• Cut and run

    Transnational oil companies are looking to leave the Niger Delta without cleaning up their mess. Ken Henshaw reports.

  • Nigerian hopes for democracy on hold

    Many Nigerians saw the 2019 elections as another step toward better governance. For now, they wait in uncertainty. Chitra Nagarajan reports.

  • 10-year-old Ruth Bitrus from Michika, in northeastern Nigeria, whose parents were killed by Boko Haram following the invasion of her hometown. IMMANUEL OFOLABI

    Country profile: Nigeria

    Almost half of Nigerians want to move abroad in the next five years, Nosmot Gbadamosi writes, and the country’s population is expected to surpass that of the US by 2050.

  • Swapsies: Nigerian artist Lukas Osarobo-Okoro, photographed outside the British Museum in London. Osarobo-Okoro and the Ahiamwen Guild of Benin have offered to donate new artworks to the institution. DYLAN MARTINEZ/ALAMY

    Stolen treasures

    Taken during a violent British raid, the Benin bronzes have sat in Western museums and private collections for over a century. Kieron Monks reports on Nigeria’s battle to get them back and what it means for the wider…

  • Apathy reigns supreme in Nigeria’s fledgling democracy

    Marred with delays and disillusioned voters, Chitra Nagarajan weighs up the results of Nigeria’s presidential election.

  • Nigerians gather for the Abeokuta Prayer walk on 17 October 2020, mobilizing against police brutality and corrupt governance.  Credit: Asokeretope

    #EndSARS: Remembering a massacre

    Two years on from the Lekki toll gate shooting, Obiora Ikoku, reflects on the legacy of Nigeria’s youth-led movement against police brutality and speaks to survivors about their quest for justice.

  • Can peacebuilders end the war with Boko Haram?

    Guns will only take you so far in the fight against the jihadist rebels, Hazel Healy discovers.

  • Nigeria's security forces have long been accused of brutality, harassment, extorting citizens and locking them up if they are unable to pay.

    The fight to free Nigeria’s prisoners

    Two-thirds of the country’s inmates haven’t even been on trial yet. Nosmot Gbadamosi speaks to an all-woman law firm fighting for their rights.

  • Queer cities

    The city can provide cover and anonymity to those who seek it, explains David Nnanna Ikpo.

  • Yinka Shonibare sits in a wheelchair smiling

    Spotlight: Yinka Shonibare

    The acclaimed – and playful – sculptor Yinka Shonibare impresses on Subi Shah his love for cultural exchange.

  • Community resistance by ‘Shell to Sea’ campaigners in Ireland, who have linked their struggle to those against Shell in Nigeria. Image by Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

    What kind of world do we want to retire into?

    As a new report exposes the billions of pounds invested in fossil fuels by UK local government pension funds, Platform’s Laurie Mompelat…

  • In Nigeria pressure on natural resources driven by climate stress, alongside government. The link must be broken with Religion and climate change

    Don’t privatize forests, educate the people

    In rural Nigeria, religious leaders think sinful behaviour is to blame for climate change, writes Adesuwa Ero.

  • The war in Ukraine has hit Africa’s food security

    Russia’s invasion has triggered cost rises and staple shortages. Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo examines the crisis faced by low-income countries.

  • Child's play: A boy jumps across boats wedged on a mixture of crude oil, water and sand, near Bojo in the Niger Delta. Oil production is a major pollutant in the area. Petterik Wiggers/Panos 

    Fed up with the fumes

    Dirty air in Nigeria takes a huge toll on lives and livelihoods. But civil society is not short of ideas for change, as Michael Simire finds out.

  • Spotlight: The Critics

    Starting from humble DIY beginnings, Nigerian special effects posse The Critics are making waves. By Subi Shah.

  • Mahammoud Traore, 75, supports a family of 21 people through farming in Dougouninkoro, Mali, but new weather patterns mean they can no longer harvest enough for their food stores to last the whole year. JAKE LYELL/ALAMY

    Africa’s military coups are climate coups

    Abdoulie Ceesay, Gambian representative to COP28, argues that the West must take climate action – not militarization.
  • Offshore secrecy is a long-established phenomenon; bankers in Geneva and Zurich were catering to wealthy French and German elites long before the creation of the Swiss federal state in 1848. Delaware started to function as a tax haven in the late 19th century.

    Who’s the thief?

    Tax havens in the Global North enable the systematic looting of the Global South. John Christensen explains how their activities impoverish the world.

  • The alternative book review

    Peter Whittaker, Jo Lateu, Rahila Gupta weigh up recent releases in parallel publishing.

  • Illustration by Sarah John

    The two Yewandes of Jo’burg

    Yewande Omotoso’s namesake leads her down some unusual pathways.

  • The alternative film review

    Malcolm Lewis on the latest releases in parallel cinema: The Mole Agent (El agente topo), directed and written by Maite Alberdi; African Apocalypse, directed and co-written by Rob Lemkin.

  • The drugs don’t work

    Lea Surugue reports on the dramatic rise of heart disease in Africa and the corresponding crisis of fake cardiac drugs.

  • Home under threat: Endangered savanna elephants have a migratory corridor in the Kavango region. A CURIOUS APE

    Paradise lost?

    A vast area of Namibia and Botswana is under threat from oil and gas exploration. Devastating consequences are feared for the people, wildlife and natural environment. Graeme Green reports on the fight to keep Kavango…

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    Why Indian outrage over Black Lives Matter rings hollow

    Anti-blackness is still a galvanizing force in India, writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

  • A study of 10,000 young people across 10 countries found 45 per cent said climate change ‘negatively affected their daily life and functioning’. The impact was significantly higher in the four Global South countries surveyed: Brazil, Nigeria, the Philippines and India. MEDIA LENS KING/SHUTTERSTOCK

    Futures: A world to win

    We don’t just need solutions – we need the courage to imagine they will succeed. Conrad Landin makes the case for collective action to secure a just future.