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Every Other Day, Disorganized In the Chaos of Nigerian Concerts, We Only See Ourselves
To understand how Nigerians imagine and practise accountability, look at our music concerts. Read More...
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Women, More or Less A Political Solution to Gender-Based Violence
To end gender-based violence start by including more women in politics. Women make up half of Nigeria's population, but they have never held more than 15 per cent of elective offices. There has never even been a female governor or president in Nigeria. Read More...
Who Was Kenneth Onwuka Dike? Remembering the Father of Modern African Historiography
For Kenneth Onwuka Dike, history was a tool not only useful for discovering the past but also for planning the future. Dike is recognized for countering the Western claim that Africa lacked history because African societies relied on oral tradition as opposed to written records. Read More...
What is a ‘Consensus Candidate’?
What is a ‘consensus candidate’? Read More...
A New Chapter for African Artefacts? Editor’s Foreword: The Republic V6, N3
African artefacts are increasingly being returned to African governments and, with this, the debate on the repatriation of African artefacts from the West is evolving. Our latest issue, A New Chapter for African Artefacts?, looks at the African ideas, politics and stakeholders shaping this debate. Read More...
‘There Cannot Be a Single Answer’ Chika Okeke-Agulu on the Rightful Location of African Artefacts
Though they are crucial to the movement, advocating for the restitution of stolen African artefacts cannot be left to sympathetic actors of the West, Chika Okeke-Agulu argues. He says, ‘It is no surprise that most of the important scholarly publication on royal Benin art have been by researchers overseas who have better access to museums and collections that benefitted, directly or indirectly, from colonial-era looting.’ Read More...
‘Creativity on the Continent Has Always Been a Continuum’ Victor Ehikhamenor on the Resilience of Benin Artistry
African artefacts looted, stolen, and forcefully taken belong to the African communities they were taken from in the Africa continent, Victor Ehikhamenor argues. He says, ‘In discussing restitution, we must also let the world know that creativity on the continent has always been a continuum, there was no break.’ Read More...
The Bittersweet Aftertaste of Victory When University Campaigns to Repatriate Stolen Art Take a Toll
Six years after a group of Cambridge students first demanded that the Benin Bronze cockerel, ‘Okukor’, be returned to the Benin Kingdom, the university returned the cockerel. For some of those activists, including this author, the return means victory but also worry. Read More...
What Happens if a Nominated Candidate Dies Before the Election?
What happens if a nominated candidate dies before the elections? Read More...
‘I Write to Gain a Better Understanding of Who I Am’ Zainab Kuku’s First Draft
Nigerian writer, Zainab Kuku, believes any Afrobeats musician that is currently highly-rated is deservedly so. Read More...
