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Today in 2014, a twin bomb attack killed at least

Today in 2014, a twin bomb attack killed at least 30 people in Jos. #RxHistory⏳⁠
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On 11 December 2014, two bomb attacks occurred at crowded marketplaces in a commercial district in Jos, and killed at least 30 people, according to BBC News.⁠
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The first explosion took place at an outdoor food stand, while the second blast hit a Jos marketplace. This happened in the buildup to the 2015 presidential election, where Goodluck Jonathan lost the presidency to Muhammadu Buhari.⁠
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The attack was reportedly carried out by Boko Haram, following a similar attack in Jos in May 2014 that killed more than 100 people.⁠
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Learn more about terrorism in Nigeria at the link in our bio.⁠
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📝 Wemimo Ogunmoyela.⁠
📷: Rescue workers carry an injured victim of twin bombings in the Nigerian city of Jos to a hospital. Dec. 11. AFP/Getty Images.

🚨 Our Holiday issue, The Age of Afrobeats, is n

🚨 Our Holiday issue, The Age of Afrobeats, is now available!⁠
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Afrobeats has come of age, demanding as much celebration as it does introspection. No longer is Afrobeats simply an offshoot of Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat; the genre has forged newer sounds, earned its legitimacy and has begun charting its own paths, facing unique challenges and opportunities. Afrobeats has surpassed the ‘broad’ discourse commonly associated with it—in which the genre is considered as a single, homogenous unit with few distinct artists. Instead, in the individual stories of Afrobeats artists, a deeper past, a more complicated present and a future of varied possibilities emerges.⁠
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How, for instance, does an artist like Aṣa help us better engage with the rise, meaning and potential of Afrobeats? Could rapper, M.I’s story help us consider cities like Jos as seminal to the emergence of Afrobeats, thereby expanding the narrative beyond Lagos? In fast-rising Ayra Starr and her synergy with the savvy Mavin Records, can we see a future in which Afrobeats routinely benefits from cohesive, clever combinations of creativity and business fundamentals? Is Asake, whose music is largely Yoruba but rapidly achieved a global audience, an example of this clever cohesion or is he an anomaly?⁠
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This year, our Holiday issue considers these questions, the past, present and future of Afrobeats, and more.⁠
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This issue features: @saratu.morolayo on @asaofficial; @jollypaps on @asakemusic; @e.esomnofu on @ayrastarr; @olasubomioye on @burnaboygram; @jidesalawu on @davido; @carlterver on @mi_abaga; @erni.gram on @psquareworld; @indigo.distortion on @tiwasavage; and Patrick Ezema on @wizkidayo.⁠
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7 Books to Read About Life in Eastern Nigeria 📚

7 Books to Read About Life in Eastern Nigeria 📚️⁠
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The following book recommendations include fiction and non-fiction books set in the eastern part of Nigeria. Our #bookrecommendations explore themes of personal identity, history, culture, loss, communal living, civil war, and more.⁠
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Have you read any of these books? What book(s) set in eastern Nigeria would you recommend?⁠
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Click the link in our bio for more book recommendations.⁠
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📝: Peace Onafuye (@yetundeandbooks), Associate Editor

Today in 2005, the Sosoliso plane crash that shook

Today in 2005, the Sosoliso plane crash that shook Nigeria occurred. #RxHistory⏳⁠
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On 10 December 2005, Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145, a domestic passenger flight carrying 109 people from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, crashed at the Port Harcourt International Airport.⁠
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As the plane approached a runway at the airport, it slammed into the ground and broke apart, crashed into a concrete platform, and then burst into flames. At the time of the crash, there was no water in the Port Harcourt International Airport, causing an intensification of the inferno.⁠
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Emergency fire support had to be provided by a private actor–Shell Petroleum. 107 passengers died, including the entire flight crew and 60 students of Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, who were on their way home for the Christmas holidays after the school session.⁠
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The plane was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, manufactured in 1973, one of several ‘fairly-used' airliners sold to Sosoliso after failing to meet European aviation standards. During an earlier flight, the plane had been sent for maintenance because of unusual noises it was emitting. But it returned to flight without the problem being resolved.⁠
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The runway lights at the airport were off despite the cloudy weather, because it lacked electricity at the time. Nigeria's Accident Investigation Bureau concluded that the probable cause of the crash was the crew's decision to continue descent towards the runway in low visibility conditions.⁠
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📝: Wemimo Ogunmoyela⁠
📷: 1) Sosoliso Airlines plane. Vanguard.⁠
2) A woman is consoled by her relatives after she identifies the corpse of her late husband, a victim of the Sosoliso plane crash in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, on 12 December 2005. George Osodi / APA⁠
3) Transport Minister looks at wreckage. Pius Utomi Ekpei / Getty.⁠
4) Sosoliso1145 Crash site. Pius Utomi Ekpei / Getty Images.

The Nigerian book that made Muthoni Muiruri cry. #

The Nigerian book that made Muthoni Muiruri cry. #OnSite⚡️⁠
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Kenyan publisher and co-founder of Soma Nami Books, Muthoni Muiruri, loves to read books that are intellectually stimulating and evoke an emotional reaction: ‘If a book makes me cry and teaches me empathy; if the characters stay with me long after reading, I consider that a forever book. I am also extremely grateful for books that teach me something, that challenge me and force me to reckon with my ignorance and biases and that compel me to want to research and learn.’⁠
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In our latest First Draft interview, Muiruri discussed common misconceptions about reading; the works of Kenyan authors such as Troy Onyango and Joan Thatiah; why Finding Me by Viola Davis is the perfect gift for the holiday season; and other interesting perspectives on reading and writing.⁠
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According to Muiruri: ‘We know very little about the personal lives of historical figures and this fascinates me—how they loved, how they hurt, how they felt, and what moved them.’⁠
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Read the full interview at the link in our bio.⁠
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📝: Muthoni Muiruri (@this_bookishgirl)⁠
🔎: Peace Onafuye (@yetundeandbooks), Editor⁠⁠
🎨: Kevwe Ogini, Illustrator

Today in 1948, a UN treaty designated genocide as

Today in 1948, a UN treaty designated genocide as an international crime. #RxHistory⏳️⁠
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On 09 December 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, and it declared genocide, the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnicity, as a crime under international law. ⁠
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After the atrocities committed during the Second World War, the Genocide Convention became the first human rights treaty adopted, signifying a commitment to prevent wartime incidents like the Holocaust, the Nanjing Massacre and for Africa, the infamous Rwandan Genocide. ⁠
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The Rwandan Genocide was a systematic campaign by the Hutu ethnic majority in 1994 which was aimed at wiping out each and every member of the minority Tutsi group. The genocide was set into motion by the death of Rwanda's Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana, when his plane was shot down by an unknown missile. ⁠
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The Hutu-controlled government and allied militias slaughtered between 800,000 and one million Tutsis before a Tutsi rebel group overthrew them. Over 100,000 Hutus were also killed, including both moderate Hutus killed by Hutu extremists and those killed by Tutsis in so-called ‘revenge killings.’ ⁠
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Swipe to learn more, and read more stories about African history at the link in our bio.⁠
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📝: Chiamaka Dike⁠
📷: 1) A Hutu man whose face was mutilated by the Hutu Interahamwe militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. James Nachtwey Archive, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth.⁠
2) The massacre site at the Rukara parish in Kabgayi, Rwanda, in April 1994.Gilles Peress/Magnum Photos.3) Paul Kagame, left, the leader of the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front, near Kigali in 1994.Gilles Peress/Magnum Photos⁠
3) Delegates from countries that signed the UN Genocide Convention. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gift of United Nations

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