Forged by colonial lines that ignored its people, Nigeria now strains under insurgency, corruption, and oil politics as the military grinds on multiple fronts and voices like Ojy Okpe refuse to look ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Nigeria ditched its indigenous national anthem in May and ...

For more than six decades, “independent” Nigeria has endured governance failure, driven by a political class that inherited a state without embracing stewardship. Frantz Fanon foresaw this tragedy ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Okey Ndibe talked about how Nigeria was created by the British as a colony and how the legacy of colonialism affects the cohesiveness of the ...

In the early 1950s, as Nigeria approached independence from Great Britain, a vibrant literary culture developed in the vast and lively market of Onitsha, a city on the eastern bank of the Niger River.

Germany has returned 22 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria as part of a larger effort by Western nations to seek reparation of stolen artifacts from Africa. The Benin Bronzes are sculptures and plaques looted ...

Nigeria rsquo;s political history is deeply intertwined with religious identity . Christianity and Islam represented in part ...

Introduction: Firearms in twentieth-century colonial Africa -- "This destructive implement of European ingenuity": firearms, the Atlantic world, and technology transfer in precolonial Nigeria -- All ...

Policies that impose homophobic or transphobic laws sometimes do so in the name of anti-colonialism, presenting gender and ...

In Lagos’ exclusive enclaves, colonial-era bungalows are giving way to glass towers along the waterfront. In Abuja, sprawling ...