The age of the Obidients
Peter Obi, one of the three main candidates for Nigerian president, is neither a savior nor a socialist, but his candidacy and his supporters have enlivened Nigerian elections.
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Sa’eed Husaini
Sa'eed Husaini is research fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development in Abuja, Nigeria, and a contributing editor for Africa Is a Country.
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.
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?
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?