Beninese women attend a “voodoo” festival.
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In some West African communities, age and magico-religious beliefs have a huge role to play in a woman’s independence.
Okwui Enwezor.
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Curator Okwui Enwezor, who has died aged 55, will be remembered for the hugely generative legacy of everything he has achieved.
Building collapses in Lagos have become common in recent years.
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Lagos has all the appropriate laws but it needs to adopt the right procedures and see them through.
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Nigeria has the world’s highest number of out-of-school children and over 60 million of its citizens are illiterate. Here’s what the country can do to improve its education sector.
The average woman in Niger has over seven children – nearly triple the average across developing countries.
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Research shows that unrest, even terrorism, can erupt in poor countries with a surplus of young people and not enough jobs. Can Niger, a once-peaceful sub-Saharan African nation, handle its baby boom?
President Muhammadu Buhari (L) and his running mate, vice president Yemi Osinbajo (R) attend a campaign rally in Akure, Nigeria on February 5, 2019.
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South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria … the story seems to be the same.
In one year alone 380,000 domestic applicants didn’t get a university place in Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s higher education system is the biggest on the continent but it lags behind on research output.
Chibok schoolgirls freed from Boko Haram captivity shown in Abuja, Nigeria in 2017.
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Four young women who escaped Boko Haram during the 2014 Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping are now studying in the US. Their professor recounts a recent breakthrough in their quest to go to college.
A woman weaves cane sticks to produce baskets in the Maryland community in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria.
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Nigeria, like many emerging countries, needs to educate its women at the same rate it does its men to enhance entrepreneurship.
Nigerians celebrate the announcement of Muhammadu Buhari’s victory. But can he deliver jobs this time round?
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Nigeria’s high unemployment rate has created a bloated and unproductive informal sector.
An artist’s impression of the failed Modderfontein smart city in Johannesburg.
What a failed megacity project in Johannesburg says about similar ambitious ideas across the continent.
Muhammadu Buhari: staying put at Aso Rock.
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Investors favoured Muhammadu Buhari’s opponent, Atiku Abubakar. So what are the Nigerian president’s economic priorities?
Nigerians lined up to cast their ballots in the presidential elections in Abuja.
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After a long history of botched elections, Nigerians are hopeful that the 2019 poll results will be more credible.
Nigeria was quick to respond and control the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
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Nigeria’s health systems are overwhelmed and incapable of sustaining high quality disease surveillance, prevention, control and response.
The race is on to find a new head of the World Bank following Jim Yong Kim’s resignation.
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The power dynamics in the World Bank have changed dramatically.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari holding a flag during a recent campaign rally. He is running for a second term in office.
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This is not the first time a Nigerian poll has been postponed but it is certainly the most dramatic.
Presidential Candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari (L) and his running mate, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (R) attend a campaign rally.
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Buhari’s handling of the economy has been somewhere between poor and appalling. But the same could be said of past administrations.
Fela Kuti’s Mr Follow Follow is the b-side of his album, Zombie.
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Cultural icons like Achebe, Fela and Saro-Wiwa were among those who highlighted Nigeria’s failings.
Biafran refugees flee federal Nigerian troops on a road near Ogbaku, Nigeria in this 1968 photo. Between one and three million people are estimated to have died.
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Nigerian poets and novelists have compared the Igbo massacres in the 60s to the Holocaust as a way to drive international attention to the atrocities.
Nigerian police patrol a after a bomb blast in Kaduna.
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Kaduna State in Nigeria has been the scene of ethnic and religious violence for years and there seems to be no end in sight.