• Promise Frank Ejiofor

How does it feel to be gay in an environment where homophobia is mundane and rampant, and where gays are silenced, ridiculed, and assaulted in everyday life?

• Ayomide Bayowa

Nigerian Canadian poet Ayomide Bayowa discusses the influences behind his latest poetry collection.

• Afolabi Adekaiyaoja

After winning Italy’s Serie A with Napoli, Victor Osimhen has cemented his claim to being Africa’s biggest footballing icon. But is the trend of individual stardom good for sports and politics?

• Jibrin Ibrahim

Although calling for the cancellation of Nigeria’s February elections is counterintuitive, the truth is that they were marred by fraud, voter suppression, technical glitches and vote-buying.

• Désọ́lá

For black women in particular, the individual pursuit of a soft, consumption-driven life is a fragile approach to securing social justice.

• Umar Aminu Yandaki

The personal archives of Dr. Yusufu Bala Usman, a Nigerian pro-democracy activist, suggests that same-faith presidential tickets are not necessarily about religious domination.

• Omole Ibukun

The events of May Day 1998 in Nigeria and lessons from Ola Oni on fighting for democracy in multi-ethnic societies.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Buharism, the social and economic outlook of Nigeria’s outgoing president, did not seek an alternative to neoliberal globalization, but sought to consolidate Nigeria’s place in it.

• Nanre Nafziger

In Nigeria’s recent election cycle, many citizens looked to Peter Obi for change. But the country needs people-led social transformation, not saviors.

• Camilla Houeland

A few days after Nigeria’s presidential elections, with a disputed winner declared, here are some initial conclusions and prospects.

• Camilla Houeland
• Sa’eed Husaini

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.

• William Shoki

With the working classes down and out, it is arguably the middle classes that will play the more decisive role in African politics going forward.

• William Shoki

This month, Africa's largest democracy and economy goes to the polls. On the AIAC podcast, we discuss Nigeria's upcoming elections.

• Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman

Mainstream discourses about Aamajiranci, northern Nigeria’s Qur'anic schooling system, expose the power politics of knowledge in postcolonial societies.

• Désọ́lá

The "follow-back" economy of Nigerian Twitter represents a struggle for recognition in a vastly unequal and status-obsessed society.

• Rabiat Akande

The legal politics of religious difference in late colonial northern Nigeria still resonate more than 60 years post-independence.

• Samuel Anim

The Nigerian presidential candidate’s claim of 'emi lokan' (it’s my turn) reveals complex ethnic politics and a stagnated democracy. Most responses to it, humor and rumor, reflect how Nigerians enact democratic citizenship.

• Adedimeji Quayyim Abdul-Hafeez

Nollywood makes more films than Hollywood and Bollywood. What it lacks is strong marketing and promotion.

• Moses E. Ochonu

Africans have been decolonizing, critiquing, but also enriching liberal democracy from an African perspective since colonial times. Pro-democracy and decolonial intellectuals owe a debt to this body of work and can learn from it.

• Ayodeji Ogunnaike

Yoruba political ontology, non-competitive democracy, and the sacrality of power in Nigeria.