History
Who Was Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo?
Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo was a pioneering Nigerian feminist, activist, and civil servant who in 1968 became the permanent secretary of Home Affairs and Information in Nigeria’s Western Region. Read more. Read More...
Elizabeth Olowu: Nigeria’s First Female Bronze Caster
Princess Elizabeth Olowu is a sculptor who is recognized as the first female bronze caster in Nigeria. Read more. Read More...
Former Oyo State Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, Has Died
Nigerian politician, Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, who served as the governor of Oyo State from May 2007 to May 2011 has died. Read more. Read More...
Wiredu’s Consensus Introducing Kwasi Wiredu’s Consensual Democracy
In a consensual democracy, ‘politics’ is everybody’s participatory responsibility, and Wiredu’s ideas force us to imagine the kind of societies in which diligent senses of careful responsibility could be realized. Read more. Read More...
Former Nigerian Leader, Ernest Shonekan, Has Died
Ernest Shonekan, interim head of state of Nigeria from 26 August to 17 November 1993, died this morning at a hospital in Lagos. Read more. Read More...
Women Who Lead Feminist Protests and Politics in Nigeria
For protests such as #EndSARS where women play prominent leadership roles, gender stereotypes that assign leadership roles to men encourage dampen these protests at a much faster rate than protests led by men. Read more. Read More...
Where Is Pan-Africanism Today? The Gains, Challenges and Prospects of Nkrumah’s United Africa
Kwame Nkrumah envisioned pan-Africanism as a means of uniting and uplifting Africans across Africa and the diaspora but was ousted in 1966 before achieving his aim. Read more. Read More...
Students in the Struggle for Kenyan Democracy A Brief History of University Student Activism in Kenya
Student activism in Kenya is a form of protest and resistance against oppression. At its very heart, it is also a demonstration of leadership and the capacity for mass mobilization. Read more. Read More...
Who Was Sir Seretse Khama? Botswana’s Pacifist Revolutionary
Seretse Khama made an usual mark in the arena of politics in southern Africa, but his role in Botswana’s road to independence is unheralded history. Read more. Read More...
Head Above Water The Negotiations of Buchi Emecheta
Having been brought up in a culture of storytelling, Buchi Emecheta would have been aware, from a young age, of ways in which her local tradition marginalized women and reinforced male supremacy. Read more. Read More...
