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On Onaiyekan—When Heaven Becomes Corruption’s Laundromat
Nigeria is perhaps the only country where a politician may steal enough money to build three universities, donate twenty bags of rice to a...
Philo, Tersoo, Ibee: We Are All Abincin Gara
It has been one hell of a season.
The kind in which the telephone rings and your heart begins negotiating with God before you answer....
Ghost Agencies, Short Memories, and Ancestral Shame
To produce one living Nigerian today, biology required a spectacular ancestral relay race. Two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so forth, doubling backward...
The forgotten architecture of community justice
There is an old saying across many African communities: when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. In Northeast Nigeria, however, another truth quietly...
The light beyond Borno’s longest night
Borno was the destination, but Borno was also the question.
For three days, inside a room filled with district heads, local chiefs, government stakeholders, human-rights...
