Set in the 19th-century kingdom of Okrika in the Niger delta, this Nollywood epic has a satisfying core of realpolitik and Kulturkampf that wouldn’t shame the likes of old-school classical-era …
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Chimamanda has returned to fiction after 12 years. But is the author stuck in the 2010s?
It’s summer reading time, and I have finally dived into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count, her highly anticipated return to fiction after a 12-year hiatus. This week, I give a …
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Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bándélé audiobook review – from enslaved teenager to celebrated preacher
Set in 19th-century Òsogùn in what is now Nigeria, Yorùbá Boy Running opens with 13-year-old Àjàyí reporting a premonition to his mother about dark days ahead. A week later, the …
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‘It’s not noise. It’s a message’: the misunderstood misfits of Nigeria’s underground rock scene
In the violet hush of a late-night doom scroll, I stumbled across her: a woman clad in lacquered leather and glinting chains, legs laced in harnesses. She stood mid-growl, clutching …
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Mayday, mayday! How will Nigeria and Nigerians survive now Kemi Badenoch has cut us adrift? | Nels Abbey
Paul Mooney, the late great African-American comedian and one of the most insightful yet hilarious intellectuals on matters of race, once quipped that every “racially aggrieved” person once deceased returns …
Gunmen have kidnapped more than 50 people in north-west Nigeria in a mass abduction, according to a private conflict monitoring report created for the UN and seen by Agence France-Presse …
Kemi Badenoch has said she no longer considers herself Nigerian and does not possess a Nigerian passport. The Conservative party leader, who was born in London, but grew up in …
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As England’s Lionesses roared, Nigeria’s queens of Africa made football history
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. On Sunday, depending on which hemisphere you live in, you are likely to have seen or heard about a squad of supremely talented …
Eyebrows were raised when Justine Madugu was appointed as the new Nigeria coach in September last year, having had no head coach experience in international football before taking on the …
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Meet Nigeria’s human flycatchers luring bloodsucking insects in the name of science
Every Monday and Tuesday morning, Bosede Oluwaokere, 48, wakes up at home in Ilorin city in west Nigeria, gets dressed and walks to a nearby stream. She sits beneath a …
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