If Godswill Akpabio Is the Answer, What Was the Question? By Lawson Akhigbe

🧠💥 A Satirical Investigation into Nigeria’s Most Elastic Politician Have you ever played the game where someone shouts an answer, and you have to guess the question? Well, in Nigerian politics, one name keeps popping up as the answer to almost everything. That name is Godswill Akpabio – Senate President, former governor, minister, and now …

Black women’s hair products are killing us. Why isn’t more being done? By Tayo Bero

The hair, the hair, look up, it’s the hair Black women who use lye-based hair relaxers at least seven times a year for 15 or more years have a 30% increased risk of breast cancer A new study reveals what some scientists and researchers have suspected for years – that frequent and long-term use of lye-based hair …

Moral Economies of Corruption by Pierce, Steven

(Photograph by Drum Photographer ©BAHA) - AKG Images AKG2475462 Corruption in the Western Region " In 1962 tensions had emerged between Awolowo and his deputy, S. L. Akintola, who had succeeded him as Premier of the west when Awolowo moved to the federal parliament. Akintola complained that Awolowo was continuing to attempt to govern the …

Trump has fanned the flames of divisive politics around the world, says Sadiq Khan by Peter Walker

Exclusive: London mayor says US president has ‘perhaps done the most’ to encourage far right Donald Trump will arrive in the UK tonight to a barrage of criticism from Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, who has accused the US president of doing more than anyone else to encourage the intolerant far right across the …

The New Face of Africa South of the Sahara by John Hughes (1961)

Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s Governor General - AKG Images AKG924546 Nigeria: A Touch of Texas"Until a year or two before independence, politics were fought largely on a regional basis, but this was while Britain exercised over-all control. With the prospect of Britain's withdrawal, Nigerian politicians recognized that the federal government would become a powerful factor …