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Explainers, analyses, and essays on government policies, and political trends and movements around the continent

In Nigeria, Shame is the Substance of Things Hoped For

What shall it profit a people to lack shame?  What does it really profit a nation of over 180 million people to consistently platform and promote individuals with an addiction to humiliation? There comes a time when one must sit back, rest their hands on their head, exhale, and declare that it all doesn’t make […]

John Eriomala

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3 months ago

In Nigeria, Shame is the Substance of Things Hoped For

Demilade Akingbe Needs A TikTok Support Group

Over the last couple of years, Demilade Akingbe has created content around food and culture, which captures the soul of Lagos. This has helped her make the transition into a full-time content creator whose impact has steadily compounded. This forms the backdrop of her feature on Obasanjo’s Internet. Who are you? What do you do?  […]

Oluwamayowa Idowu

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4 months ago

Demilade Akingbe Needs A TikTok Support Group

Why are Africans Not Watching African Cinema?

Six decades later, African cinema is still in its infancy when it comes to distribution and industry structures. Pioneering African filmmakers, including Ousmane Sembène, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Ola Balogun, Thérèse Bella Mbida, Safi Faye, and others, despite the financial and structural challenges they faced, started making artistically ambitious and politically conscious narratives that will be […]

Seyi Lasisi

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4 months ago

Why are Africans Not Watching African Cinema?

The Rising Violence Against Opposition and the Growing Threat to Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections

The build-up to the 1964 general election and the election itself were some of the infamous moments in Nigeria’s political history. As the election loomed, the mating dance between the major parties engendered new alliances. Disagreements between the Northern People’s Congress (NPC)  and the National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), especially over the 1962/1963 census, […]

Favour Bamijoko

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4 months ago

The Rising Violence Against Opposition and the Growing Threat to Nigeria’s 2027 General Elections
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