‘Writing is Like a Muscle’ Oyinkan Braithwaite’s First Draft
Author of My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite, got the inspiration for her novel while reading about the black widow spider. Read our interview.
December 21/January 22
The Madness of Competition Squid Game in the Nigerian Imagination
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.
What Does Africapitalism Actually Mean? Power, Gender and the Promise of Africapitalism
All forms of capitalism, including Africapitalism, ultimately, depend on the devaluation and exploitation of essential domestic labour, which women still perform almost exclusively in Africa. Read more.
Looking for God To Find God, I Had to Leave Religion Behind
I grew up wanting to get closer to God. But to find God I had to leave religion behind. Read more.
Review: Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad The Women in Lagos are Just as Crazy
Lagos men are not for the faint-hearted and Kuku’s women are not the women who ‘sit down and take it’. Read more.
Data, Public Interest and National Security The Politics of Data Security in Nigeria
The Nigerian government is trying to create a database that links mobile phone users’ SIM cards with their National Identity Numbers—but can any government today be trusted with citizens’ sensitive data? Read more.
‘Almost All Great Writing Comes from Disciplined and Ambitious Readers’ Howard W. French’s First Draft
Journalist, professor and author of ‘Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War’, Howard W. French, spent ten years researching the book. Read our interview.
Wiredu’s Consensus Introducing Kwasi Wiredu’s Consensual Democracy
In a consensual democracy, ‘politics’ is everybody’s participatory responsibility, and Wiredu’s ideas force us to imagine the kind of societies in which diligent senses of careful responsibility could be realized. Read more.
Women Who Lead Feminist Protests and Politics in Nigeria
For protests such as #EndSARS where women play prominent leadership roles, gender stereotypes that assign leadership roles to men encourage dampen these protests at a much faster rate than protests led by men. Read more.
‘I Can Never Get Bored of Writing About Sex’ Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s First Draft
Author of 'The Sex Lives of African Women' and co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, will never stop writing about sex. Read our interview.