It was past midnight in a sleepy suburb of Guangzhou in southern China, and the…
Tag: Nigeria
Biafra and other ghosts
In the 1980s, I lived in Ajegunle, a working-class area of Lagos famous for its…
Green White Green is a love letter to Nigeria’s youth
Abba Makama’s exuberant comedy Green White Green (2016) belongs to a new breed of Nigerian…
Fearless in Nigeria
For this weekend’s music interlude, we return with our Liner Notes series, which is simply,…
“Too deep for mere outrage”–on corruption in Nigeria
On May 27, 2015, on the eve of the inauguration of the current presidency of…
The President has left the country
Nigerians have been here before. In November 2009, President Umaru Musa Yar’adua left the country…
The crisis around Lake Chad
The world’s most extensive humanitarian crises is currently playing out in northeastern Nigeria and around…
Unusable Nigerians
Oloibiri is a town located a few kilometers away from the city of Port Harcourt…
Nigeria’s ‘brain drain’
Obinna Ukwuani, the MIT graduate and self-described “education entrepreneur” wasn’t born in Nigeria, but claims…
The Nigerians are coming
The prominence of Nigerian film on the 2016 film festival circuit represents something of a…