Looking for Solace Queerness, Colonialism, and the Power of Trust in Accra, Ghana
In Ghana, as in the rest of West Africa, queer people are subject to considerable repression, which may assume social and legal dimensions.
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Culture & Society
When We Talk of Freedom Hijabs, Respectability and What it Actually Means to be Free
Oppression does not exist in a vacuum. It exists to serve the demarcation between the superior and the inferior, no matter how faulty such a demarcation is. And the demarcation there was a piece of clothing, a veil.
Poet in the Time of Buhari Nigeria at 59
The country is burning, both in dream and in wakefulness. To which part of the flames must he, the firefighter, turn his hose?
Dennis Osadebe’s Near Future Art in The Republic V3 N3
We spoke to Dennis Osadebe, whose series 'Work. Life. Balance' features in our third print issue, which explores living and working in the digital era.
Amos Tutuola’s Unwonted Predicament A Writer's Many Controversies
Who really was Amos Tutuola? An amazing but naïve primitivist? An ethnographic curiosity? A quasi-plagiarist of the fantastical creations of D.O. Fagunwa? The most likely answer: he was all of these but also more.
No More Insufficient Funds Yahoo Yahoo and Cybercrime’s International Ecosystem
Nigeria is not alone in cybercrime. But among a considerable number of Nigerians, cybercrime or Yahoo Yahoo exists at the intersection of crime and means of livelihood; wrong but necessary.
#TooBigToLike Questioning ‘Choice’ in Global Surveillance Capitalism
Big Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, exhibit a new stage of corporate power. These organizations are so large, our views on them are inconsequential—they have effectively become too big to like.
Siblinghood and the Psychology of Trauma Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer uses the expansiveness of the prose form to ask, ‘how far can we go for people we love?’
Long Live the Children of Disobedience Patriarchy and the Limits of Feminism’s Transformative Power
Feminism’s transformative power is one Nigeria greatly needs; and as Nigeria's feminist movement grows, its adherents show no interests in being respectable.
Zombiescapes Africa's Megacity Addiction
Across Africa, governments are looking to megacities to solve urban problems. But African cities need to focus less on skyscrapers and more on city halls.