Politics & Security
What #FreeJacobZuma Exposed Jacob Zuma and the Undoing of South Africa
Unlike his predecessors, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma had a presidency coloured by a messy personal life and corruption charges. Read more. Read More...
Who Was Ojukwu? The Many Perceptions of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Before he died in 2011, leader of the Biafran secessionist movement, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, had assumed four personalities: he was a hero, a villain, a rebel, and even a ‘one-Nigerianist’. Read more. Read More...
Nnamdi Azikiwe’s Zikism The President and the Revolutionary Ideology He Denied
A troubled relationship with Zikism, the leftist political ideology Nnamdi Azikiwe inspired and drew his political base from, may explain his sudden yet prolonged fall from prominence. Read more. Read More...
Burnin’ & Lootin’ Respectability, Negative Peace and the Eswatini Protests
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. Read More...
The Civil Soldier The Political Legacy of Olusegun Obasanjo
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. Read More...
Japá Young Nigerians’ Search for Prosperity and Its Effect on Political Participation in Nigeria
For many young Nigerians, relocating abroad with little or no intent to return has become a life goal. Read more. Read More...
Ken Saro-Wiwa’s ‘Sozaboy’ What War Literature Teaches Us About the Political Economy of Violence
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. Read More...
New Lords of Nigeria’s North West Bandits: Terrorists or Criminal Gangs?
Banditry primarily impacts rural communities—the very communities responsible for food security—and has disrupted socio-economic life in the North West. Read more. Read More...
We Have Work to Do Five Lessons for Pro-democracy Activists from the Twitter Ban
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. Read More...
Decolonizing Human Trafficking Alternative Approaches to Understanding Modern Slavery
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. Read More...
