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Creating a New Path How Redefining Ethnicity Beyond Traditional Kinship Can Change Nigeria

Ikpeme NetoApril 11, 2023

As Nigeria evolves, the definition of kin must become less related to language and states of origin but to the shared risk from the effect of the decisions made by the administration in power.

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‘Good Writing Elevates Any Subject’ Daniel Olaoluwa Whyte’s First Draft

Daniel Olaoluwa WhyteApril 7, 2023

Nigerian author and researcher, Daniel Olaoluwa Whyte, believes repatriation of looted artefacts is just the first step.

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Bloodshed and Ballot Boxes ‘Gangs of Lagos’ (2023) Review

Afoma DikeApril 6, 2023

Beyond the surface themes of friendship, family ties and betrayal, Gangs of Lagos takes a closer look at thuggery and politically affiliated gang culture in Nigeria, exploring the country’s historically overlooked backstories.

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West Africa’s Slow-Onset Crisis The Evolving Nature of Violence in West Africa

Abel GaiyaApril 4, 2023

West Africa has experienced evolving violence since independence, first by recording the highest share of military coup frequency in Africa between 1960 and 1989, then in the Mano River regional crisis of 1989-2003, and finally terrorism in the Lake Chad region and the Liptako-Gourma region from 2010 till date.

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A New Image of Africa’s Future How African Futurism Can Help African Policymakers Solve Africa’s Toughest Challenges

Charles EbikemeApril 3, 2023

Across Africa and its diaspora, there is a rich database of culture already at play, by novelists, poets, musicians, filmmakers, with diversely imagined futures. These imaginings are now no longer restricted to the cultural space but are finding their way into the world of science, research and policymaking.

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Golden Lion Demas Nwoko Will Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

Hillary EssienApril 2, 2023

Demas Nwoko’s work has been described as ’sustainable, resource-mindful, and (as) culturally authentic forms of expression now sweeping across the African continent’.

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‘I Am Currently Writing Two Books’ Abel Gaiya’s First Draft

Abel GaiyaMarch 31, 2023

Nigerian author and development researcher, Abel Gaiya, believes West Africa is going in circles.

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2023 Election Updates Daily Briefings from The Republic

The RepublicMarch 31, 2023

Updates on the 2023 general elections, covering news on candidates, voting and other related issues. Read more

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Computational Conscience Problematizing Freedoms in Artificial Intelligence

Aarshin KarandeMarch 30, 2023

Interests in controlling the hopes and fears about intelligent machines have shaped imagined possibilities and vice versa. Mutually co-constitutive hopes and fears have defined the imagining of AI; hopes for a longer life, free of work, and power over others is inseparable from fears like losing identity, becoming redundant, and that AI will turn against ‘us.’ These hopes reflect deep-rooted narratives of human aspirations meeting technological possibilities.

February/March 2023Nigeria

A National Own Goal? The Dangers of a Same-Faith Presidency

Gbọ́láhàn AdébíyìMarch 29, 2023

Nigeria’s corporate existence is reliant on the peaceful co-existence of people of different ethnicities and religions. APC’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket and ‘win’ have broken decades of political and ethical convention regarding party ticketing, and threatens Nigeria’s ‘delicate balance’.

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