• Joeva Rock
• Rachel Schurman

Plutôt que de pallier l’insécurité alimentaire, les cultures génétiquement modifiées risquent de rendre les agriculteurs et les scientifiques africains plus, et non moins, dépendants des marchés mondiaux.

• Emeka Joseph Nwankwo

Pressure on African writers to avoid the criticism of poverty porn limits the imagination of the writer and the ability to speak truth to power.

• Ini Dele-Adedeji
• Ella Jeffreys

The irony of preaching social distancing to those living in close urban dwellings in Lagos exposes the crass nature of class disparities in Nigeria.

• Ope Adetayo

The hashtag movement #WeAreTired highlights that rape is an epidemic in Nigeria, but nobody in power wants to tackle it.

• Kangsen Feka Wakai

With a new book, Chimurenga resurrects Festac, the blackest and largest ever gathering of artists from Africa and its diaspora in 1977 in Lagos, Nigeria.

• Omolade Adunbi

Lessons for Americans in the age of Black Lives Matter, from the Niger Delta’s long struggle for environmental justice.

• Tammy Wilks
• Doseline Kiguru

The Nigerian scholar and poet, Harry Garuba, who died in February 2020, was a key figure in African Studies and teaching literature in South Africa.

• Elsa Rousset

The destruction of Tarkwa Bay in Lagos and the battle over what makes a city and who belongs in it.

• Vivian Chenxue Lu

Jumoke Verissimo’s first novel, A Small Silence, explores the psychic afterlives of protest in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.

• Dami Adebayo

The legacy of Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who died from COVID-19, helps us understand how powerful and yet constrained Nigeria's Presidency is.

• moshood

Among other notable achievements, Wole Soyinka made political music. In 1983, he even released an album.

• Serawit Bekele Debele

A documentary film reclaims precolonial histories and spiritualities between Nigeria and Venezuela.

• Theo Borgvin-Weiss

Pentecostalism in Nigeria preaches that prayer, not political action, is the solution to COVID-19.

• Vincent Foucher

The French philosopher and TV personality favors spectacle over analysis. The result: we don't make sense of political violence in Nigeria.

• Moses E. Ochonu

What alternative pathways are available towards accountable governance in Nigeria?

• Dave Pier

Fela Kuti’s friend, Carlos Moore, the black Cuban emigre writer, is the subject of a film about their at times difficult relationship. The result is complex.

• Sakiru Adebayo

Nigerians’ anger and frustration are deservedly directed to their government. But few point to the special breed of Nigerians: the "Crazy Rich Nigerians."

• Matthew H. Brown

Among the many legacies of Teju Olaniyan’s teaching and writing would be a project to not only speak in the ideological name of Africa, but to redistribute the power of speaking in that name.

• Daniel Okechukwu

Filmmaker Akin Omotoso shows the Lagos that pushes the sane to insanity, the meek to thuggery and the lawful to anarchy.

• Kechi Nomu

In Nigeria, survivors of sexual violence and workplace sexual harassment know that facts are not enough.