Culture & Society
Siblinghood and the Psychology of Trauma Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer uses the expansiveness of the prose form to ask, ‘how far can we go for people we love?’ Read More...
Long Live the Children of Disobedience Patriarchy and the Limits of Feminism’s Transformative Power
Feminism’s transformative power is one Nigeria greatly needs; and as Nigeria's feminist movement grows, its adherents show no interests in being respectable. Read More...
Zombiescapes Africa's Megacity Addiction
Across Africa, governments are looking to megacities to solve urban problems. But African cities need to focus less on skyscrapers and more on city halls. Read More...
Creating Africa Africa in the Global Contest of Looking and Representation
In the global contest of looking, Africa has not been granted equal status. We stand apart as the Other, stared at, looked down upon, and most times, lacking the vantage point to return the gaze. Read More...
Are Nigerians ‘Black’ Enough to Talk about Race? Re-imagining the Discourse on Race
If, race is what forms part of the very explanation for why the relationship between Africans and African Americans and between South Africans and Nigerians ‘is so messed up’, then of what use can race be to remedy the situation? Read More...
Colouring inside the Politically Personal Nanjala Nyabola's Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics
In her latest book, Nanjala Nyabola paints the complexities of Kenyan politics as underlies the relationship between Kenyans and digital technology. Read More...
A Poultry Farmer’s Song of Burden in the Face of Fate Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities
In his latest book, Chigozie Obioma draws readers and critics to the understanding of a man through the metaphysics of existence. Read More...
Art as Protest What the Black Arts Movement Can Teach Today’s Artists
The legacy of the Black Arts movement teaches that art need not singularly perform the function of the aesthetic or of utility. Read More...
Sexuality in the Twenty-first Century Looking through Nigerian Lenses
In Nigeria, sexuality rarely emerges in the realm of public debate or analysis, leaving the topic stuck in the periphery of historical discussions. Read More...
Curators of Forcible Evictions The Problem with Lagos State
The rise of Lagos as a major economic and political force has been a swift one. But housing and infrastructure deficits in Lagos have only grown as the city continues to expand with an uneasy urgency. Read More...
