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Azubuike Obi26 May 2026

While acknowledging the benefits of Artificial Intelligence, Azubuike Obi calls for responsible use and initiates deeper conversations about its long-term social and educational consequences. 

Prosper Ishaya26 May 2026

Drawing on Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s ideas on linguistic decolonization, Prosper Ishaya warns that the rise of Artificial Intelligence risks deepening linguistic inequality and urges African nations to embed indigenous languages into AI systems to resist digital colonialism. 

Wale Lawal24 August 2025
Our latest issue, An African Manual for Debugging Empire , confronts the erasure of Africans in global tech debates and highlights the ways the continent is actively shaping, contesting and redefining the futures of AI.
Otobong Inieke24 August 2025
As the world leans into the fourth industrial revolution, Africa has become a frontier for the geopolitical power play of China and the United States. Amid this, African governments must take control of their digital development or end up as pawns, again.

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The Bombing That Changed Abuja Forever
LOTANNA OGBUEFIMARCH 22, 2026

The Bombing That Changed Abuja Forever

In 2011, a Boko Haram bombing at the United Nations House in Abuja claimed the lives of 26 people. The incident changed Nigeria’s capital city and the lives of its residents forever.

The Last Days of Abuja’s City of Metal
TERNA IWAR AND S. A. ANSELMMARCH 22, 2026

The Last Days of Abuja’s City of Metal

For decades, Apo Mechanic Village has kept Abuja’s cars running. Now, as demolition looms again, the mechanics and traders who built the Abuja’s informal engine confront another uncertain future.

‘Port Harcourt No Be Abuja’
YUSUF OMOTAYOMARCH 4, 2024

‘Port Harcourt No Be Abuja’

Nyesom Wike’s appointment as minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu could be Wike’s biggest political task yet. As minister, he will have to govern a people who are majorly religiously and ethnically different from him while trying to retain power over his previous domain, Rivers State.

How Nigerian Universities Became Centres of Islamic Radicalism
WARDAH ABBASMARCH 22, 2026

How Nigerian Universities Became Centres of Islamic Radicalism

The religious extremism that fuels insecurity in Nigeria today did not begin only in terrorist camps; it also developed, quietly, within Nigerian universities.

The True Source of Ladi Kwali's Genius
CHIMEZIE CHIKAMARCH 22, 2026

The True Source of Ladi Kwali's Genius

For decades, the potter on Nigeria’s twenty-naira note was considered the product of British colonial art instruction, but this viewpoint denied a crucial truth: that Ladi Kwali’s art came from a Gbagyi worldview in which clay, labour and the female body were sacred, inseparable and hers alone.

Kidnapped From the House of God
PELUMI SALAKOMARCH 22, 2026

Kidnapped From the House of God

What began as a Tuesday evening service at Christ Apostolic Church in Eruku, Kwara State, turned into a live-streamed kidnapping that dragged 38 worshippers into the forest and left three people dead. Nearly 40 days after the bandit attack, Pelumi Salako visits Eruku to speak with survivors.

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