Remembering the Past, Rewriting the Future Creating a New Nigerian Narrative

Fife OgundeSeptember 29, 2022
From Soft Life to Soft Power Reconsidering Nigeria’s Regional and Global Influence

Chukwudi UkonneAugust 8, 2022
The Making of a King The Historical Significance of Olu Atuwatse III

Allegra Otsaye AyidaJuly 25, 2022
Young, Gifted and Radical The Figures Behind the Zikist Movement

Akintunde AgunbiadeMay 16, 2022

Editors Picks: Independence Day

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

The Wizard of Kirsten Hall Who Was Herbert Macaulay?

Max SiollunMay 4, 2021

75 years ago, Herbert Macaulay, one of the most iconic Nigerians of all time, died. Perhaps his greatest legacy was to establish a political party, Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), which became a vehicle for Nigerian nationalism. Read more

April/May 2021Editors Picks: Independence Day

On the National Red Line Negotiating Nigeria’s ‘Non-Negotiable’ Unity

Chukwudi UkonneJanuary 27, 2021

The Aburi conference held in Ghana in January 1967 was one of the few times that Nigeria’s unity was ever truly ‘negotiated. Read more.

Best of 2021: EssaysDecember 20/January 21Editors Picks: Independence Day

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An Irony of History The Complicated Legacy of Chief Obafemi Awolowo

Chukwudi UkonneAugust 31, 2020

Peer, predecessor or successor, Awolowo’s unequivocal articulation of a clear and consistent political ideology places him above anyone else in Nigeria’s political history. Read more.

August/September 2020Editors Picks: Independence Day

Nigerian Military Leadership Obasanjo 1977

Nigeria’s Arrested Development A History of Accidental Presidents

Chukwudi UkonneApril 17, 2020

While many are of the opinion that Nigeria started out on the right path politically and somehow derailed, there is a divergent school of thought suggesting that Nigeria always lacked progressive leadership from the get-go.

April/May 2020Editors Picks: Independence Day

Nigeria’s Missing Multipliers Women, Vision 2020 and Nigeria’s Legal Blindspot

Cynthia IgodoApril 6, 2020

Development plans like Vision 2020 failed by design, resting on legal frameworks that near-completely overlooked women—half the population—in Nigeria.

April/May 2020Editors Picks: Independence Dayvol4-no2

Pseudo Hope: A Discourse On Nigeria's Vision 2020 and Future Development

Bibiana Ossai and John BabalolaApril 3, 2020

Nigeria may still be able to achieve its Vision 2020 goals, after 2020.

April/May 2020Editors Picks: Independence Dayvol4-no2

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A Wake-Up Call? The Recent Travel Restrictions on Nigerians

Zainab UsmanMarch 9, 2020

It will be a grave mistake to treat Nigeria’s recent US visa ban as a one-off event, rather than a larger issue of limited leverage in a rapidly changing world that we seem ill-prepared to navigate.

Editors Picks: Independence DayFebruary/March 2020vol4-no2

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

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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