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Efua Traore's First Draft

‘Writing a Book for Children is Not as Easy as One Might Think’ Efua Traoré’s First Draft

Efua Traoré·September 23, 2022
Novelist, Efua Traoré, has found that children can be the most challenging audience. Read our interview. Read More...
August/September 2022Best of 2022: First DraftFirst DraftInternational Women's Day - First DraftInterviewsNigeria
Green economy for Nigeria

Changing the Financial Climate Catalysing the Green Economy for a Prosperous Nigeria

Oluwaseun Oguntuase·September 20, 2022
A pragmatic approach to the green economy is required to develop effective strategies for solving the most important problems facing Nigeria today. Read More...
August/September 2022Nigeria
over the brink of crisis

Over the Brink of Crisis How Nigeria Is Tackling a Cholera Epidemic

Busayo Akinmoju·September 19, 2022
Nigeria is experiencing its worst cholera outbreak in recent times. What are we doing about it? Read the full essay. Read More...
August/September 2022Best of 2022Nigeria
Remy Ngamije's First Draft

‘Good Writing Will Not Save a Weak Story’ Rémy Ngamije’s First Draft

Rémy Ngamije·September 16, 2022
Editor and author of The Eternal Audience of One, Rémy Ngamije, believes good writing cannot salvage a bad story. Read our interview. Read our interview. Read More...
August/September 2022First DraftInterviewsNamibia
The Rise of African Fact Checkers

Setting the Records Straight The Rise of Africa’s Fact Checkers

Charles Ebikeme·September 15, 2022
From just one initiative in 2014, there were 20 active fact checking initiatives across Africa by 2018. Today, there are 35. What is driving the rise of African fact checkers and what are the implications of this trend? Read more Read More...
August/September 2022Best of 2022Nigeriavol6-no3

Finding My Voice Creative Writing and The Burden of Language

Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi·September 14, 2022
‘My fear of writing in pidgin English stemmed majorly from an anxiety that foreign readers might not understand my work,’ the author writes. Read more. Read More...
August/September 2022Nigeria

‘Governance Should Be as Close to the People as Possible’ Adekunle Adewumi’s First Draft

Adekunle Adewumi·September 9, 2022
Political analyst, Adekunle Adewumi, is worried about the impact of corruption on Nigerians. Read our interview. Read our interview. Read More...
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The End of Empire? Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II Has Died

Wale Lawal·September 8, 2022
Twenty-five when she became queen, Queen Elizabeth II’s reign saw a declining, brutal British Empire and declarations of independence that have continued till date in former British colonies across Africa and the African diaspora. Read more. Read More...
August/September 2022NewsUnited Kingdom
Looking for Freetown

Setting Sail for ‘Home’ Inheriting My Parents’ Longings for Freetown

Ade Daramy·September 7, 2022
Half a century ago, I inherited my parents’ longings for Freetown, Sierra Leone. Unknown to me then, a two-week voyage home would became a lifelong journey. Read more. Read More...
Best of 2022GambiaJune/July 2022Sierra LeoneThe Black Atlanticvol6-no3

We Cannot Say Big Brother Naija is Unimportant How the Reality TV Show is Shaping the Politics of Young Nigerians

Ernest Nweke·September 6, 2022
Whatever viewers make of Big Brother Naija or ‘BBN’, one thing we can all agree on is the reality TV show’s unusual popularity. Read more Read More...
August/September 2022Nigeria

