17, 2025

President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy and push to recalibrate the dollar has affected global capital flows, especially economies tethered to the dollar system. In Nigeria’s fuel sector, this manifests as dollar hegemony meets subsidy removal and state retreat, giving rise to a new private monopoly. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria

What Happened to Temi Dollface?

Edwin Okolo·August 17, 2025

Much has been said about Temi Dollface, the creative multitasker and musical pioneer who challenged stereotypes about what was possible for women in the Nigerian music industry. Yet, the most common refrain is that she was an artist before her time. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria

Tinubu’s Rough Road to the 2027 Elections Post-Buhari’s Death

Yusuf Omotayo·August 17, 2025

The death of former president Muhammadu Buhari has put President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in a precarious political position where he risks losing the support of the north, which can cost him re-election in 2027. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria

The Weight of Duty

Azubuike Obi·August 17, 2025

Azubuike Obi writes about the passing of his father and the weight of trying to step into his shoes as expected by society. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria

In Nigeria, to Err Is Human, Unless You Are Poor or a Woman

Ololade Faniyi·August 17, 2025

Untruth, injustice and the Nigerian way. A lesson in the difference between a ‘human’ connected Nigerian man and the everyday Nigerian/woman as reflected in the Ibom Air and Comfort Emmanson debacle. Read More...

August/September 2025 Nigeria

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