• 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.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Emmanuel Iduma

• Jeremy Weate

Nigeria's homophobia is at variance with Google analytics, which shows that Nigeria ranks in the top five in the world for searches for gay porn.

• Cheta Nwanze

The Royal Niger Company and the founding of what became Nigeria.

• Sarah Ladipo Manyika

The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.

• Africa Is a Country

Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent in Nigeria, gets the hashtag treatment - gets mocked on Twitter - for his government's inaction and policy uncertainty on a range of fronts.

• Cheta Nwanze

Asides from a few isolated cases, Nigeria's police force was never really an investigating force.

• Cheta Nwanze

This is currently Boko Haram's structure: a cellular structure, and no centralized command, and seemingly no unity of purpose.

• Cheta Nwanze

A public service as a response to Nigeria's removal of history from its school curriculum

• Cheta Nwanze

Today's post is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they helped Nigeria or not.

• Katarina Hedrén

• Liduduma'lingani Mqombothi

Who has the right to speak about the late Nigerian Afrobeat king, Fela Kuti, and how is that right earned? Also, what do you exclude? What do you include?