LagosPhoto is Five Years Old
Four years ago I interviewed Azu Nwagbogu, director of Lagos-based African Artists’ Foundation and the annual
Nigeria
Bam bam riddim
Hipster's Don't Dance's 'Top 5 World Carnival Tunes' for September 2014.
Shooting Lagos
In February of 2013, I made a hurried decision to head to Lagos, in an attempt
Africa Is a Country Radio: Episode #3
Episode 3 of Africa is a Country Radio is live on Groovalizacion and the AIAC Mixcloud
A brief history of Nigeria’s Super Eagles
There are no records of when the first official football match was played in Nigeria, but it started in the 1920s.
History Class with Cheta: Who is Herbert Macaulay
Too many people have forgotten about the one Naira coin, and the chap on that coin.
Wole Soyinka has opinions about social media
The novelist and Nobel Prize winner on why he avoids social media entirely, saying he doesn’t tweet, blog, or engage with what he calls today’s increasingly promiscuous digital platforms.
Jihad in Nigeria
Long before Boko Haram, talk of holy war in what became Nigeria was everywhere.
Nigeria’s Catch 22
American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.
Nollywood in Paris
For many white French, and including African immigrants in France, watching movies like 'Phone Swap,' 'Tango with Me,' 'Last Flight to Abuja' and 'Maami,' is an eye-opener.
The balkanization of Nigeria?
For those who want Nigeria to balkanize, try being a small, ineffectual African country.
Nigeria’s baby boom
Each year more babies are born in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.
What took the world so long to bring back our girls?
Western media tends to render female children invisible not just by a lack of coverage but also in the language we talk about them.
“Our hearts are bleeding. We are mothers.”
Last week, Guardian lead writer Anne Perkins wondered about the discrepancy between media coverage of the
The art of Victor Ehikhamenor
Victor Ehikhamenor’s images always work as a proliferation of forms. It’s the sort of proliferation that
What do Nigerians really think and know about homosexuality?
Nigeria's homophobia is at variance with Google analytics, which shows that Nigeria ranks in the top five in the world for searches for gay porn.
Who sold Nigeria to the British for £865k in 1899?
The Royal Niger Company and the founding of what became Nigeria.
News from Nigeria
The writer, who lives in the U.S., travels with her teenage son back to Nigeria just as the country proposes a new law to criminalize same sex love.
Nigeria, come get your president
Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent in Nigeria, gets the hashtag treatment - gets mocked on Twitter - for his government's inaction and policy uncertainty on a range of fronts.
A History of Nigeria’s Police Service
Asides from a few isolated cases, Nigeria's police force was never really an investigating force.