Two weeks ago, on October 6th, Nigeria’s former oil minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, was arrested in London by British police. It’s estimated that over $20 billion went missing on her watch. But how much longer will Nigeria rely on the British police to deal with powerful mega-looters like Diezani Allison-Madueke? Beyond the celebrations that lit up […]
From July 1967 to January 1970, Nigeria was engaged in civil war. Apparently, one person could make the war pause: The G.O.A.T., Pelé.
Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance's monthly installment of "Top World Carnival Tunes" for July 2015.
In 1976, the American tennis star, Arthur Ashe, went to play in a tennis tournament in Lagos and promptly found himself in the middle of a coup by Nigeria's military.
In the work of the novelist, Okey Ndibe, the influences of the United States, especially that everything is available for a price, is everywhere in Nigeria.
The author writes about a fleeting encounter with the former captain of Nigeria's national football team, Sunday Oliseh.
In the state of Kano, in Nigeria, last year, a 14-year-old girl, Wasila Tasi’u, was charged with the murder of 35-year-old Umaru Sani. Wasila had been forced into marriage, and a week later, Umaru Sani died of rat poison ingestion. Despite calls from national and international women’s groups, the girl was tried in adult rather […]
A painful, violent story of migration captured in the song "Lagos" - for our series "Liner Notes," in which musicians talk about making music.
In some ways all women are the same. We bleed every moon until you hit a certain age and then we all get hot flashes. We like sex even though we are told we should not like sex. We have sex. We have babies. White women, brown women, yellow women, black. We are all the same. But, that’s […]
It’s not really about Nigeria, and it’s not for Nigerians. Rather it’s a story, popular in America, about brave soldiers fighting terrorists.
Nigeria has gotten a lot of attention on this platform in the past few weeks, with the publication of a new e-book the week prior to the election of Muhammadu Buhari over Goodluck Jonathan. I have been wanting to cover the Nigerian Nostalgia Project since Sean brought it to my attention a couple of months ago, […]
“Soldiers in Maiduguri, the embattled capital of Borno state, which has been under constant siege by Boko Haram, celebrate Nigeria’s election to music by Nigerian recording artist Davido” (via CCTV Africa): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIKH0IlBGdc CCTV Africa sites top African footballers like Emmanuel Adebayor (is he still around?) and Samuel Eto’o for popularizing Skelewu beyond its Nigerian base. […]
The historic change that happened with the election of General Muhammadu Buhari has hopefully set the country on a way to rethink its brand of federalism.
Goodluck Jonathan becomes the first incumbent president in the Nigeria's history, since the advent of democratic rule in 1999, to lose to the opposition.
Twitter has declared General Muhammadu Buhari as President-Elect of Nigeria, Africa's biggest democracy.
Why do Western media outlets still fantasize that Apartheid's foot soldiers will be the ones to stop Boko Haram?
Nigeria and Brazil have a long and intimate historical connection. Nigerian culture has provided a central reference point in the formation of many Afro-Brazilian cultural groups and religious beliefs. And Brazil has also made its mark in Nigeria throughout history. So it may come as little surprise that there continue to be strong cultural affinities between the two nations. […]
Richard Nixon visited Mao’s Zedong’s China 43 years ago, from 21 to 28 February 1972. His stay was part of Henry Kissinger’s triangular diplomacy in which the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Soviet Union were drawn into a competitive cooperative dynamic with the United States. Because of that newly established link with the PRC, […]
The fantastical texture of the everyday in E. C. Osondu’s novel, "This House is Not for Sale."
The legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani is considered the bridge between the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers and Nollywood.