When a recent spate of pro-democracy protests spread across Eswatini, the untruth of the country’s peace and stability gained a global audience. Read more.
Obasanjo’s legacy as a civil soldier is difficult to summarize. Though he made several advances as Nigeria’s longest-serving civilian leader, he missed several opportunities to build institutions that would have helped entrench true civility and democracy within Nigeria. Read more.
Through ‘Sozaboy’, Ken Saro-Wiwa explores how war on the African continent has come to function as a central aspect of political economy in the neoliberal world. Read more.
Banditry primarily impacts rural communities—the very communities responsible for food security—and has disrupted socio-economic life in the North West. Read more.
The Twitter ban only extends the long line of reasons to be pessimistic about the state of Nigeria. Despite the bleak outlook, we can draw five lessons from the Twitter ban for future political organizing. Read more.
Acknowledging that most countries with the highest trafficking rates are former colonies opens up new ways of understanding and potentially eradicating human trafficking. Read more.
Despite child marriage being recognized and prohibited by both international and domestic laws within Nigeria. Child marriage is still prevalent, especially in the North and argued as an Islamic religious practice. Read more.
Examining the links between descent-based slavery and contemporary slavery in West Africa helps us to find the missing link to understanding the conditions under which slavery and slavery-like practices keep persisting despite abolitions and international anti-slavery legislation. Read more.
Years after civil wars have ended in northern Uganda and Sierra Leone, women abducted by rebel groups continue to experience exclusion. Their experiences reveal that reintegration is not linear but lifelong and potentially intergenerational. Read more.
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