• Elsa Rousset

The destruction of Tarkwa Bay in Lagos and the battle over what makes a city and who belongs in it.

• Vivian Chenxue Lu

Jumoke Verissimo’s first novel, A Small Silence, explores the psychic afterlives of protest in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.

• Dami Adebayo

The legacy of Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died from COVID-19, helps us understand how powerful and yet constrained Nigeria's Presidency is.

• moshood

Among other notable achievements, Wole Soyinka made political music. In 1983, he even released an album.

• Serawit Bekele Debele

A documentary film reclaims precolonial histories and spiritualities between Nigeria and Venezuela.

• Theo Borgvin-Weiss

Pentecostalism in Nigeria preaches that prayer, not political action, is the solution to COVID-19.

• Vincent Foucher

The French philosopher and TV personality favors spectacle over analysis. The result: we don't make sense of political violence in Nigeria.

• Moses E. Ochonu

What alternative pathways are available towards accountable governance in Nigeria?

• Dave Pier

Fela Kuti’s friend, Carlos Moore, the black Cuban emigre writer, is the subject of a film about their at times difficult relationship. The result is complex.

• Sakiru Adebayo

Nigerians’ anger and frustration are deservedly directed to their government. But few point to the special breed of Nigerians: the "Crazy Rich Nigerians."

• Matthew H. Brown

Among the many legacies of Teju Olaniyan’s teaching and writing would be a project to not only speak in the ideological name of Africa, but to redistribute the power of speaking in that name.

• Daniel Okechukwu

Filmmaker Akin Omotoso shows the Lagos that pushes the sane to insanity, the meek to thuggery and the lawful to anarchy.

• Kechi Nomu

In Nigeria, survivors of sexual violence and workplace sexual harassment know that facts are not enough.

• Caren Holmes

On the United Kingdom’s attempts to finance the construction of large-scale prison facilities in former colonies, to where it wants to deport undocumented migrants.

• Charles Etubiebi

A Nigerian play and its leading man confront western misrepresentations.

• Norbert Odero

For immigrants—especially African and black immigrants to Western countries—the question of home is complex.

• Noah Tsika

After having a heart attack, a white American falls in love with his Nigerian nurse in the CBS TV sitcom, Bob Hearts Abishola. It is also about Nigerian-Americans’ visibility on mainstream US television.

• Modupeola Oyebolu

The Nigerian-American writer, Tope Folarin, wrestles with blackness and black immigrant identity in his new novel.

• Daivi Rodima-Taylor
• Mustapha H. Kurfi
• Fallou Ngom

Ajami is the centuries-old practice in West Africa of writing other languages using the modified Arabic script. It is also more widely dispersed than we give it credit for.

• Nnamdi Awa Kalu

The midfielder Augustine "Jay Jay" Okocha is arguably one of Nigeria's best men's football players ever. It is his birthday today, August 14th.