Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #3
Episode 3 of Africa is a Country Radio is live on Groovalizacion and the AIAC Mixcloud
Episode 3 of Africa is a Country Radio is live on Groovalizacion and the AIAC Mixcloud
There are no records of when the first official football match was played in Nigeria, but it started in the 1920s.
Too many people have forgotten about the one Naira coin, and the chap on that coin.
"... I do not tweet, blog or whatever goes on in this increasingly promiscuous medium"
Long before Boko Haram, talk of holy war in what became Nigeria was everywhere.
American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.
For many white French, and including African immigrants in France, watching movies like 'Phone Swap,' 'Tango with Me,' 'Last Flight to Abuja' and 'Maami,' is an eye-opener.
For those who want Nigeria to balkanize, try being a small, ineffectual African country.
Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.
Western media tends to render female children invisible not just by a lack of coverage but also in the language we talk about them.
Last week, Guardian lead writer Anne Perkins wondered about the discrepancy between media coverage of the
Victor Ehikhamenor’s images always work as a proliferation of forms. It’s the sort of proliferation that
Nigeria's homophobia is at variance with Google analytics, which shows that Nigeria ranks in the top five in the world for searches for gay porn.
The Royal Niger Company and the founding of what became Nigeria.
The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.
Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent in Nigeria, gets the hashtag treatment - gets mocked on Twitter - for his government's inaction and policy uncertainty on a range of fronts.
Asides from a few isolated cases, Nigeria's police force was never really an investigating force.
This is currently Boko Haram's structure: a cellular structure, and no centralized command, and seemingly no unity of purpose.
A public service as a response to Nigeria's removal of history from its school curriculum
Today's post is about economic systems, the World Bank and the IMF, and whether they have they helped Nigeria or not.