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Editors Picks: Independence Day

Recommended reading by The Republic‘s editors, on Nigeria’s independence and wider political history.

This image is for our piece on the Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe.

The Prophetic Vision of Chinua Achebe Reclaiming Africa's Past, Writing Its Present, Shaping Its Future

Boluwatife Akinro and Joshua Segun-LeanJanuary 13, 2020

Achebe had a keen grasp of how language demonstrated power, how power determined what was considered knowledge, and how this knowledge could become truth.

December 19/January 20Editors Picks: Independence Dayvol4-no1

Zata Iya A History of Hausa Feminist Writings

Sada MalumfashiDecember 13, 2019

The feminist champions of Hausa literature have their pens ready, full of fire, energy and imagination, emitting hidden truths through their words, and steadily reinventing the narratives of women in Northern Nigeria.

December 19/January 20Editors Picks: Independence DayReading Eidvol4-no1

This image is for our piece on Lagbaja, Our Second Democracy Superhero

Lagbaja, Something for You The Legacy of Our Second Democracy Superhero

Olamide Adio OlanrewajuDecember 6, 2019

Lagbaja’s music is a symbolic bridge that connects the old to the new; the dangers, apprehension, and injustices of the military era to a new age of democracy and hope.

December 19/January 20Editors Picks: Independence Day

This photo is for our piece on Language and the Ghost of Our Colonial Past.

Nollywords Lionheart, Language and the Ghost of Our Colonial Past

Ore OgunbiyiNovember 18, 2019

Nollywood gives Nigerian creatives room to take a language that we may not have chosen and use it to tell our stories in the way that we choose.

Editors Picks: Independence DayOctober/November 2019

This image is for our piece titled 'Poet, in the Time of Buhari'

Poet in the Time of Buhari Nigeria at 59

Moyosore OrimoloyeOctober 1, 2019

The country is burning, both in dream and in wakefulness. To which part of the flames must he, the firefighter, turn his hose?

Editors Picks: Independence DayOctober/November 2019

This photo is for our piece on the nigerianization of crimes in South Africa.

Phobia or Scapegoatism? The Nigerianization of Crimes in South Africa

Hakeem OnapajoSeptember 20, 2019

The rivalry between South Africa and Nigeria has affected the relationship between citizens of both countries to such an extent that they see themselves as being in a perpetual competition.

August/September 2019Editors Picks: Independence DayNigeriaSouth AfricaZimbabwe

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.

Editors Picks: Independence DayJune/July 2019Library

When Nigerians, Zimbabweans, and Rhodesians Talked About Race Revisiting Nigeria – Zimbabwe Relations

Brooks MarmonJune 7, 2019

While Nigerian support for Zimbabwean and broader southern African liberation was extensive, it was considerably more nuanced and more fractured than often remembered.

Editors Picks: Independence DayJune/July 2019NigeriaSouth AfricaZimbabwe

For the People, Without the People The Crisis of Representation in Nigerian Politics

Dafe oputuMay 9, 2019

If the Nigerian electorate is mostly young, mostly poor, and with significant representation of women and people living with disabilities, why is it that our elected representatives are so different?

“We Remember Differently” What Really Happened in Biafra

Dominique OtigbahMarch 10, 2018

"It is incontestable that the British not only made Nigeria, but also hand it to us whole on their surrender of power. But the Nigeria, which they handed over t... Read More...

Editors Picks: Independence DayOctober/November 2017