Nigeria

A year after the LGBT rights activist David Kato was murdered in Uganda, Sokari Ekine writes to him about changes in Africa since his death.…

By cutting the fuel subsidy the Nigerian government has snatched away the main benefit to the people from the country's oil wealth, says Sokari Ekine.…

Nigeria's new legislation is just another way of legitimizing all kinds of sexual prejudice and violence, says Sokari Ekine.…

Sokari Ekine on how the videoed rape of a young woman that went viral on YouTube was dismissed by the Nigerian police as ‘boys behaving badly’.…

Two new reports underline what activists have been saying for years: oil companies are complicit in human rights abuses and environmental devastation in the Niger Delta.…

In the wake of a new campaign to promote Nigeria, Sokari Ekine argues this is no time for backslapping.…

Monday 13 June marked the International Day Against Child Labour, a day millions of the world's exploited and abused children have never even heard of…

Nigeria is a source country for trafficking women and children to other African countries and Europe, but the authorities behave as if that was a cheese sandwich.…

Sokari Ekine assesses the violence around the elections in Nigeria.…

Sokari Ekine considers what the Independence Day bombings mean for Nigeria's future.…