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Northern Nigeria & Internal Displacement by Eunice Amoka, Nigeria

Author: Eunice Amoka, Nigeria
Published: June 20, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Democracy, English, Human Rights, Identity, Nigeria, Tolerance
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Tags: nigeria, refugees, WorldRefugeesDay

I was born, and have lived over half of my life in Kaduna State, which is located in northern Nigeria. I was born during the 1992 Zangon Kataf crisis, which was a result of an explosive mix of religious and ethnic rivalry. This crisis led to the burning of buildings, destruction of property, the death […]

Her Plight by James S. Namalira, Nigeria

Author: James S Namalira
Published: June 19, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Education, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Tolerance
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Tags: internationaldayfortheeliminationofsexualviolences, nigeria, sexualviolence, women rights

A true life experience of Kozito Eze I was in Lagos for the weekend for a couple of meetings and other personal arrangements sometime in May. I had to make the quick trip totally unplanned, because of how personally important securing bags is to me. But, I had to make a quick return to my […]

AUTHENTICITY OF AFRICAN CULTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON CULTURE APPROPRIATION by Timi Aluko, Nigeria

Author: By Timi Aluko, Nigeria
Published: May 21, 2019
Categories: in Art, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Education, English, Identity, Nigeria, Special Edition Archive, Travel
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Tags: africa, culturalappropriation, history, nigeria

Lying on my bed with my eyes glued to my phone screen, I was scrolling through the pages of my Instagram feed. From slaying mamas to small businesses to black Americans screaming cultural appropriation. A particular post caught my eye, cultural appropriation of the Ankara fabric. I read the details of the post and I […]

Greenland by Chibuike Burxymoore Emmanuel, Nigeria

Author: By Chibuike Burxymoore Emmanuel, Nigeria
Published: March 28, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Development, Education, English, Nigeria
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Tags: africa, entrepreneurship, environment, greenland, Inspiration, nigeria, planetearth, recycle

When popular Nigerian musician TY Bello sang the song ‘The Land is Green’ from her Greenland album, she was re-echoing an ideal birthed by Nigeria’s founding fathers. This ideal is captured so ebulliently on the Nigerian flag which is striped Green White Green. This greenness represents the rich and fertile soil-the precious earth on which […]

WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS! (How a Nigerian man was inspired by feminism)

Author: Abdulfawaz Oyebamiji Tunde, Nigeria
Published: January 20, 2019
Categories: in Civil Activism, Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Education, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Human Rights, Nigeria
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Tags: books, Chimamandangoziachidie, Feminism, Inspiration, learning, nigeria, opinion, weshouldallbefeminists

As I sit behind my desk as Chief Editor at the World Peace Institute, a pen in one hand and ‘Half of a yellow sun’ in the other, my mind drifted off to the moment I actually got acquainted with the works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. While in high school -especially in my junior years- […]

WARRING KIN by Ifeoluwa, Nigeria

Published: September 7, 2017
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Nigeria
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Tags: childhood memories, conflict, hatred, nigeria, peace, violence, youth

I was eleven years old when I woke to the sound of bullet cartridges pattering on the iron sheet roof of our home. It was 15 years ago. From that moment everything I had known about this small town, Ile-Ife, where I was born in Nigeria , changed forever. Life as I knew it came […]

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