“Mum, I have a well-paying job and my own apartment, so I’m as settled as can be. Whenever and wherever I find love, I’ll take it. That said, I have no plans of rushing into something just to fulfil yours or anyone else’s vision, especially if that vision requires my moving to Africa. I know you don’t want to hear this, but I’m more British than I am Nigerian. My home is Manchester; it’s where I feel most alive.”
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What happens when you go to bed a black man and wake up white? That's the question A. Igoni Barrett's novel Black Ass answers with a blend of sharp humor and keen intelligence.
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She Called Me Woman is a portrait of 25 queer Nigerian women. Their anonymised, first-person accounts range from family dynamics to childhood memories to first sexual encounters. With the exception of two narrators, the women reflect on what it’s like living as a queer person in Nigeria.
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Twenty have been confirmed dead after a residential building housing a school collapsed Wednesday morning in Lagos. Majority of the causalities were children.
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With general elections less than a month away, Nigeria held a much-awaited presidential debate on 19 January. Voters around the country tuned in for two hours on Saturday evening to hear what their next president had to say about governing Africa’s most populous nation.
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Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world, but ascertaining the percentage of those with learning disabilities is next to impossible as official data is nonexistent. As such, educational schemes barely address their needs, pushing them further to the margins of society.
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Ten years after Nigeria ratified the UN Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities, a disability bill continues to ping pong between the legislative and executive arms of government. Frustrated by the lack of progress, disability activists, some of whom are disabled themselves, are calling for their rights to be recognised.
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Abubakar A. Ibrahim explores love, friendship, loss, sexism and violence in his debut novel Season of Crimson Blossoms, a story about a widowed, middle-aged teacher and her young gangster lover. Set in Northern Nigeria, the novel turns on its head preconceived views of what it means to be a Muslim woman living in a conservative society.
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Beginning in the seventies, and set in the backdrop of Nigeria’s turbulent military era, this coming-of-age story trails Enitan’s middle class existence from preteen to adulthood as she questions, resists, conforms and mocks gender norms.
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