Sa’eed Husaini

Jan 21, 2025 | africasacountry.com | Sa’eed Husaini |William Shoki

The month of August saw mass protest erupt in the West African country of Nigeria. Spurred by anger over a cost-of-living crisis and drawing inspiration from the Kenya’s youth revolt, the #EndBadGovernance protests became a rallying point for calls to take action to curb inflation and reverse the hike in prices of fuel, electricity, and food.

Dec 11, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Sa’eed Husaini |Sean Jacobs

Recorded as Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived for bilateral talks with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, this episode explores the dynamics of the Nigeria-South Africa relationship. At first glance, the warm visuals emerging from their meeting might lead an uninformed observer to believe that these two nations, represented by their amiable leaders, are the best of friends, united by a historical bond of tender affection and brotherly love.

Jul 10, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Sa’eed Husaini |Keith Ang'ana |Sharon Tshipa |William Shoki

Nigeria does not typically figure prominently in the global history of anticolonial radicalism, leftist revolutionary movements, or Pan-African solidarity. Nor is this entirely unfair. Nigerian independence leaders, including Nnamdi Azikiwe and especially Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, provided some of the staunchest opposition to Nkrumah’s proposals for an Africa-wide political union.

Apr 25, 2024 | roape.net | Immaculata Abba |Sa’eed Husaini

Immaculata Abba and Sa’eed Husaini introduce a project that aims at digitising important and imperilled archival holdings of Nigeria’s radical and pro-democracy activists to increase accessibility to these materials as well as to preserve them for posterity.

Apr 17, 2023 | jacobin.com | Sa’eed Husaini

In the wake of the hard-fought and widely unpopular presidential victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election, it is easily forgotten that the ruling party’s initial triumph in 2015 seemed to represent the flowering of popular aspiration.