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After the buzz of a rare third party candidate and a chaos of a cash crisis, Nigerians chose continuity. The election process, which was supposed to be smoother this year because of technology, was anything but. Opposition parties dispute the outcome, with three of them having boycotted the process to collate votes because of technical glitches and …

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A party observer argued with police officers as a polling station opened late during Nigeria’s election on Saturday.Michele Spatari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Imagine standing patiently in line, waiting to vote, and suddenly men with guns arrive on motorcycles and start shooting. Imagine men dashing into your polling unit, violently seizing ballot boxes and taking …

Continue reading "My Country is in a Fragile Place by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"

Palestinians clean a burned shop a day after the clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in Huwara, West Bank, on Monday. (Kobi Wolf for The Washington Post/FTWP) When confronted by scenes of bloodshed and destruction in Israel and the occupied territories, there’s a tendency to talk of “the cycle of violence.” In this view, the entrenched enmities …

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Colourful ceremony marks artefacts’ homecoming more than a century after they were pillaged by British troops Two Benin bronzes were returned on Saturday to a traditional palace in Nigeria, more than a century after they were pillaged by British troops, raising hopes that thousands more artefacts could finally be returned to their ancestral home. The artefacts, …

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IMAGE SOURCE, GRAHAM LACDAO A leading Nigerian artist tells writer Molara Woods why his new installation at London's St Paul's Cathedral is important, as the world-famous building re-evaluates its memorials to historical figures including the admiral who led the campaign that resulted in the looting of the Kingdom of Benin. A leading Nigerian artist tells …

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