• Caren Holmes

On the United Kingdom’s attempts to finance the construction of large-scale prison facilities in former colonies, to where it wants to deport undocumented migrants.

• Charles Etubiebi

A Nigerian play and its leading man confront western misrepresentations.

• Norbert Odero

For immigrants—especially African and black immigrants to Western countries—the question of home is complex.

• Noah Tsika

After having a heart attack, a white American falls in love with his Nigerian nurse in the CBS TV sitcom, Bob Hearts Abishola. It is also about Nigerian-Americans’ visibility on mainstream US television.

• Modupeola Oyebolu

The Nigerian-American writer, Tope Folarin, wrestles with blackness and black immigrant identity in his new novel.

• Daivi Rodima-Taylor
• Mustapha H. Kurfi
• Fallou Ngom

Ajami is the centuries-old practice in West Africa of writing other languages using the modified Arabic script. It is also more widely dispersed than we give it credit for.

• Nnamdi Awa Kalu

The midfielder Augustine "Jay Jay" Okocha is arguably one of Nigeria's best men's football players ever. It is his birthday today, August 14th.

• Lindsey Green-Simms

A new documentary film aims to promote awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ in a country where living openly as a gay woman is often a silent and secret struggle.

• Daniel Okechukwu

Africa is apparently hot in Hollywood, but can Hollywood be trusted with African stories?

• Emilie Guitard
• Clémentine Chazal

What does Emmanuel Macron's visit to Fela Kuti's New Afrika Shrine say about what happened to Fela Kuti's legacy in Nigeria.

• Omolade Adunbi

The last 20 years of liberal democracy in Nigeria have been marred by crises. The next election should be the Left's target.

• Noah Tsika

Director Dare Olaitan’s Knock Out Blessing (2018), is nothing less than a meditation on rape culture.

• Sa’eed Husaini

While Nigeria's class divide is not between rich whites and poor blacks, it still has a lot in common with postapartheid South Africa.

• Vivian Chenxue Lu

The erratic electricity supply in Nigeria is a metaphor for life there.

• Panashe Chigumadzi

On writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics.

• Ọláolúwa Òní

Everyday Lagos and Lagosians fill the pages of Leye Adenle's thrillers, but fail to fill some holes in the plots.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Omoyele Sowore was the presidential hope of Nigeria's more active left. He fared abysmally. What next for progressive electoral politics in Nigeria?

• Serubiri Moses

Bisi Silva's constant movement was a form of unlearning; in her awareness of artists and cultural production on the African continent.

• Olutimehin Adegbeye

In a heteronormative society like Nigeria, men are entitled to sex with any and all women.

• Titilope F. Ajayi

On xenophobia against Nigerians in Ghana.