The ‘Hidden Hand’ of Europe Migration: Western Tears, African Victims
While Europeans cry that their way of life is under threat, it is Africans who suffer under exploitative conditions on their continent.
December 19/January 20
The Art of Conversation Proverbs in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
In Things Fall Apart, Achebe adopts and adapts the English Language as a means of access to Igbo indigenous culture, aesthetics and cosmology.
Beyond the War Nigeria’s Approach to Deradicalizing Ex-Boko Haram Combatants
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.
‘Na Money Be Fine Bobo’ The Politics of Poor Taste
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.
The Right to Dissent Citizen Freedoms and Nigeria's Story of Permanent Unease
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?
Achebe’s Women A Feminist Reading of Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah
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.
We Need New Names Who is the African Writer?
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.
Let the Photo be Taken (1974-2017) A Conversation with Mozambican Photojournalist Naita Ussene
This conversation serves as a retrospective on Naita Ussene, as a photographer, and his country, Mozambique, as his muse.
The Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe Reclaiming Africa's Past, Writing Its Present, Shaping Its Future
Achebe had a keen grasp of how language demonstrated power, how power determined what was considered knowledge, and how this knowledge could become truth.
Revisiting African Humanism The Moral Dimensions of Xenophobic Incidents
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.