• Carl LeVan

Nigerians have fought for democracy before, and we shouldn’t underestimate civil society’s willingness to defend it.

• Katarina Hedrén

For Aduaka, cinema is important if it illuminates or resonates something that makes up the essence of this thing called human nature.

• Kathleen Bomani

The multimedia artist Tunde Owolabi brings Aso-Oke weaving to gallery spaces.

• Billie Adwoa McTernan

Nigerian band VILLY & The Xtreme Volumes wants to open the world's eyes to the political and social realities of the continent through a catchy and danceable repertoire.

• Camilla Houeland

What has been the personal legacy and costs to the Abiola women in Nigeria's struggle for democracy.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Considering the proximity of celebrity culture to how capitalism operates in Africa, why is it not given more serious attention?

• Elnathan John

Nigerians love expatriates more than they love themselves. Nigeria is expatriate heaven, claims novelist and lawyer, Elnathan John.

• Joe Penney

• Hipsters Don't Dance

Hipster's Don't Dance's 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for September 2014.

• Nosarieme Garrick

• Africa Is a Country

• Cheta Nwanze

There are no records of when the first official football match was played in Nigeria, but it started in the 1920s.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

The novelist and Nobel Prize winner on why he avoids social media entirely, saying he doesn’t tweet, blog, or engage with what he calls today’s increasingly promiscuous digital platforms.

Long before Boko Haram, talk of holy war in what became Nigeria was everywhere.

• Cheta Nwanze

American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.

• Serge-Armand Kouami Noukoue

For many white French, and including African immigrants in France, watching movies like 'Phone Swap,' 'Tango with Me,' 'Last Flight to Abuja' and 'Maami,' is an eye-opener.

• Cheta Nwanze

For those who want Nigeria to balkanize, try being a small, ineffectual African country.

• Cheta Nwanze

Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.

• Karen Attiah

Western media tends to render female children invisible not just by a lack of coverage but also in the language we talk about them.