When the ‘President of the rich’ met the ‘Black President’
What does Emmanuel Macron's visit to Fela Kuti's New Afrika Shrine say about what happened to Fela Kuti's legacy in Nigeria.
Nigeria
How the left can rescue Nigeria
The last 20 years of liberal democracy in Nigeria have been marred by crises. The next election should be the Left's target.
Nollywood Tackles #MeToo
Director Dare Olaitan’s Knock Out Blessing (2018), is nothing less than a meditation on rape culture.
Why I’ll keep talking to South Africans about race
While Nigeria's class divide is not between rich whites and poor blacks, it still has a lot in common with postapartheid South Africa.
The Nigerian electricity story
The erratic electricity supply in Nigeria is a metaphor for life there.
Why I’m no longer talking to Nigerians about race.
On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.
Sex, lies and Lagos
Everyday Lagos and Lagosians fill the pages of Leye Adenle's thrillers, but fail to fill some holes in the plots.
A radical electoral alternative in Nigeria stutters
Omoyele Sowore was the presidential hope of Nigeria's more active left. He fared abysmally. What next for progressive electoral politics in Nigeria?
Bisi Silva: Time Remembered
Bisi Silva's constant movement was a form of unlearning; in her awareness of artists and cultural production on the African continent.
Entry-level misogyny
In a heteronormative society like Nigeria, men are entitled to sex with any and all women.
The burden of being Nigerian
On xenophobia against Nigerians in Ghana.
Speculative view
Two new Nigerian films explore the world of traditional worship in Nigeria
The slave holders on the border
Why do people on the border between Nigeria and northern Cameroon refer to Boko Haram as slave holders?
The struggle for a minimum wage in Nigeria
Negotiations for a minimum wage put Nigeria's trade unions at the front of poor people's struggles.
The lady is not for turning
Nigeria's former finance minister wrote a book about her time in government. It is a thinly veiled attempt to clean up her image.
Gods of Fiction
A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.
The rebirth of the Nigerian left?
What has the world's Moët drinking capital and a world leader in global indices of private jet ownership to do with left politics?
Husbands to rent
Try being a single woman in Nigeria.
Pentecostal republic
Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.
Public funds for private gain
The planned global Education Outcomes Fund—the UN seems onboard—would create markets for “non-state” providers while guaranteeing profits for private investors that purchase “impact bonds.”