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Event: Love Does Not Win Elections Ayisha Osori on Political Participation in Nigeria

May 25, 2018

African Mobilities Olalekan Jeyifous Public Lecture

October 15, 2017

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Today in 1961, the Monrovia Group convened in Libe

Today in 1961, the Monrovia Group convened in Liberia for the first time.
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On 8 May 1961, the Monrovia Group met officially in Liberia for the first time. The group known as the Conference of Independent African States was a short-lived association of African states with a shared Pan-African vision.
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The Monrovia Group was one of two major associations advocating for the independence of African countries and a united Africa in the early 1960s. The group had 24 members, most of which were made up of newly liberated Francophone countries as well as Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo, Tunisia and the DRC.
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The other group was called the Casablanca Group. Its member states were Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Tanzania, Guinea, Libya, Mali, and Morocco.
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While the Monrovia Group believed that independent African states should cooperate but retain national sovereignty, the Casablanca Group held more radical beliefs that deep integration of African countries was the only way to defeat colonialism and foster true growth.
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In 1963, the two groups united to establish a formal, continent-wide organisation called the Organisation for African Unity (OAU).
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📝: Ibukun Olokode and Ugonna Eronini
📷: President William Tubman of Liberia, one of the leading figures of the Monrovia Group. AFP

Who is Irene Cohen? #OnSite⚡⠀ -⠀ In this onl

Who is Irene Cohen? #OnSite⚡⠀
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In this online essay, ethnographic researcher, Amandla Ayah, writes about the life of Angolan freedom fighter, Irene Cohen, and her comrades.⠀
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Irene Cohen was born on 19 April 1939 to a middle-class family from Benguela, Angola. By the time she turned 21, she had joined the pro-nationalist, inter-racial intellectual community, the Association of Angolan Nationals. A few years later, she joined the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and went to Portugal to advance the anti-colonial struggle.⠀
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She and four other women—Engrácia, Teresa, Lucrécia, and Deolinda—are the only known women to have taken up arms and to have joined an otherwise all-male military detachment. They died in combat fighting for Angola’s independence.⠀
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Every year, on 2 March, these women are eulogized on Angolan Women’s Day; their short and tragic lives are emblematic of African feminism and national pride.⠀
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Read the full essay by clicking the link in our bio,⠀
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📝: Amandla Ayah⠀
📷: DVD cover of documentary Langidila on Deolinda Rodrigues' experience. FRANCISCO MIUDO

‘There’s so much to say about the media’s re

‘There’s so much to say about the media’s representation of Black female bodies.’ — Boetumelo Julianne Nyasulu in our latest First Draft.⠀
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First Draft is our interview column, featuring authors and other prominent figures on books, reading, and writing.⠀
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Author, Nyasulu writes: ‘There are a number of problematic predominant scripts of Black female bodies in the global media. There’s the slave/servant/Mammy role which unnecessarily includes scripts of Black women that provide neither context nor significance, other than a mindless consumption of servant, sexual or abusive scenes for the entertainment industry. Black female bodies are involved in discourses of dehumanization and distortion and framed as something to behold. As feminist bell hooks questioned, “Do we have to have the Black female dehumanized, tortured, [and] raped in order to have enjoyment?”’⠀
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Read Nyasulu’s full interview by clicking the link in our bio.⠀
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📝: Boetumelo Julianne Nyasulu⠀
📷: Ojima Abalaka

Will more seats fix Nigeria’s low female politic

Will more seats fix Nigeria’s low female political representation? #RxGender👥
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On 28 April, Nigeria’s National Assembly held a plenary session during which members passed a bill that seeks to create 111 seats for women in the National Assembly and States House of Assembly for second reading. Sponsored by the Deputy Chief Whip, Hon. Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, all the female representatives and majority of the male representatives, the bill will create 37 additional seats in the Senate and 74 in the House of Representatives.
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The bill titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to Alter the Provision of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, to create Additional Special Seats for Women in the Federal and States Legislative Houses; and for Related Matters,’ was read for the first time on Thursday, 22 April 2021. The bill seeks to alter the provisions of the 1999 Constitution totalling the Senate seats to 146 and the House of Representatives to 434. Currently, the Senate has 109 seats, while the House of Representatives has 360.
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Onyejeocha said the bill would address the low representation of women in legislative houses. Citing the low participation of women in Nigerian politics, she said 'other countries have made this concerted effort to think outside the box and I believe that this is the only way it will work in this country.'
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According to the Nation, while the intention of the bill is good and cannot be faulted, concerns about the inadequate resources needed to fund the additional seats must be looked at. Analysts have calculated that this would translate to tax payers committing more than a billion naira more on a monthly basis to fund the additional 111 seats.
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📝: Tomisin Awosika, Editorial Assistant

Today in 1946, Herbert Macaulay died aged 82.⠀ -

Today in 1946, Herbert Macaulay died aged 82.⠀
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On 7 May 1946, Nigerian nationalist, political activist, journalist and founder of the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), Herbert Macaulay died. He is widely considered to be the founder of Nigerian nationalism. He was 82.⠀
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Born on 14 November 1864 in Lagos, Macaulay was the seventh child of his Nigerian-Sierra Leonean parents. His father, Thomas Babington Macaulay, was the first principal of CMS Grammar School in Lagos and his grandfather was Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the first indigenous Anglican bishop in Nigeria.⠀
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Macaulay was a loud critic of the British colonial administration in Nigeria. Although he was banned from running for public office because of past convictions, Macaulay was actively involved in the political scene in Nigeria.⠀
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In 1915, he led a grassroots protest in Lagos against water tax rates and planned colonial land reform. In 1921, he helped the Eleko of Lagos win a land tenure case against the colonial government. In 1923, he started the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), Nigeria’s first political party.⠀
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Did you know that Herbert Macaulay’s portrait was featured on the one-naira note from 1979 until 1991? In 1991, a coin replaced the one-naira note.⠀
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Read historian, Max Siollun, on Macaulay's legacy as the father of Nigerian nationalism by clicking the link in our bio.⠀
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📝: Ibukun Olokode and Ugonna Eronini⠀
📷: Herbert Macaulay. WIKIPEDIA

What do writing and worship have in common? Quite

What do writing and worship have in common? Quite a lot, according to Boetumelo Julianne Nyasulu in our latest First Draft. She writes:⠀
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‘I often describe writing as my form of worship—I truly feel closest to God when I write. Like it’s exactly what I’m supposed to be doing. I’m transported somewhere, and hours go by. I sit down and just pour out the things on my mind or heart.’⠀
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First Draft is our interview column, featuring authors and other prominent figures on books, reading and writing. Read Nyasulu’s full interview by clicking the link in our bio.⠀
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📝: Boetumelo Julianne Nyasulu.⠀
📷: Ojima Abalaka.

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