Culture & Society
The Spiritual Dimensions of Exile South Sudanese Refugees in Arua Town, Uganda
uch mainstream war reporting on African conflict has tended to invoke barbaric portrayals of those perpetrating violence on... Read More...
Biafra and the Politics of Blame The Neo-Biafran Consciousness and Its Challenges
Today’s pro-Biafran agitators can claim a series of economic, political and, more recently, military onslaughts on its members,... Read More...
A Laughing Giant The Everlasting Humour of Chinua Achebe
In 1998, Chinua Achebe, already by this time the father of modern African literature by several accounts, introduced himself with a joke. Read More...
Agitating the State Biafran Money, Memes and Mobility
n 2008, after his father died, Mr. Sylvester opened his father’s locked cupboard. It was full of Biafran... Read More...
Biafra’s Crisis of Faith The Spiritual Legacies of the Biafran War
From pre-independence ethnic dog whistling, to pogroms, a civil war and the systemic socio-political ostracization that has since followed, the Igbo are the most discriminated ethnic group in Nigeria and ethnic bigotry against Igbo people has been on full display in the 2023 election. Read More...
Destination 中国 Unravelling Nigerian Migrations to China
ince the 1990s, migration in the West has been going through a process of politicization, in part due... Read More...
Eritrean Identity and Migration Discourse as Shaped by Indefinite National Service and Education Reforms
o escape the authoritarian government under President Isaias Afwerki, evade forced conscription, and/or find economic opportunities, an... Read More...
Capitalism Central A History of Lagos and Migration
ew issues have raised more global concern in recent time than the issue of migration—the movement of people and... Read More...
An Upright Man? The Unexpected Fall of Buhari's Reputation
espite the current economic conditions, it remains that Nigeria was one of the poster nations of the ‘Africa... Read More...
Beating the Corruption Enterprise A Policy Approach to Criminal Justice in Nigeria
erpetrators of criminal acts routinely defeat the machinery of justice, enabled by their understanding of the limited capacity... Read More...
