Promise Frank Ejiofor, Author at The Republic

The Right to Love The Fallacy of Homophobia in Postcolonial Africa

Promise Frank EjioforFebruary 21, 2022

‘African homophobia’ is a distinct variant of global homophobia because it is based on unique theoretical foundations that blend prejudices imported from non-African (mostly Western and Islamic) contexts. Read more.

Best of 2022February/March 2022

The Madness of Competition Squid Game in the Nigerian Imagination

Promise Frank EjioforJanuary 24, 2022

Much like Nigeria, in Squid Game, players emerge victorious not really due to their skills but due in large measure to cheating. Success is a matter of survival of the fittest but the fittest is the trickster. Read more.

Best of 2022December 21/January 22Nigeria

The New Mobility Apartheid? The Case for Vaccine Cosmopolitanism

Promise Frank EjioforMay 26, 2021

Vaccine passports without vaccine harmonization would tear the entire world apart and suspend the human right―the right of free movement―of the world’s poorest people. Read more.

April/May 2021

‘Writing never dies.’ Promise Frank Ejiofor's First Draft

Promise Frank EjioforMarch 5, 2021

Author of ‘A Post-Coup World’ and ‘Looting as Cartharsis’, Promise Frank Ejiofor, grew up on books. ‘I grew to love literature to the point that I feared that I would go mad if I did not read or write something every week.’

February/March 2021First DraftInterviews

Transcending Economics Racism and Anti-Racism in the Modern World

Promise Frank EjioforMarch 1, 2021

To address racism, we must transcend economics and seek avenues through which different groups can interact under conditions of mutual interdependence and equality. Read more.

February/March 2021

Looting as Catharsis #EndSARS and the Crisis of Governance in Nigeria

Promise Frank EjioforDecember 22, 2020

#EndSARS is not just one massive protest for police reform or even for democratic accountability. It is a reckoning meant to counter the crisis in governance whilst the looting which happened in the aftermath of the protests is a catharsis. Read more.

December 20/January 21vol4-no4

This photo is for our essay on A Post-Coup World

A Post-Coup World? Mali and the Slow Decline of Military Dictatorships

Promise Frank EjioforOctober 7, 2020

What the decline of military leaders in Africa portends is that African peoples are gradually coming to terms with the fact that the state must be accountable to them and should not be the exclusive preserve of a privileged few. Read more.

MaliOctober/November 2020

Promise Frank Ejiofor

The Right to Love The Fallacy of Homophobia in Postcolonial Africa

The Madness of Competition Squid Game in the Nigerian Imagination

The New Mobility Apartheid? The Case for Vaccine Cosmopolitanism

‘Writing never dies.’ Promise Frank Ejiofor's First Draft

Transcending Economics Racism and Anti-Racism in the Modern World

Looting as Catharsis #EndSARS and the Crisis of Governance in Nigeria

A Post-Coup World? Mali and the Slow Decline of Military Dictatorships

Promise Frank Ejiofor

2023 Election Updates Daily Briefings from The Republic

Black Mecca A Brief History of Black Islam from Africa to the Diaspora

Interim Royals The Marginalization of Women-Regents in Present-Day Yoruba Monarchy

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