Richard Ali

Author: Richard Ali

Richard Ali is a Nigerian lawyer and author of City of Memories (Parresia Books 2013). He is a member of Nairobi-based Jalada Africa and sits on the board of the Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation (Uganda). He tweets at @richardalijos.

Living in Translation Nigeria West

By Richard Ali
May 6, 2019
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For Naija, We Dey Kampe

Adaptable, jazz-like and subversive. How Pidgin English, the language of Fela Kuti, turns competitors into comrades in Nigeria. This is the second article in the seven-part ...

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Nigeria Society

By Richard Ali
May 10, 2017
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Sanusi II: Nigeria’s inheritor of tradition and unlikely would-be reformer

The traditional ruler’s criticism of conservative thinking in northern Nigeria has kicked off a much-needed storm of controversy. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has often been a polarising figure ...

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