Destination 中国 Unravelling Nigerian Migrations to China
Since the 1990s, migration in the West has been going through a process of politicization, in part due to the geopolitical shifts that occurred after the fall o... Read More...
Culture & Society
Eritrean Identity and Migration Discourse as Shaped by Indefinite National Service and Education Reforms
To escape the authoritarian government under President Isaias Afwerki, evade forced conscription, and/or find economic opportunities, an estimated 5,0... Read More...
Capitalism Central A History of Lagos and Migration
Few issues have raised more global concern in recent time than the issue of migration—the movement of people and goods within and across borders. Migration tren... Read More...
An Upright Man? The Unexpected Fall of Buhari's Reputation
Despite the current economic conditions, it remains that Nigeria was one of the poster nations of the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative. The Africa Rising paradigm was ... Read More...
Beating the Corruption Enterprise A Policy Approach to Criminal Justice in Nigeria
Perpetrators of criminal acts routinely defeat the machinery of justice, enabled by their understanding of the limited capacity of state agents, borders and ins... Read More...
Human Rights in Buhari’s Nigeria Contextualizing Human Rights in Buhari’s Nigeria
There is no modern political history of Africa without a history of struggle—for the recognition of racial equality; for political emancipation; for the affirma... Read More...
Giving Voice to One People’s Grief Derek Walcott and the Life-Giving Force of Poetry
On the 17th of March 2017, the Nobel prize-winning poet and playwright, Derek Walcott, passed away on his native island of St. Lucia. He was 87. I fir... Read More...
How to Write about Boko Haram 'Eat the Heart of the Infidel'
A political arena plagued by corruption and a crisis of legitimacy; a deepening sense of moral outrage within the populace and, in particular, amongst its youth... Read More...
F is for Human The Evolution of Feminist Consciousness
Twenty-first century feminism has come to be occupied with promoting a specific, and reified, understanding of womanhood. It is an understanding of womanhood in which 'real women' are forced to choose an adherence to the feminist ‘super-frame’ over and above any understanding of the intricate and complex substance that makes women thinking and feeling individuals.
Women Can’t Be Heroes The Erasure of Female Pain and the Nationalization of Male Suffering
In the beginning, according to a version of the Yoruba creation story, Olodumare, the creator of the universe, sent 17 Oriṣas on a mission to establish the eart... Read More...