• Olaojo Aiyegbayo

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.

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Here's Hipsters Don’t Dance's monthly installment of "Top World Carnival Tunes" for July 2015.

• Olaojo Aiyegbayo

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.

• Shobana Shankar

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.

• Akwaeke Emezi

The author writes about a fleeting encounter with the former captain of Nigeria's national football team, Sunday Oliseh.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Azu Yeché

A painful, violent story of migration captured in the song "Lagos" - for our series "Liner Notes," in which musicians talk about making music.

• Renuka Mendis

• Shobana Shankar

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.

• Liz Timbs

• Africa Is a Country

• Akin Adeṣọkan

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.

• Ebenezer Obadare

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.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Twitter has declared General Muhammadu Buhari as President-Elect of Nigeria, Africa's biggest democracy.

• Megan Eardley

Why do Western media outlets still fantasize that Apartheid's foot soldiers will be the ones to stop Boko Haram?

• Boima Tucker

• Frank Gerits

• Ainehi Edoro

The fantastical texture of the everyday in E. C. Osondu’s novel, "This House is Not for Sale."

• Katarina Hedrén

The legendary Nigerian filmmaker, Tunde Kelani is considered the bridge between the first generation of Nigerian filmmakers and Nollywood.

• Eniola Alawoya

Are quirky white people with thriving, trendy careers in New York City, the only ones to find love?