Who the taxi strike affected, where and how shows the violent reality of the city’s spatial injustice.
With three world records to her name, Faith Kipyegon is competing for two gold medals at the World Athletics Championships.
Taffy Theman and Bustop TV are YouTubers who use comedy to criticise the ruling elite.
The word shows that language isn’t static, it evolves to reflect developments in a society.
A Spell of Good Things powerfully explores polygamy, patriarchy, political corruption and poverty.
Writers have challenged oppression, exposed social injustices and advocated for political change.
Afrofuturism, a mix of science fiction, magic realism and liberation politics, has shaped some hip-hop artists’ work for decades.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
Nigeria is deeply polarised along ethnic, religious, cultural and political lines – and violence is never far from the surface.
African teams take the football world cup by storm.
A technique called portable X-ray fluorescence has helped Egyptologists identify changes and adjustments to details of tomb decoration that are invisible to the human eye.
Nigeria’s writer and professor of drama, Kole Omotoso, died on 19 July 2023 aged 80.
Danfo drivers are often intolerant, bringing down the image of Lagos as a destination.
The world’s largest women’s sporting event is being hosted in Africa for the first time.
South Africa is one of four African countries participating in the tournament, which begins on 28 July.
Nigeria leads in the rankings of the four African teams. Two others are making debut World Cup appearances and there’s a storm cloud over South Africa.
A new book focuses on the politics of road transport, the everyday corruption and the hard-living world of transport workers in Lagos, Nigeria.
A World in Common is a European exhibition with African content, rather than a space that invites conversations and engagement that go beyond the images themselves.
Queer theory tells us that people’s identities are complex. If all research subjects are approached this way, we can understand their responses more fully.
More than being the social problem they are often made out to be, gangs are an indication of larger problems present in their societies.
