Most people know that “national unity” is only invoked as a rhetorical cudgel to squelch dissent.
Missionary schools that were taken over by the government are still essentially public schools. No more, no less.
We need to have an honest national conversation about why the hijab triggers such extreme bitterness and hostility in some Nigerian Christians.
When newspapers go from not holding the power to account to being paid to attack those who do, they are in the throes of a horrifying professional death.
President Biden appreciates Nigerians but has nothing but stone-cold disdain for the inert, isolated mannequin in Aso Rock that pretends to be Nigeria’s “president.”
The contributions that African Americans have made to global English also owe debts to the enduring influences of their (West) African origins.
Thousands of personal names the Gullah people bear are similar to many names people in west and central Africa still bear.
The most shocking surprise for us was that AncestryDNA’s database matched us with hundreds of cousins who turned out to be mostly Black Americans.
From the 1990s, the Mende people in Sierra Leone and the Gullah people in the US have established formal linkages.
Where governments used to seize and burn copies of newspapers that published critical stories, they now tell telecommunication companies to block the URLs of news websites.
