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Tosin Oshinowo

‘We Must Rethink Architecture’ Tosin Oshinowo’s First Draft

Tosin Oshinowo·February 21, 2025
Nigerian architect and designer, Tosin Oshinowo, believes that, now more than ever, the growing awareness of the climate crisis makes it imperative for architects to rethink building practices: ‘The next generation of practitioners will likely be better equipped than mine, as sustainability is now a fundamental part of their training and practice. With the right encouragement, we can expect to see meaningful change.’ Read More...
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minimum wage

Nigeria’s 70,000 Naira Sham

Juliet Nnaji·February 16, 2025
The Nigerian government recently approved an increase in the country’s minimum wage from N30,000 (approximately US$20) to N70,000 (approximately $47). While this increase aims to ease the financial strain on many Nigerians, the reality of the new minimum wage for the average citizen remains harsh. Read More...
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Mambar Pierrette

The Power of Looking at the Everyday

Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing·February 16, 2025
In her narrative feature debut, Mambar Pierrette, Cameroonian documentarian, Rosine Mbakam, captures life in crisis-stricken Cameroon and the resilience and fortitude that Cameroonian women must embody every day. Read More...
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Cameroon

Cameroon’s Hi-Tech Illusion

Georges Macaire Eyenga·February 16, 2025
Cameroon is currently led by the world’s oldest president, who, in recent years, has taken significant steps to ‘modernize’ the state through digital technology. With Paul Biya seeking re-election in 2025, Cameroonians have an added reason to pay critical attention to his national technological agenda. Read More...
CameroonFebruary/March 2025
Fact-checking

The Politicization of Fact-Checking

Chioma Iruke·February 16, 2025
The role and perception of fact-checking in regions with fragile trust in media and government has sparked recent debates, as analysts question its effectiveness amid partisan exploitation by political actors. Read More...
AfricaFebruary/March 2025
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Will Africa See More Protests In 2025?

Pelumi Salako·February 16, 2025
The African continent was rife with different protests in 2024. With many of the triggers that caused the protests not attended to, 2025 may see these protests skyrocket. Read More...
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Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto

‘The Worst Thing to Tell a Poet Is That There Is No Money in Writing Poetry’ Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto’s First Draft

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto·February 16, 2025
Nigerian poet and author of ‘The Last Time I Saw My Father’, Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto, believes many African stories are underappreciated: ‘The literary landscape is vast, and countless voices and stories have yet to receive the attention they truly deserve. It is not always about a single book but rather the collective body of work from diverse regions, cultures, and languages.’ Read More...
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Books

10 Books That Shaped Black History Over the Last Century

Kai Mora·February 16, 2025
In our latest book recommendation, historian Kai Mora compiles a list of books that shaped Black history over the last century. From a book about the Haitian Revolution to one about the rise and fall of the Wolof Empire, these books exemplify the dynamism in the application of Black thought and history. Read More...
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Ogoni

S2 EP7: ‘We All Stand Before History’

Wale Lawal·February 16, 2025
How have the Ogoni people been able to come to terms with the execution of the Ogoni Nine, and deal with the unresolved environmental crisis caused by oil exploration till this day? What does the crisis in Ogoni and the Niger Delta more broadly tell us about what it means to be Nigerian? The seventh episode of the second season of The Republic is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. Read More...
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Congo

