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‘Writing is Like a Muscle’ Oyinkan Braithwaite’s First Draft

Oyinkan Braithwaite·January 28, 2022

Author of My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite, got the inspiration for her novel while reading about the black widow spider. Read our interview. Read More...

December 21/January 22 First Draft Interviews Nigeria

Who Was Wuraola Esan?

Tomisin Awosika·January 27, 2022

Wuraola Esan was a pioneering Nigerian women’s rights activist who became the first woman member of the Nigerian Senate in the First Republic. Read more. Read More...

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The Madness of Competition Squid Game in the Nigerian Imagination

Promise Frank Ejiofor·January 24, 2022

Much like Nigeria, in Squid Game, players emerge victorious not really due to their skills but due in large measure to cheating. Success is a matter of survival of the fittest but the fittest is the trickster. Read more. Read More...

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What Does Africapitalism Actually Mean? Power, Gender and the Promise of Africapitalism

Immaculata Abba·January 20, 2022

All forms of capitalism, including Africapitalism, ultimately, depend on the devaluation and exploitation of essential domestic labour, which women still perform almost exclusively in Africa. Read more. Read More...

December 21/January 22 Nigeria

Who Was Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo?

Tomisin Awosika·January 20, 2022

Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo was a pioneering Nigerian feminist, activist, and civil servant who in 1968 became the permanent secretary of Home Affairs and Information in Nigeria’s Western Region. Read more. Read More...

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Looking for God To Find God, I Had to Leave Religion Behind

Ugochukwu Damian Okpara·January 19, 2022

I grew up wanting to get closer to God. But to find God I had to leave religion behind. Read more. Read More...

December 21/January 22 Nigeria The Black Atlantic

Review: Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad The Women in Lagos are Just as Crazy

N. F. Kenure·January 18, 2022

Lagos men are not for the faint-hearted and Kuku’s women are not the women who ‘sit down and take it’. Read more. Read More...

December 21/January 22 Nigeria

Data, Public Interest and National Security The Politics of Data Security in Nigeria

Osivue Itseumah·January 17, 2022

The Nigerian government is trying to create a database that links mobile phone users’ SIM cards with their National Identity Numbers—but can any government today be trusted with citizens’ sensitive data? Read more. Read More...

December 21/January 22 Nigeria

Why Is Everyone Talking About the 2021 Electoral Amendment Act? RxNews 20 December 2021

Chiamaka Dike·January 14, 2022

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...

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