If the nation continues on its current, sclerotic trajectory, 60 years from today generations of children will learn to yell “Up NEPA!” like the ones before them.
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Nigeria's covid vaccination drive needs more than radio jingles and text messages from the country's public health agency to reach its goal of immunising 80 million citizens.
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“The government is next. We’re coming for them soon if they don’t stop this nonsense.”
Protesters demand end to police malfeasance and brutality in Nigeria.
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Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi on the goals of her social enterprise, hindrances imposed by Nigeria's justice system, and her dream of creating a violent-free world for women, children and men.
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“The day Oguta fell, my family was the last to leave our village because we were waiting for my uncle who had gone to get fuel for the car. There was a lot of gunshot and shelling. We were scared, especially my father. It’s not something one should experience twice.”
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Okey Ndibe’s memoir derives its comical title from a string of advice an uncle had given Ndibe on the eve of his maiden voyage to America. “And the first thing to remember is this: Never look an American in the eye… They take it as an insult,” the uncle intones. “If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.”
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Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s Bailey’s-shortlisted, debut novel Stay With Me is an engaging story about the pressures a childless couple encounters in contemporary Nigeria, where children—more than love—are often deemed the centripetal force of a marriage.
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“The window was one of many, the town was one. It was the only one, the one I left behind,” reads the epigraph in Teju Cole’s debut novel Every Day is for the Thief. Written like a travel diary, the story pieces together the unnamed narrator’s perception of Lagos after a long absence.
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