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The Madness of Competition Squid Game in the Nigerian Imagination

Promise Frank EjioforJanuary 24, 2022

Much like Nigeria, in Squid Game, players emerge victorious not really due to their skills but due in large measure to cheating. Success is a matter of survival of the fittest but the fittest is the trickster. Read more.

December 21/January 22Nigeria

Looking for God To Find God, I Had to Leave Religion Behind

Ugochukwu Damian OkparaJanuary 19, 2022

I grew up wanting to get closer to God. But to find God I had to leave religion behind. Read more.

December 21/January 22NigeriaThe Black Atlantic

Review: Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad The Women in Lagos are Just as Crazy

Nneoma KenureJanuary 18, 2022

Lagos men are not for the faint-hearted and Kuku’s women are not the women who ‘sit down and take it’. Read more.

December 21/January 22Nigeria

‘Almost All Great Writing Comes from Disciplined and Ambitious Readers’ Howard W. French’s First Draft

Howard W. FrenchJanuary 14, 2022

Journalist, professor and author of ‘Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War’, Howard W. French, spent ten years researching the book. Read our interview.

December 21/January 22First DraftInterviewsUnited States

Sidney Poitier, the First Black Man to Win an Oscar Award, Has Died

Chiamaka DikeJanuary 11, 2022

Sidney Poitier, who in 1964 became the first Black actor to win an Oscar died on the evening of 06 January 2022. Read more.

January 2022NewsUnited States

Women Who Lead Feminist Protests and Politics in Nigeria

Chioma Okafor, Dr Olajumoke (Jumo) Ayandele and Dr Olubukunola OyedeleJanuary 10, 2022

For protests such as #EndSARS where women play prominent leadership roles, gender stereotypes that assign leadership roles to men encourage dampen these protests at a much faster rate than protests led by men. Read more.

December 21/January 22Nigeria

Detty December in Nigeria: ‘People are Tired of COVID-19 Protocols’

Todah OpeyemiDecember 24, 2021

In Nigeria this year, much of ‘Detty December’ may be fuelled by an unlikely source—growing apathy towards COVID-19. Read more.

December 2021NewsNigeria

This photo is for Andile Zulu's Black Atlantic Essay

On Being Black and Other Lies Unravelling My Blackness in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Andile ZuluDecember 22, 2021

I had always been anxious about returning to South Africa. Besides awkward puberty, an awakening awaited me in South Africa, sparked by a dizzying confrontation with the reality of race. Read more.

December 20/January 21South AfricaThe Black Atlantic

‘I Can Never Get Bored of Writing About Sex’ Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah’s First Draft

Nana Darkoa SekyiamahDecember 17, 2021

Author of 'The Sex Lives of African Women' and co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, will never stop writing about sex. Read our interview.

Best of 2021December 21/January 22First DraftGhanaInterviews