Nathaniel Bivan
Solutions and Conflict Journalist at Freelance
Independent Solutions & conflict journalist | former features editor @HumAngle_ | former arts editor @daily_trust | Mentor | Author, Boys,Girls & Beasts
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4 weeks ago |
techcabal.com | Nathaniel Bivan
At three years old, Opeoluwa Akinola began to lose his sight. He was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder that gradually narrows the field of vision until no sight remains. In a handful of years, his vision was completely gone. Everything changed for Akinola. The world slowed and obstacles appeared at every turn. He grappled with limited access, a loss of independence, and the quiet isolation that often shadows disability.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Nathaniel Bivan
Seven years ago, when Dalyop Timothy Toma was 15, an angry mob came in the night to torch his family’s home in Kyeng village. Everyone but his grandfather fled outside into the bushes to safety. “He couldn’t run because he was disabled,” recalls Mr. Toma, his face contorting in grief at the memory of his grandfather’s killing.
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Nov 5, 2024 |
csmonitor.com | Nathaniel Bivan
Seventeen-year-old Ahmad Aminu finished secondary school and would like to go to college near his village in Zamfara state. But this region of northwestern Nigeria bears the brunt of attacks by bandits who kidnap students for ransom. “All the big schools are in the forest,” Mr. Aminu says by phone in Hausa, the dominant local language.
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Oct 10, 2024 |
elpais.com | Nathaniel Bivan
Sebastine Andrew llegó al centro penitenciario de Jos (Estado de Plateau, centro-norte de Nigeria) en 2021, tras verse implicado en un robo a mano armada. Había dejado sus estudios después de la secundaria y al llegar a la cárcel comenzó a leer de nuevo y decidió unirse a un programa educativo que ha transformado la vida de varias decenas de reos en un país donde las prisiones están superpobladas y no cuentan con apenas recursos.
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Jul 25, 2024 |
primeprogressng.com | Nathaniel Bivan
“I will never stop smoking,” Apollos Daniel Yashim had vowed in 2019. But that would change. Yashim, 34, did drugs at a spot nicknamed ‘antenna’, near a telecommunications mast in Narayi, a suburb of Kaduna city in northwest Nigeria. In this rocky neighbourhood, he smoked wrap after wrap of marijuana and other narcotics until he dropped to the ground, semi-conscious (every time). Now, in retrospect, Yashim figures those wraps he smoked ran into hundreds per day.
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