The ‘Lion of Africa’ with Cat Claws Nigeria’s Image Problem
After 60 years of independence, Nigeria has failed to establish significant political leverage on the global scene and is not the African superpower many tout it to be.
International Affairs
A Wake-up Call? The Recent Travel Restrictions on Nigerians
It will be a grave mistake to treat Nigeria’s recent US visa ban as a one-off event, rather than a larger issue of limited leverage in a rapidly changing world that we seem ill-prepared to navigate.
Deceptions of Innovations Investigating the Claims of Big Tech
The grand premise of innovation is that everyone benefits from it: technology not only yields great opportunity; it constructs great equality. The image of innovation is a redemptive one—but for whom?
The Roots of Violence Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis
As Anglophones became increasingly associated with the opposition, the discrimination they faced as a linguistic minority intensified over the ensuing decades.
Moving beyond Semantics Examining the ‘Biafran Genocide’ Claim
Having accomplished a plethora of historical firsts, observations from the Nigeria-Biafra conflict can act as important references to better understand the evolving dynamics of warfare.
Closed for Business Lessons from Nigeria's Border Closure
Although Nigeria closed its border by exploiting loopholes in the ECOWAS rulebook (by claiming exemptions to justify its actions), the unilateralist, parochial border closure will negate the possibility of cooperation or forging stronger economic ties in the future.
The ‘Hidden Hand’ of Europe Migration: Western Tears, African Victims
While Europeans cry that their way of life is under threat, it is Africans who suffer under exploitative conditions on their continent.
Where is ‘The Field’? Centring the Periphery in Kinshasa
'The field' is an interesting concept. It only makes sense if we understand that there is also another place which is 'not-the-field'. But the common use of 'the field' suggests that it is shorthand for power relations as well as geography.
Uneven Playing Fields Nigeria and the Digital Divide
For a country already suffering from grave socio-economic inequalities, harnessing technology may not translate positively for Nigeria’s future if active steps are not taken to address the digital divide.
Nollywords Lionheart, Language and the Ghost of Our Colonial Past
Nollywood gives Nigerian creatives room to take a language that we may not have chosen and use it to tell our stories in the way that we choose.