While Nigerian support for Zimbabwean and broader southern African liberation was extensive, it was considerably more nuanced and more fractured than often remembered.
Panashe Chigumadzi’s provocative essay, Why I’m No Longer Talking to Nigerians About Race, has generated a number of responses. One of these, by Sa’eed Husaini, notes that there remains a racialized component to Nigerian politics: ‘the north has long feared that the stronger British colonial influence on the south is a