Reading Nigeria’s Political History What to Read on Politics in Post-independence Nigeria
The texts in this reading list, while not exhaustive, expand on how Nigerian politics arrived at what it is today.
History
When Nigerians, Zimbabweans, and Rhodesians Talked About Race Revisiting Nigeria – Zimbabwe Relations
While Nigerian support for Zimbabwean and broader southern African liberation was extensive, it was considerably more nuanced and more fractured than often remembered.
Anti-Fascism The Legacy of 1930s Pan-African Leaders
With the rise in white supremacist and nationalist movements around the world, often overlooked is the important history of Africa's role in anti-Fascism.
Africa’s Lost Decade Women and the Structural Adjustment Programme
It has been more than 30 years since the Structural Adjustment era swept across the African continent, but its impact on various economies cannot be discounted.... Read More...
The “Great Man” of Peace Kofi Annan (1938-2018)
Kofi Annan led the most important organization in global cooperative history at arguably one of the most intransigent periods of contemporary history.
The New Normal A Brief History of Climate Change
While on the 1798 Napoleon expedition to Egypt, a French mathematician and physicist, Joseph Fourier, became fascinated with the behaviour of heat. Two decades ... Read More...
The God of Colonization And Africa’s Post-Colonial Redemption
In discussing the politics of life across Africa, we cannot ignore religion. As Africans, our unique history of belief has made religion such an integrated part of our lives.
Reading Biafra What to Read on the Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian Civil War (also known as the Biafran War), from 1967 to 1970, was a complex conflict that still has a tight hold on politics and society in Nigeria... Read More...
Biafra and the Politics of Blame The Neo-Biafran Consciousness and Its Challenges
Today’s pro-Biafran agitators can claim a series of economic, political and, more recently, military onslaughts on its members, and that, consequentially, they ... Read More...
A Laughing Giant The Everlasting Humour of Chinua Achebe
In 1998, Chinua Achebe, already by this time the father of modern African literature by several accounts, introduced himself with a joke.