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Today in 1922, Joseph Ki-Zerbo was born. #RPUBLCHi Today in 1922, Joseph Ki-Zerbo was born. #RPUBLCHistory⏳️⁠
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On 21 June 1922, Joseph Ki-Zerbo was born in Toma, Upper-Volta (now Burkina Faso). As a historian, politician and writer, Ki-Zerbo is recognized as one of Africa's foremost thinkers.⁠
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Read more about Burkinabé politics by clicking the image in the link in bio⁠
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📷: 1)Joseph Ki-Zerbo / Wikimedia Commons.⁠
2)Joseph Ki-Zerbo / Wiki.⁠
3)Thomas Sankara at the UN headquarters, New York, 1984. Milton Grant/UN Photo.
Nok and Africa’s Disregard for Prehistory #OnSi Nok and Africa’s Disregard for Prehistory  #OnSite⚡⁠
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⁠Who stole our past, and why did we let them?⁠
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Nok art, 2,500 years old, locked in glass boxes in Paris. A German university training archaeologists on Nigeria’s Nok Valley, with none of them African. An ancient Ethiopian feminist philosophy rediscovered in Norway, while Addis Ababa looked the other way.⁠
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In today’s essay, Odafin Odafe Okoh confronts the question at the heart of Africa’s heritage crisis: Why do African leaders continue to treat precolonial history as dispensable? And what happens to a society that allows the world to define its past?⁠
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It’s a timely, cultural report about imperial theft but more hauntingly, it is about African amnesia, state-sanctioned silence and the quiet burial of our most powerful intellectual legacies.⁠
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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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📝: Odafin Odafe Okoh⁠
📸: Photo illustration by Ezinne Osueke (@ezinne.o.osueke) / THE REPUBLIC. Source Ref: WIKIMEDIA. Nok Art / African Art Gallery.⁠
🔍: Ada Nnadi (@horneddaughter), Yusuf Omotayo (@yusufomotayo), Wale Lawal (@wallelawal); Editors.
Today in 1920, Amos Tutuola was born. #RPUBLCHisto Today in 1920, Amos Tutuola was born. #RPUBLCHistory⏳️⁠
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On 20 June 1920, Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria. He was a Nigerian novelist whose works featured rich Yoruba folklore written in nonstandard English. Many of his books featured stories he had heard as a child.⁠
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Swipe to learn more and read more about Amos Tutuola by clicking the image at the link in our bio.⁠
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📷: 1) Amos Tutuola. Francoise Huguier/Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center/The University of Texas at Austin. ⁠
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Press Freedom is at Risk in the Democratic Republi Press Freedom is at Risk in the Democratic Republic of Congo. #RPUBLCNews📡⁠
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has banned the country’s media from reporting on the activities of former president, Joseph Kabila, and his party, the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD), claiming that they pose a threat to ‘national cohesion’. This comes after Kabila visited the eastern city of Goma, which is controlled by the M23 rebels currently fighting the DRC army. ⁠
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The ban raises concerns about press freedom in the DRC, coming only two years after the country passed a new press law potentially restricting press freedom and providing several opportunities for journalism to be criminalized. In 2024, the Journalist in Danger, a DRC-based organization, reported that there had been ‘at least 523 cases of various attacks against the press’ in the last five years.⁠
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🔍: Ezinne Osueke (@ezinne.o.osueke), Yusuf Omotayo (@yusufomotayo), Adetola Wahab; Editors.
What Is the Place of Nollywood in the World? #OnS What Is the Place of Nollywood in the World?  #OnSite⚡⁠
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Despite being the world’s second-largest film industry by volume, Nollywood remains startlingly absent from the global spaces where culture is consumed. On a train from Paris to Lille for Series Mania—the largest TV festival in Europe—Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi browses the in-train film catalogue: French, Italian, Indian, American. Nollywood? Not there. Even on the flight over, Nigerian films were buried under ‘World’ then ‘African.’⁠
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Nollywood has topped Netflix global charts (Aníkúlápó, Shanty Town), attracted streaming giants like Amazon and Netflix, and sent delegations to Europe’s most prestigious festivals. Yet, the industry remains on the margins: overlooked by the Oscars, sidelined by global distributors and perpetually asked to prove its worth.⁠
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Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi’s essay draws from the Series Mania Forum (where ten Nollywood filmmakers joined Africa’s cultural elite) to ask urgent questions: Why does Hollywood exist in Nigeria but not vice versa? Is the industry being undermined by its obsession with volume over quality? What happens if streamers pull out completely? And why hasn’t Nollywood, despite decades of output, been invited to sit at the table of global cinematic power?⁠
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With commentary from Kunle Afolayan, Mimidoo Bartel and Blessing Uzzi, this essay is a sharp reflection on race, gatekeeping, cultural capital and the complex politics of distribution.⁠
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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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📸: Photo illustration by Ezinne Osueke (@ezinne.o.osueke) / THE REPUBLIC. Source Ref: UNSPLASH. Nollywood sign / RIPPLES NIGERIA. ⁠
🔍: Ijapa O (@ijapa_o), Peace Yetunde Onafuye (@yetundeandbooks), Wale Lawal (@wallelawal); Editors.
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