OPSC will live beyond the war being waged against Boko Haram. But such a programme to reintegrate former insurgents must also acknowledge the victims and communities most affected by the insurgency.
In the realm of aesthetics, the concept of taste is an implicit class war. In Nigeria, there is a belief that people without money should be focused on necessity and not frivolity.
What are the permissible boundaries for intelligence and policing actors in a democracy? And who defines the limit of freedom of expression in a democracy?
A feminist reading of Achebe's texts is a restoration of the visions of women not only in Africa's past but also in the continent's present and the future.
An 'African writer' can either be an African writer or a writer from Africa. One may conflate these terms but the two are distinct. While the former refers to a writer who affirms their African-ness as the source of their art, the latter refers to origin, a writer from Africa.
Achebe had a keen grasp of how language demonstrated power, how power determined what was considered knowledge, and how this knowledge could become truth.
History reminds us that xenophobia is not an entirely South African problem. Indeed, across Africa, it has been used as a policy instrument by governments, time and time again.