Nigerian popular music - Afrobeats - is storming the world’s stages. But it’s just the latest stage in a vibrant century of recorded music in the country.
Nigeria’s cultural diversity can enhance democracy.
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The government must take some of the blame for the radicalisation of non-state actors like the Indigenous People of Biafra.
The feeling of desertion by Nigeria’s federal government has not left the region that was defined as Biafra during the country’s civil war.
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Over the past 15 years there’s been a revival of young people - mostly Christians - participating in traditional masquerades, despite these being branded as pagan.
Leaders of the Aba women’s protest against a tyranical warrant chief in Nigeria in 1929.
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The petitions help us understand how Igbo women created spaces in a patriarchal society for active engagement with policies enforced by colonial rulers.
Director Kunle Afolayan, actress/singer Genevieve Nnaji and moderator Wendy Mitchell discuss the international rise of Nollywood at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Cameroon is facing daunting challenges and the president and his team must mobilise the country to find solutions.
Women carry goods across a makeshift bridge in the Ilaje slum in Lagos. Widening inequality is fuelling tensions across Nigeria.
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Protests are raising tensions in Africa’s most populous country, with agitators and federal troops clashing on the streets. But is Nigeria on the brink of another civil war?