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Will Africa See More Protests In 2025?

2 months ago | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Pelumi Salako

Many experts have expressed that the effectiveness and success of the protests varied. While some achieved partial success, others were stuck in the face of significant challenges which often fell short of the protesters’ core demands. ‘In Nigeria, the government’s response included some conciliatory gestures, such as increasing the minimum wage and distributing rice to each state.
How to Make Climate Action Africa-Friendly

2 months ago | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Ifeanyi Nsofor

Photo illustration by Dami Mojid / THE REPUBLIC. Photo illustration by Dami Mojid / THE REPUBLIC.
Language Is the First Casualty of Exile

2 months ago | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Dami Ajayi

Illustration by Oluwaseye Sanyaolu / THE REPUBLIC. Illustration by Oluwaseye Sanyaolu / THE REPUBLIC.
Language Is the First Casualty of Exile

2 months ago | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Dami Ajayi

Illustration by Oluwaseye Sanyaolu / THE REPUBLIC. Illustration by Oluwaseye Sanyaolu / THE REPUBLIC.
The Exclusion of the North African Novel in English from African Literature

Jan 19, 2025 | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Fayssal Bensalah

Photo illustration by Ezinne Osueke / THE REPUBLIC.
It Is Time to Let the ‘African Mother’ Jokes Go

Jan 12, 2025 | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Chukwuka Odigbo

Photo illustration by Ezinne Osueke / THE REPUBLIC. Photo illustration by Ezinne Osueke / THE REPUBLIC.
Youth, Poetry and the Nigerian Traumatic

Jan 12, 2025 | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu

In his 2022 poem, ‘Demystifying the Science Behind Boys in My Country Evaporating into Mist at Every Shutter Click’, Abdulkareem Abdulkareem’s affirmative, disinterested voice is not so much dishevelled by the condition of insecurity it reifies any more than Samuel A.
The Africans Lost in the Diaspora

Jan 12, 2025 | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Ibrahim Williams

I was born and bred in Lagos, arguably the commercial capital of the continent, but I’d never seen an African map up close. The map, which shows all 54 independent nations of the continent, has Algeria at its top and South Africa at its bottom. There is no inclusion of Somaliland like there is in real life since it is yet to be recognized by many sovereign nations even as it continues to efficiently govern itself since 1991.
What It Means to Attend Aké Festival

Jan 12, 2025 | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Seyi Lasisi

Photo illustration by Ezinne Osueke / THE REPUBLIC. Ref: Ake Arts and Book Festival @akefestival / INSTAGRAM.
A New Era of Nigeria-India Relations?

Jan 12, 2025 | republic.com.ng | Shalom Ojo |Diana Ejaita |Sarah N. Kanu |Adeleke Ogunnoiki

India’s Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and Nigeria’s President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Abuja, 2024. MEA INDIA / FLICKR.