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The ‘Lion of Africa’ with Cat Claws Nigeria’s Image Problem

Fife OgundeMarch 20, 2020

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.

February/March 2020vol4-no2

This photo is for our piece on Nigeria and the US visa ban

A Wake-Up Call? The Recent Travel Restrictions on Nigerians

Zainab UsmanMarch 9, 2020

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.

Editors Picks: Independence DayFebruary/March 2020vol4-no2

Deceptions of Innovations Investigating the Claims of Big Tech

Aarshin KarandeMarch 6, 2020

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?

February/March 2020

This photo is for our piece on The Roots of Violence, Anglophones in Cameroon

The Roots of Violence Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis

P.J. KponyoMarch 2, 2020

As Anglophones became increasingly associated with the opposition, the discrimination they faced as a linguistic minority intensified over the ensuing decades.

CameroonFebruary/March 2020Nigeria

This photo is for our piece on Moving Beyond the Semantics, The Biafran Genocide Claim

Moving Beyond Semantics Examining the ‘Biafran Genocide’ Claim

Amarachi IhekeFebruary 21, 2020

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.

BiafraFebruary/March 2020vol4-no2

This photo is for our piece on Nigeria's Border Closure

Closed for Business Lessons from Nigeria's Border Closure

Abdulrasheed IsahFebruary 10, 2020

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.

February/March 2020vol4-no2

This photo is for our piece on The ‘Hidden Hand’ of Europe, Africans Migration

The ‘Hidden Hand’ of Europe Migration: Western Tears, African Victims

Edwin ChegeJanuary 31, 2020

While Europeans cry that their way of life is under threat, it is Africans who suffer under exploitative conditions on their continent.

December 19/January 20

This photo is for our piece on fieldwork in DRC

Where is ‘The Field’? Centring the Periphery in Kinshasa

Rachel StrohmDecember 9, 2019

'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.

December 19/January 20Fieldwork

This image is for our piece on Nigeria and the Digital Divide.

Uneven Playing Fields Nigeria and the Digital Divide

Osivue ItseumahNovember 29, 2019

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.

October/November 2019

This photo is for our piece on Language and the Ghost of Our Colonial Past.

Nollywords Lionheart, Language and the Ghost of Our Colonial Past

Ore OgunbiyiNovember 18, 2019

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.

Editors Picks: Independence DayOctober/November 2019

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