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Nigeria

  • #EndSARSNigeriaPoliticsRadical Activism in Africa

    Africa’s revolution will be tweeted…if activists can harness the opportunity

    By Ayo Sogunro
    October 13, 2021
    With the right strategic thinking, social media can help cultivate the kind of pan-African solidarity that would’ve excited the likes of Nkrumah.  This article ...
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  • At an #EndSARS protest in 2020 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Tope. A Asokere on Unsplash
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    Nigeria’s war on tech

    By Chukwudi B. Ukonne
    October 6, 2021
    The tech industry is one of Nigeria’s fastest growing, but is independent of the state patronage system and therefore must be eliminated. The Nigerian ...
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    Nigeria at 61: Gender equality the unfinished business of our generation

    By Toyin Ojora Saraki, Comfort Lamptey, Roopa Dahtt, Olabukunola "Buky" Williams & Adepeju Adeniran
    October 1, 2021
    We can no longer leave out the once invisible but now irrefutable powerhouses that are the women of the Nigerian story. 61 years after ...
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    Nigeria: The infamous 1996 Pfizer trial driving anti-vax feelings today

    By Mahdi Garba & Modupe Abidakun
    September 10, 2021
    For those affected by the devastating drug trial, vaccine hesitancy is not only driven by conspiracy theories or mistrust but lived experience. A version ...
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    The Thief Cannot Prescribe: On “Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes”

    By Nii Ayikwei Parkes
    July 22, 2021
    Phillips’s book is a well-written feat of archival research, but attempts to justify plunder while debating if the Benin Bronzes should be returned.  Early in ...
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    Think African Podcast Ep 6: Who is the law for?

    By Think African
    July 16, 2021
    African Arguments is delighted to partner with the Think African podcast series, created by Sound Africa in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cape Town. Think African examines the ...
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  • Editor's PicksNigeriaSociety

    “We are getting into cars with strangers”

    By Ope Adetayo
    May 5, 2021
    Ride-hailing apps in Nigeria have provided technical fixes and education to stop male drivers harassing female passengers, but will it change anything? On a ...
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  • #EndSARSEditor's PicksNigeriaPolitics

    #EndSARS: A movement finding healing six months after a massacre

    By Zainab Onuh-Yahaya
    April 22, 2021
    “We asked to not be killed and we got killed for it.” In early October 2020, thousands of young Nigerians took to the streets ...
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  • Shell. An oil spill in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Credit: Luka Tomac/Friends of the Earth International.
    Climate crisisNigeriaSocietyTop story

    Okpabi v Shell: The era of unbridled corporate impunity drawing to a close

    By Daniel Leader
    March 18, 2021
    For communities around the world who have been powerless to hold abusive corporations to account, some recent court judgments provide real hope. On 12 ...
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  • In a recent worldwide survey, Nigerians were most likely to use or own cryptocurrencies. Credit: KC Nwakalor for USAID / Digital Development Communications
    EconomyNigeriaTop story

    Why Nigeria’s crypto crackdown is misguided

    By Abubakar Popoola
    March 3, 2021
    Cryptocurrency doesn’t have to be a problem. Neither does the Central Bank. Catching many people by surprise on 5 February, the Central Bank of ...
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