Nigeria

Over twenty years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni compatriots were killed in Nigeria by the General Sani Abacha junta on account of their social activism.

Over the years, it has been identified in countless studies that one of the core reasons Nigeria has failed to develop to its full potential is pervasive corruption.

But theirs is not nostalgia for corruption per se but for a period in which, despite or because of corruption, the flow of illicit government funds created a sense of economic opportunity and prosperity.

In the light of almost two decades of horrendous governance under the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) administration, the call for change by a large section of Nigerians was expectedly overwhelmingly loud.

Towards the end of the first half this year,  arguments for restructuring of the Nigerian state reverberated across the entire nation.

In more ways than one, the death of General Sani Abacha robbed Nigerians of the opportunity of consigning the hot air over marginalization, more imagined than real, to the back seat of our national discourse.

Writing The Nigeria-Biafra War, edited by Toyin Falola and his doctoral student at the University of Texas, Austin, Ogechukwu Ezekwem (2016, Woodbridge, James Currey), is a highly anticipated volume about a

Since the public presentation of the book We Are All Biafrans and the intervention of a former vice president of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, who chaired the event and delivered a speech titled “Restructuring for Nigeria’s national unity” – a speech I recom

Ikpa oke ani, that is mapping out the boundaries and ownership of lands, is an important function in Igbo society. In the process of doing this, a lot of factors are taken into consideration.

1. Sunday 12 June 2016: Chronicle of bursts, booms, flashes, murders: islamist terrorist outrage in the United States ravages night club in Orlando, Florida, beginning at about 2am, murdering 49 clubgoers and wounding scores and scores and scores – several critic