V3, N2 Democracy under President Buhari

Vol. 3, No. 2

Democracy under President Buhari

IN THIS ISSUE

COVER ESSAYS

⎈ Democracy Questioned: How Democracy Can Fail Us, and What to Do about It by Moyosore Orekoya;

⎈ For the People, Without the People: The Crisis of Representation in Nigerian Politics by Dafe Oputu;

⎈ Why Do We Vote?—Questioning Political Ideology in Nigeria by Cynthia Igodo; and

⎈ Trapped in a Militarized Democracy: The Armed State of Nigeria’s Political Space by Fisayo Ajala.

FEATURE ESSAYS

⎈ ‘Mai Ganga ya Gode, Yaran Mai Ganga sun Gode’: Campaign Songs, Kannywood and Politics in Northern Nigeria by Aisha Aliyu-Bima;

⎈ Money Miss Road?—On Political Financing in Nigeria by Anie Anokuru;

⎈ Lessons from the Third Force: Nigeria’s 2019 Elections in Review by Oluwamayowa Idowu;

⎈ What We Think about when We Think about Elections: Revisiting Political Ideology in Nigeria by Naro Omo-Osagie & Chukwuka Gideon Isika;

REVIEW ESSAYS

⎈ Nigeria’s ‘Pentecostal’ Presidency: Ebenezer Obadare’s Pentecostal Republic by Kasope Aleshinloye;

⎈ A Poultry Farmer’s Song of Burden in the Face of Fate: Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities by Lanre Apata; and

⎈ Colouring inside the Politically Personal: Nanjala Nyabola’s Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics by Stella Njogo.

ART

⎈ Cover illustration: ‘We Decided’, by Adekunle Adeleke; commissioned and adapted by The Republic; and

⎈ Spread: photographs by Manny Jefferson on first-time voters in Lagos, commissioned by The Republic.