Nigeria: News, Stories and Analysis.
Who Was Tanimowo Ogunlesi?
Tanimowo Ogunlesi was a women’s rights activist, teacher, and founding member of the women’s section of Obafemi Awolowo’s, Action Group (AG). Read more. Read More...
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Why Is Everyone Talking About the 2021 Electoral Amendment Act? RxNews 20 December 2021
Nigeria’s elections are expensive and inefficient. An electoral amendment act proposes possible improvements, its deadline passed yesterday and there’s no indication it has been signed. Read more. Read More...
Are Nigerians Dancing to a ‘Cult Anthem’? RxNews 17 December 2021
Criticism of the ‘Ameno’ remix has coincided with a documentary on cultism in Nigeria that The BBC’s Africa Eye aired on 13 December 2021. Read more. Read More...
A Barrel of Rotten Apples How a Judicial Crisis Has Flourished Under Buhari’s Watch
The problems of the judicial system in Nigeria predate both the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and even this current republic. Read more. Read More...
Feminism vs Womanism Scanning Buchi Emecheta’s Oeuvre
The liberation of the Black woman and the proclamation of this side-lined group as essential and complex parts of womanhood is the ultimate theme of Emecheta’s writing. Read more. Read More...
Kehinde: Mother, Woman Identity Formation in Buchi Emecheta’s ‘Kehinde’
In 'Kehinde‘, Emecheta used brutal ‘documentary-style’ realism to showcase the plights of women in patriarchal societies, and often, the question that lay beneath was, what would our world be if women were freed from toxic gender roles? Read more. Read More...
‘I Now Know How to Write in Short Bursts.’ Ainehi Edoro-Glines’ First Draft
Academic and founder and editor of Brittle Paper, Ainehi Edoro-Glines, has often heard that the African novel is simply the European novel with African themes. Read our interview. Read More...
Buchi Emecheta’s ‘The Joys Of Motherhood’ A Precursor to Contemporary Nigerian Feminist Texts
‘The Joys of Motherhood’ could be considered as one of the forebears of feminist issues on reproductive justice and culture within the rich Nigerian literary tradition. Read more. Read More...
‘There’s Always Something New to Learn.’ Michael Elegbede’s First Draft
Head Chef at ÌTÀN Test Kitchen, Michael Elegbede, grew up in a family of chefs. The last book he enjoyed was Life, On The Line by Grant Achatz. Read our interview. Read More...
Love and War The War That Stood Between My Ex and Me
Our ‘us’ dissolved into thin air because the trauma of war that haunted our fathers shaped our view of love and without a conscious awareness of it, led us to make impossible demands of each other. Read more. Read More...
