History
The Republic: Season 1, Episode 3 Transcript Two Sides of the Same Coin
In this episode, we take a look at the key election candidates and what platforms they ran under. We compare their profiles and proposed agendas for Nigeria, highlighting what political stakeholders at the time felt about each candidate and party. Read More...
7 Books That Will Transport You to Nigeria Under IBB
The books in this week’s list explore the state of Nigeria under IBB. Our book recommendations served as resources for the first episode of our podcast and are highly recommended for anyone looking to understand Nigeria during the period in context. Read More...
Revolutionaries or Opportunists? Chukwuma Nzeogwu and the Contradictions of African Coups
As African nations continue to experience a resurgence of coups and the kind of political instability that characterized the 1960s-80s, it is important to draw lessons from the past. For the part he played in instigating one of Nigeria’s bloodiest coups, Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu is mostly remembered in infamy. But was he a misunderstood revolutionary or a bloodthirsty opportunist? Read More...
The Republic: Season 1, Episode 2 Transcript MKO: The Man Nigeria Waited to See
This episode will establish M. K. O. Abiola as a major actor. It will examine his personal life; his initial foray into business and politics; and areas of his life that shaped who he was as a politician.
The second episode of The Republic is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. Read More...
The Republic: Season 1, Episode 1 Transcript IBB, the Evil Genius
We all grew up hearing about ‘June 12’, but how well do you know what really happened? Let’s find out together.
The first episode of The Republic is now available wherever you listen to podcasts. Read More...
The Making of Modern Nigeria British Imperialism and the Political Evolution of Nigeria
Colonization not only altered geographical boundaries to invent Nigeria; it also engineered social and political institutions that have continued to shape Nigeria to this day. Read More...
From the OAU to the AU Has the African Union Learned to Handle Conflicts Better?
In 60 years as the principal African organization, both as the OAU and the AU, the African Union has been tasked with managing a wide range of conflicts on the continent. The AU has made great strides in diverging from the position of the OAU on peacekeeping intervention. But efforts are all it will remain if the AU does not deal with the holdbacks that hindered the OAU. Read More...
Ethiopian Dream Marcus Garvey, Ethiopia and the Founding of the OAU
Leading up to the founding of the Organization of African Unity in 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia emerged as an unlikely progenitor of the unprecedented moment. Ethiopia’s rise to the forefront of pan-Africanism was sustained by the influence of Black consciousness in the African diaspora, culminating with the far-reaching activism of Jamaica’s Marcus Garvey. Read More...
Concerning Violence How Frantz Fanon Might Interpret Today’s France
Over the last few weeks, France has seen unrest at the death of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old boy of Moroccan and Algerian origin shot and killed by police officers in a Paris suburb. The events dawn on the 98th birthday of Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychiatrist who, educated in Paris, spent a critical part of his life in Algeria supporting its nationalist liberation movement against France, seeing the revolution as a ‘bridgehead’ of a pan-African vision. Read More...
The Artist of Beauty and Mystery Ben Enwonwu’s Indelible Mark on African Art
Ben Enwonwu’s impact on post-colonial African Art was nothing short of revolutionary. His life and work were a bridge between traditional conceptions of African art, and contemporary interpretations of what it means to be an African artist within a global community. Read More...
