At 90, we cannot but celebrate Uncle Sam as a rare gift to journalism as a profession and Nigeria as a nation.

British colonial rule in Nigeria lasted for decades, shaping the country’s political, economic, and social structures. Today, several places across Nigeria still bear the marks of this era ...

While I’m teaching my politics of policing class in Philadelphia, I often suggest that the United States can learn lessons about policing by studying other countries through a comparative lens.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stated that the controversial tax reform bills are aimed at eliminating the influence of colonial rule on Nigeria’s economy. This comes amid the ongoing ...

Celebrated Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose sharp criticisms of post-independence elites led to his ...

They circulated widely through the Onitsha market and the pamphlet style spread to market centers across Nigeria, which gained independence in 1960 after nearly a century under British colonial rule. ...

Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Nigeria ditched its indigenous national anthem in May and restored the old colonial one. The decision by the country’s National Assembly to revive a song written ...

It is safe to say acephalous village societies were the commonest political culture in pre-colonial Nigeria. In some of the monarchies the kings were regarded as divine and they or dead ones ...

Post-colonial Nigeria and 21st-century America are separated by vast dimensions of history. But this artwork is an invitation to find broader shared values. “The exhibition represents an ...

The post-colonial cultural development With independence in Nigeria came a rising tide of expectations. People wanted increased prices for their primary produce like cocoa, groundnuts, palm kernel ...

Cannes: Akinola Davies Jr.'s semi-autobiographical feature debut stars Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù as an absent father who tries to set a good example for his sons as their country burns around them.

Nigeria formally requested the return of hundreds ... often by force, during the colonial era.