History
An Irony of History The Complicated Legacy of Chief Obafemi Awolowo
Peer, predecessor or successor, Awolowo’s unequivocal articulation of a clear and consistent political ideology places him above anyone else in Nigeria’s political history. Read more. Read More...
Africa Will Always Have History Art and Literature in My Sleepless Pursuit of African Pasts
Africa has always had literature. The continent has always had art and history, too. But which future can exist without proper recognition of the past? Read more. Read More...
A Pair of Broad Bottoms Saartjie Baartman and the Perpetual Public Spectacle of Blackness
Not even in fiction is Saartjie Baartman spared the reduction to her physical features that attends her life in Europe. Read more. Read More...
Who is Irene Cohen? The Re-Discovery of Feminist Freedom in Modern-Day Angola
Every year, Irene Cohen and Deolinda Rodrigues, two Angolan nationalists, are eulogized on Angolan Women’s Day on March 2; their short and tragic lives are made emblematic of African feminism and national pride. Read more. Read More...
Nigeria’s Arrested Development A History of Accidental Presidents
While many are of the opinion that Nigeria started out on the right path politically and somehow derailed, there is a divergent school of thought suggesting that Nigeria always lacked progressive leadership from the get-go. Read More...
Big Dreams and Grand Ambitions Nigeria’s Vision 2020—How far?
The target year, 2020, is here and it is worth asking how much of Vision 2020 has been actualized. How have Nigeria’s development indicators compared with those of advanced countries, the first 20 of which Nigeria had aspired to join by 2020? Read More...
Nation Forgotten Nigeria’s Neglected Pensioners
After decades of service, retired public servants in Nigeria are spending their retirement years in depravation. Read More...
Deceptions of Innovations Investigating the Claims of Big Tech
The grand premise of innovation is that everyone benefits from it: technology not only yields great opportunity; it constructs great equality. The image of innovation is a redemptive one—but for whom? Read More...
Moving Beyond Semantics Examining the ‘Biafran Genocide’ Claim
Having accomplished a plethora of historical firsts, observations from the Nigeria-Biafra conflict can act as important references to better understand the evolving dynamics of warfare. Read More...
The Art of Conversation Proverbs in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
In Things Fall Apart, Achebe adopts and adapts the English Language as a means of access to Igbo indigenous culture, aesthetics and cosmology. Read More...
