• 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.

• Bolaji Kekere-Ekun
• Rafeeat Aliyu

Two new Nigerian films explore the world of traditional worship in Nigeria

• Melchisedek Chétima
• Scott MacEachern
• Walter van Beek

Why do people on the border between Nigeria and northern Cameroon refer to Boko Haram as slave holders?

• Camilla Houeland

Negotiations for a minimum wage put Nigeria's trade unions at the front of poor people's struggles.

• Omolade Adunbi

Nigeria's former finance minister wrote a book about her time in government. It is a thinly veiled attempt to clean up her image.

• Ainehi Edoro

A critical look at some of the problematic assumptions that defined African literature during the decades of its inception.

• Sa’eed Husaini

What has the world's Moët drinking capital and a world leader in global indices of private jet ownership to do with left politics?

• Olutimehin Adegbeye

Try being a single woman in Nigeria.

• Ebenezer Obadare

Christian Pentecostalism has crept to the center of public life in Nigeria.

• David Edwards

The planned global Education Outcomes Fund—the UN seems onboard—would create markets for “non-state” providers while guaranteeing profits for private investors that purchase “impact bonds.”

• Fareeda Abdulkareem

The feature film, 'Kasala,' feels like a documentary film about the Nigerian condition and appeals to anyone who has ever been poor.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

Everyone but the Chibok girls--subjects of #BringBackOurGirls--and their families in Nigeria have moved on, but history does not march on for the victims.

• Erin Haney
• Shravan Vidyarthi

Priya Ramrakha was one of the most prolific photographers of Africa’s independence movements in the 1950s and 1960s. This highlights his impact.

• Damola Durosomo

Focusing on sports allegiance to Nigeria, offered a break from pondering over all of its social ills.

• Ron Krabill
• Danny Hoffman

Watching the World Cup with a young Nigerian professional footballer in Seattle, U.S.