Summer in the city: A Igoni Barrett on a rainy bus ride in Lagos By A Igoni Barrett
It had been raining all day the way an old goat pees, in fits and starts, with bleats of sunshine in between. This was a weekday in July 2007, the magical year I moved to Lagos, and only a few months into the nine-to-five that lured me over. The excitement of waking up every day …
Donald’s Plot Against America by Mary L. Trump
Now, he and his GOP enablers are peddling the Second Big Lie: that January 6 was just legitimate protest. It’s the crucial ingredient in convincing America to return them—and him—to power. I felt as though I had stumbled across a crime scene so violent that I couldn’t process it, let alone synthesize the images in …
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A short video that provides the fuller picture of the Atlantic slave trade by David Allen Green
One of the projects on which I am working is a history of the law of slavery in practice. You may think that you know the broad outlines of the story of slavery – at least in respect of the Atlantic slave trade. But this short video – for which both script and animation are …
U.S. Arrest Warrant Exposes Police Scandal in Nigeria by John Campbell
The issuing of an arrest warrant by U.S. officials for a prominent Nigerian policeman has exposed a corruption scandal in Nigeria that is being met with mixed reactions. Instagram influencer and cyber criminal Ramon Abbas, better known as "Hushpuppi," poses in a photo posted to his Instagram page on July 1, 2019. hushpuppi/Instagram The charismatic head …
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