• Amatesiro Dore

"It was a lifetime performance of lies and false living. I played the role of a homophobic straight guy while I craved to hold the hands of a guy. I worshipped at the temple of homophobes while I prayed for a man to call my own."

• Omolade Adunbi

Igbo nationalist groups have the right to self-determine whether they want to be part of Nigeria or form their own independent republic.

• Shayera Dark

If being Nigerian meant anything, the presidency wouldn’t be rotated every eight years between the North and South or along tribal lines.

• Vivian Chenxue Lu

How does rhetoric of a 1960’s failed secessionist state in Nigeria flow into a sleepy industrial city in southern China, amongst young Nigerian merchants, none of whom lived through the war themselves?

• Akin Adeṣọkan

After nearly fifty years, the real impact of the Biafran war on Nigeria remains to be measured, free from political gamesmanship.

• Noah Tsika

The film depicts the mutually transformative friendship of three “ethnically different” Nigerian young men in break with their elders' attitudes.

• Villy

In this installment of our "Liner Notes," the Nigerian musician, Villy, writes about his band's EP, "Humananimals."

• Akin Adeṣọkan

Anticorruption activist, Chuma Nwokolo, reflects on the pervasive nature of official corruption in Nigeria.

• Brandon Kendhammer

What Nigerians know about President Muhammadu Buhari’s health (he's been in London for more than one month) comes from leaks and anonymous sources.

• Victor Adetula
• Tone Sommerfelt
• Camilla Houeland

The world's most extensive humanitarian crises is currently playing out in northeastern Nigeria and around Lake Chad.

• Omolade Adunbi

• Noah Tsika

The tensions between young Nigerians eager to flee their country for a better life in the United States and those already exposed to US culture.

• Noah Tsika

Nigerian cinema is finally being embraced outside Nollywood for its diversity and capacity to adapt to dramatic technological and infrastructural shifts.

• Olukayode Alao

For Nigeria, the World Bank reported that as of 2015, 48% of the total population (estimated at more than 180 million) reside in urban centers.

• Wendy Willems

• Afolabi Opanubi

• Liz Timbs

The Nsibidi Institute Memory Project attempts to use digital forums to preserve popular, everyday memories of Nigeria.

• Olugbenga Adelekan

Is diasporan a word? It is now. You cannot understand what it is to be Nigerian, or Kenyan or South African now, without factoring in the diaspora.

• Remi Onabanjo

What would an alternative visual vocabulary through which to comprehend Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, look like?

• Benjamin Lebrave

It is rare in much of Africa to see a festival line-up of both established and up and coming artists performing with a full band.