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Amos Tutuola’s Unwonted Predicament A Writer's Many Controversies

Sanya OshaAugust 30, 2019

Who really was Amos Tutuola? An amazing but naïve primitivist? An ethnographic curiosity? A quasi-plagiarist of the fantastical creations of D.O. Fagunwa? The most likely answer: he was all of these but also more.

August/September 2019Library

No More Insufficient Funds Yahoo Yahoo and Cybercrime’s International Ecosystem

Adewale OloworekendeAugust 28, 2019

Nigeria is not alone in cybercrime. But among a considerable number of Nigerians, cybercrime or Yahoo Yahoo exists at the intersection of crime and means of livelihood; wrong but necessary.

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#TooBigToLike Questioning ‘Choice’ in Global Surveillance Capitalism

Aarshin KarandeAugust 20, 2019

Big Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, exhibit a new stage of corporate power. These organizations are so large, our views on them are inconsequential—they have effectively become too big to like.

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Siblinghood and the Psychology of Trauma Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer

Lanre ApataAugust 16, 2019

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer uses the expansiveness of the prose form to ask, ‘how far can we go for people we love?’

August/September 2019Library

Reading Nigeria’s Political History What to Read on Politics in Post-independence Nigeria

Farida Funmi AkanjiJune 23, 2019

The texts in this reading list, while not exhaustive, expand on how Nigerian politics arrived at what it is today.

June/July 2019Library

Colouring inside the Politically Personal Nanjala Nyabola's Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics

Stella NjogoMay 9, 2019

In her latest book, Nanjala Nyabola paints the complexities of Kenyan politics as underlies the relationship between Kenyans and digital technology.

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A Poultry Farmer’s Song of Burden in the Face of Fate Chigozie Obioma's An Orchestra of Minorities

Lanre ApataMay 9, 2019

In his latest book, Chigozie Obioma draws readers and critics to the understanding of a man through the metaphysics of existence.

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Visual Politics in Apartheid South Africa How Images Shaped the Anti-Apartheid Movement

Emmanuela OnyiloforMarch 1, 2019

In the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa, images were used as weapons against the oppressive government to attack the injustices of the system.

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