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12 Nov 2013 3 minute read

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The struggle continues, 18 years after the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa

Shell has left Ogoniland but the promised clean-up never came, reports Celestine Akpobari.

30 Sep 2013 4 minute read

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Asylum denied to teenager at risk of FGM

Why is Britain threatening to send a Nigerian girl back home to face female genital mutilation? asks Mischa Wilmers...

1 Aug 2013 3 minute read

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Change-makers: women of the African diaspora

A long tradition of positive social action sets international standards, writes Minna Salami.

Tope Folarin wins 2013 Caine Prize

9 Jul 2013 1 minute read

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Tope Folarin wins 2013 Caine Prize

Folarin becomes the first writer based outside Africa to scoop the continent’s leading literary award.

A year without David

26 Jan 2012 3 minute read

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A year without David

A year after the LGBT rights activist David Kato was murdered in Uganda, Sokari Ekine writes to him about...

Nigeria’s fuel subsidy: the spark that lit the fire

6 Jan 2012 3 minute read

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Nigeria’s fuel subsidy: the spark that lit the fire

By cutting the fuel subsidy the Nigerian government has snatched away the main benefit to the people from the country's oil...

Nigeria's ‘anti-gay bill’ is another backward step

5 Dec 2011 3 minute read

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Nigeria's ‘anti-gay bill’ is another backward step

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

Shrugging off gang rape

26 Oct 2011 3 minute read

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Shrugging off gang rape

Sokari Ekine on how the videoed rape of a young woman that went viral on YouTube was dismissed by the...

Shell’s environmental guilt confirmed

5 Oct 2011 3 minute read

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Shell’s environmental guilt confirmed

Two new reports underline what activists have been saying for years: oil companies are complicit in human rights abuses and...

419 reasons to like Nigeria

20 Sep 2011 3 minute read

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419 reasons to like Nigeria

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

Children for sale

13 Jun 2011 3 minute read

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Children for sale

Monday 13 June marked the International Day Against Child Labour, a day millions of the world's exploited and abused children...

1 Jun 2011 3 minute read

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Ben Okri

The award-winning Nigerian poet and novelist tells Rowenna Davis why now is the time for new dreams.

A cheese sandwich

18 May 2011 5 minute read

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A cheese sandwich

Nigeria is a source country for trafficking women and children to other African countries and Europe, but the authorities...

A wake-up call

5 Oct 2010 6 minute read

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A wake-up call

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

A wake-up call

5 Oct 2010 6 minute read

This article is more than 12 years old.

A wake-up call

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

Helping kids accused of witchcraft in the Niger Delta

30 Sep 2010 2 minute read

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Helping kids accused of witchcraft in the Niger Delta

Alasdair Soussi talks to Gary Foxcroft, whose organization, Stepping Stones Nigeria, is helping some of the country’s most...

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