History
The Nigerian Space Conundrum On 20 Years of Space Exploration in Nigeria
Nigerian space institutions strive to meet the objectives set out in a 28-year roadmap amid widespread scepticism and constrained funding. Read More...
Reading Nigeria’s Political History What to Read on Politics in Post-independence Nigeria
The texts in this reading list, while not exhaustive, expand on how Nigerian politics arrived at what it is today. Read More...
When Nigerians, Zimbabweans, and Rhodesians Talked About Race Revisiting Nigeria – Zimbabwe Relations
While Nigerian support for Zimbabwean and broader southern African liberation was extensive, it was considerably more nuanced and more fractured than often remembered. Read More...
Anti-Fascism The Legacy of 1930s Pan-African Leaders
With the rise in white supremacist and nationalist movements around the world, often overlooked is the important history of Africa's role in anti-Fascism. Read More...
Africa’s Lost Decade Women and the Structural Adjustment Programme
t has been more than 30 years since the Structural Adjustment era swept across the African continent, but... Read More...
The “Great Man” of Peace Kofi Annan (1938-2018)
Kofi Annan led the most important organization in global cooperative history at arguably one of the most intransigent periods of contemporary history. Read More...
The New Normal A Brief History of Climate Change
hile on the 1798 Napoleon expedition to Egypt, a French mathematician and physicist, Joseph Fourier, became fascinated with... Read More...
The God of Colonization And Africa’s Post-Colonial Redemption
In discussing the politics of life across Africa, we cannot ignore religion. As Africans, our unique history of belief has made religion such an integrated part of our lives. Read More...
Reading Biafra What to Read on the Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Biafran War), from 1967 to 1970, was a complex conflict... 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...
