• Ebenezer Obadare

Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.

• David Edwards

The planned global Education Outcomes Fund—the UN seems onboard—would create markets for “non-state” providers while guaranteeing profits for private investors that purchase “impact bonds.”

• Fareeda Abdulkareem

The feature film, 'Kasala,' feels like a documentary film about the Nigerian condition and appeals to anyone who has ever been poor.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

Everyone but the Chibok girls--subjects of #BringBackOurGirls--and their families in Nigeria have moved on, but history does not march on for the victims.

• Erin Haney
• Shravan Vidyarthi

Priya Ramrakha was one of the most prolific photographers of Africa’s independence movements in the 1950s and 1960s. This highlights his impact.

• Damola Durosomo

Focusing on sports allegiance to Nigeria, offered a break from pondering over all of its social ills.

• Ron Krabill
• Danny Hoffman

Watching the World Cup with a young Nigerian professional footballer in Seattle, U.S.

• Lindsey Green-Simms
• Brenna Munro

Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel about a closeted gay Nigerian comes out as we're witnessing a burgeoning African—and specifically Nigerian—literary attention to same-sex sexuality.

• Noah Tsika

Emmanuel Macron's Lagos visit came and went in a long tradition of diversionary state visits by Western politicians who condescend to Nigerians.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Sebastian Abbot

Two of Africa's standout talents at Russia 2018--Moussa Wague and Francis Uzoho--were shaped by a football academy in Qatar. A new book tells that story.

• Elaine Unterhalter
• Jibrin Ibrahim
• Lynsey Robinson

Nigeria is a fresh target of Bridge International, a global chain, whose schools have been shut down in Kenya and Uganda for violating their national laws.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

The friendship of the poets Syl Cheney-Coker and Niyi Osundare is the subject of the road movie documentary, "The Poets."

• Shobana Shankar

Boko Haram capitalized on the problems women face in Northern Nigeria to attract some willingly, while violently forcing others into bondage.

• Fati Abubakar

The author grapples with how to photograph the lives of her neighbors in a part of North East Nigeria, where Boko Haram is on a reign of terror.

• Ainehi Edoro
• Sarah Ladipo Manyika
• Wilfred Okiche
• Káyọ̀dé Fáníyì
• Fareeda Abdulkareem
• Toyin Ajao
• Dotun Ayobade

A group of Nigerian thinkers debate rapper Falz's take on Childish Gambino's viral "This Is America."

• Andy Kasrils

Why has Childish Gambino's "This is America" video resonated with so many people around the world?

• Kathryn Mathers

On The New York Times' tone-deaf photo-essays of a group of Nigerian women who managed to escape Boko Haram.

• Dotun Ayobade

There is very little self-made about Nigeria's young, rich and glamorous like oil magnate Paddy Adenuga and DJ Cuppy.

• George Kibala Bauer

Despite what Dangote wants us to believes about the magical power of entrepreneurship, his business savvy alone is not why he made it.

• Noah Tsika

Dare Olaitan’s film Ojukokoro gets some room to breathe in New York, after being stifled at the box office in Lagos.