History
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...
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...
Remembering Biafra Violence and Nigeria's Long Road to Redemption
The Biafran War, which took place between 1967 and 1970, represents a very dark time in Nigerian history. It was a tragedy that exceeded conceivable imagination. Read More...
