Nigeria
Cricket is big in Nigeria
Cricket is gloriously multilayered, with strategy and tactics available in abundance.
After the Bulldozers
Recommended: a short film about the fate of 10,000 residents displaced after a thriving market in Lagos, Nigeria.
Something of an anticlimax
For grounded and textured analysis of the death of Nigeria's President Umaru Yar’adua, it is worth consulting Nigeria’s vibrant media landscape, rather than Western media.
America? Begging in Nigeria!
A white woman begging in Lagos's popular Mushin Market. Turns out it is a performance piece.
Somalia’s colonizers dressed well
Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times’ Africa Correspondent, frequently seizes opportunities to slander Africans while praising their colonizers.
The Trumpet King
Zeal Onyia was a master Nigerian trumpet player from the 1950s treated as an equal by Louis Armstrong.
Representing Fela
The New York Times' chief theater critic, surprise, misses the point about the musical, "Fela!"
The Case of the Missing President
The case of Nigeria's missing president, Umaru Yar'Adua, can be added to the already long list of problems in Africa's largest democracy.
The New Black Atlantic
What does it mean when a Tanzanian rapper joins a cypher on BET, the US entertainment TV channel on its biggest night - during prime time - and rhymes in Swahili.
Nigerian Millionaires
That time Nigeria's government objected to a commercial for SONY's PS3 video game console.