The Mad Scramble for Congo

Poncia Nyembo·February 9, 2025
At the heart of Congo’s prolonged crises is a scramble for its natural resources, similar to the precolonial scramble for Africa. All hands must be on deck this time to protect the over 100 million Congolese lives caught in this unfortunate unending war. Read More...
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Today in 1993, Nigerians voted in what is widely c Today in 1993, Nigerians voted in what is widely considered the freest and fairest election in the country’s history. #RPUBLCHistory⏳️⁠
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Chief Moshood Abiola was on track to be declared the winner before military head of state Ibrahim Babangida annulled the results. The event derailed a democratic transition, but also marked the beginning of the end for Nigeria’s socialist left.⁠
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In ‘The Shadow of June 12’, Baba Aye examines why the left, once central to Nigeria’s pro-democracy struggle, lost its footing in the aftermath June 12. The left had helped drive the resistance to military rule.⁠
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Organizations like the Campaign for Democracy, and other socialist groups organized protests, built coalitions, and set the ideological tone for a future democratic Nigeria. But when the time came to translate movement into political power, the left fractured.⁠
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The challenge wasn’t just state repression, but a lack of cohesive political strategy. After the annulment, some on the left backed Abiola. Others saw him as a symbol of capitalist elitism. Some were pulled by ethnic loyalties. The unity that once defined them splintered, and with it, their influence.By 1999’s return to civilian rule, many former leftists had joined the establishment.⁠
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June 12 haunts Nigeria not just because of what happened, Aye argues, but because of what didn’t.⁠
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Read more by clicking the image in the link in bio⁠
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📝: Baba Aye⁠
📷: Moshood Abiola at a press conference. 27 August 1993. Eddie Mulholland / IMS Vintage Photos.⁠
The Fading Pride of Ikoyi Cemetery #OnSite⚡⁠
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After many years of poor maintenance, Ikoyi Cemetery now lies in quiet decay. It has transitioned into a fading archive of legacy and societal pride. Cemeteries like Ikoyi and Ajele reflected who a society chose to remember, and how remembrance shaped the civic and cultural life of Lagos. ⁠
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In the race to modernize, Lagos risks losing the values embedded in how it once honoured its past. To walk through Ikoyi Cemetery today is to witness the slow fading of collective memory—and with it, the pride of a city that once took remembrance seriously.⁠
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Today’s essay is a visual presentation by Kelechi Anabaraonye that illustrates the declining state of this final resting place and the contributing factors, like the modernization of Lagos, plaguing the space.⁠
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Read the full essay by clicking this image in the link in bio or our IG story.⁠
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📝: Kelechi Anabaraonye (@jessekujagbor)⁠
📸: Cover Photo Illustration by Dami Mojid (@dami_mojid) / THE REPUBLIC. Photography by Kelechi Anabaraonye.⁠
🔍: Chinonye Otuonye, Yusuf Omotayo (@yusufomotayo), Wale Lawal (@wallelawal); Editors.
Today in 1932, South African playwright, Athol Fug Today in 1932, South African playwright, Athol Fugard, was born. #RPUBLHistory⏳️⁠
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On 11 June 1932, Harold Athol Fugard, South African actor, novelist and playwright of anti-apartheid works such as ‘Sizwe Bansi is Dead’, was born. He was born in Middleburg, South Africa to an Irish father and an Afrikaner mother.⁠
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Read more about South African politics by clicking the image in the link in bio. ⁠
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📝: Mira-belle Ajayi⁠
📷️: 1) Athol Fugard. IMDB⁠
2)Athol Fugard in discussion at the University of California, 1991. Flexible Fotography/Flickr. ⁠
3) Actors at a dress rehearsal for Blood Knot, Monomoy Theatre, Massachusetts, August 2014. Elliot Dodd/Sarah Sierszyn/Flickr. ⁠
The Timeless Solutions of the Gadaa System #OnSite The Timeless Solutions of the Gadaa System #OnSite⚡⁠
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As African states face a crisis of public trust in their democracies, academics and policymakers look to indigenous governance models as a substitute for the current system. One such substitute is the Oromo people’s Gadaa system. ⁠
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With its deep roots in communal involvement, consensus and responsibility, this long-standing system questions whether democracy is indeed a foreign institution on the African continent or whether justice and participatory democracy have long been part of the continent’s cultural and political fabric.⁠
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Author, Nicholas Kimble explores this ancient system of conflict resolution and how it measures up against Western democracy in Africa.⁠
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Read the full essay by clicking this image in the link in bio or our IG story.⁠
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📸: Illustration by Sheed Sorple Cecil / THE REPUBLIC.⁠
🔍: Yusuf Omotayo (@yusufomotayo), Wale Lawal (@wallelawal); Editors.
Limited Edition Print Alert!🚨 This vibrant il Limited Edition Print Alert!🚨 

This vibrant illustration by Shalom Ojo captures the electric energy of live theatre, referencing Wole Soyinka’s ‘Canticles of a Pyre Foretold’, staged at the Soyinka Theatre, University of Ibadan in 2024.

Featured in our V9 N1 print issue, ‘Demas Nwoko’s Natural Synthesis’ and paired with the essay, ‘Towards a True Nigerian Theatre’ by Ijapa O, this artwork is a confluence of Nigeria’s enduring creativity and visual storytelling.

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Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan and the Fragility of Gende Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan and the Fragility of Gendered Power in Africa #OnSite⚡⁠
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After accusing Nigeria’s senate president of sexual harassment, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended for six months. Her case reveals a brutal truth about African politics: representation doesn’t always mean protection. African women in politics who speak out are often punished more harshly than the men they accuse.⁠
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Nigeria, despite signing global treaties and passing anti-violence laws, still protects its powerful more than its victims. Even women with status like Akpoti-Uduaghan are reminded just how precarious their power is. ⁠
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As feminist voices grow louder across the continent, the question becomes impossible to ignore:⁠
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If even a senator isn't safe when she speaks out, what does safety look like for the rest of us?⁠
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Read their perspective on the war between gender and African politics by clicking this image in the link in bio or our IG story.⁠
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📝: Olajumoke Ayandele and Chioma Okafor⁠
📸: Photo Illustration by Dami Mojid (@dami_mojid) / THE REPUBLIC. Source Ref: NATASHA AKPOTI / IG.⁠
🔍: Ololade Faniyi (@lolamargaret_), Peace Yetunde Onafuye (@yetundeandbooks), Wale Lawal (@wallelawal); Editors.
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