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2 months ago | 
republic.com.ng | Diana Ejaita |Wale Lawal |Kai Mora |Emmanuel Esomnofu
Demas Nwoko did not coin the term, ‘Natural Synthesis’. That was the illustrator, Uche Okeke. However, Nwoko, along with Okeke and several other artists affiliated with the Art Department of the Nigerian College of Art, Science and Technology, in Zaria—a movement eventually known as the ‘Zaria Art Society’ or the ‘Zaria Rebels’—pioneered the post-colonial art paradigm around the 1960s.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Kai Mora
Perhaps the most famous examination of the voyage is Ivan Van Sertima’s They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (1976). Historian, John Henrik Clarke, was among the first to positively review the book in the journal, Presence Africaine.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Kai Mora
Perhaps the most famous examination of the voyage is Ivan Van Sertima’s They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (1976). Historian, John Henrik Clarke, was among the first to positively review the book in the journal Presence Africaine.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Kai Mora
On June 26, Seun Kuti and Damian Marley released "Dey" -jazzy, funky, and indicative of the sound that defined Nigerian star Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Seun, Fela's youngest son, has been carrying the mantle of his father's sound since his death in 1997. Seun first appeared alongside his father in 1991 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in New York City.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Kai Mora
What is the colonial situation? Fanon writes that the first encounter between ‘native’ and settler’ is ‘marked by violence and their existence together—that is to say the exploitation of the native by the settler—was carried on by a dint of a great array of bayonets and cannons.’ As a result, a fundamental opposition is baked into the colonial world. ‘The dividing line,’ and ‘the frontiers,’ Fanon writes, ‘are shown by barracks and police stations.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Kai Mora
Niguisie Kassaye writes that Yifru, Selassie I’s Foreign Minister, first began diplomatic relations with then-Guinean President Sekou Toure and his representative, Diallo Telli, the first secretary-general of the impending OAU.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Kai Mora
Niguisie Kassaye writes that Yifru, Selassie I’s Foreign Minister, first began diplomatic relations with then-Guinean President Sekou Toure and his representative, Diallo Telli, the first secretary-general of the impending OAU.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
republic.com.ng | Kai Mora
Arguably the most critical narrative which links Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the story of Ibrahim (Abraham) (AS), Sarai (Sarah), and Hajar (Hagar) (RA). It would be Hajar and Sarai who give birth to the two most significant lineages in Abrahamic tradition, Isma’il and Ishaq (Ishmael and Isaac), respectively (RA). According to Abrahamic tradition, the former was an Egyptian woman, a daughter of the pharaoh gifted to Sarai as a servant while in Egypt.
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
republic.com.ng | Kai Mora
Editor’s note: This essay is available in our print issue, Pan-African Dreams. Buy the issue here. One might call Ethiopia’s rise as a key driver of the pan-Africanist movement ironic since Ethiopia had never been formally colonized in the same manner or chronology as the rest of Africa. But Ethiopia had been a symbol of Black liberation and pan-African unity to the African diaspora long before pan-Africanism reached the continent.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
republic.com.ng | Kai Mora
Perhaps Frantz Fanon is most widely recognized for his theories on violence which he developed during the Algerian Revolution, one of the bloodiest wars in human history. These theories have proven timeless and more than 60 years later are ringing true on the Parisian streets. On 27 June, two French police officers approached Nahel Merzouk at a traffic stop in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris.
