‘There is nothing here’: the island left behind by Lagos’s economic boom
For the estimated 2,000 residents of Refuge Island life sometimes feels like that of a refugee. A dozen communities live on the island, which lies in a lagoon on the…
For the estimated 2,000 residents of Refuge Island life sometimes feels like that of a refugee. A dozen communities live on the island, which lies in a lagoon on the…
In the sleepy Nigerian port town of Koko, the reminder of a forgotten invasion by the British more than a century ago has itself been forgotten. A statue of Nanna…
In a hospital bed fearing his death was imminent, English teacher Othuke Ominiabohs thought ruefully of his four unpublished novels. “My biggest regret was I was going to die, and…
Multiple people were injured on a United Airlines flight heading from Lagos, Nigeria, to Washington DC last week. In a statement released on Friday, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria…
In a modest house on a red dirt road in Ota in Ogun state, Adijat Adejumo, a 39-year-old auxiliary nurse, runs a small chemist shop. She treats common illnesses such…
Shortly after his 18th birthday, Chukwuebuka Ibeh embarked on his first trip outside his home city of Port Harcourt. He drove more than eight hours north to Lagos for a…
Every year, the world loses some of its 7,000 languages. Parents stop speaking them to their children, words are forgotten and communities lose the ability to read their own scripts.…
From a noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European Yorùbá cultural centre in Lagos, Nigeria, to the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, 2024 was a big year for museums opening in…
At the top of the Ado-Awaye hills lies a lake suspended 433 metres above sea level. Local people say the lake is named Iyake (Yoruba for “crying woman”) after a…
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