Mao Kaci on NigeriansTalk: Any time I recall scenes from that video showing security officers of the Nigerian state ferret men, young and old, able and disabled, from behind closed doors in their homes and efficiently shoot them to death in the streets of Maiduguri in 2009, I find myself thinking: If that had been… Read More »
1. Unsere Frauen bleiben frei! – On Islamophobia in Berlin 2. Threat to bomb 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos? Yes, it has something to do with Boko Haram. 3. Why Nigeria recognised Libya transition council – Minister for foreign affairs explains 4. On Libyan revolutionaries and racism. See also Jina Moore on the same topic… Read More »
Both on NigeriansTalk. First, in a post titled Jos and Maiduguri Attacks: If not ethno-religious, then what? Yomi Ogunsanya writes: The crises can also be understood in the context of Nigeria’s perverse inequality, high rate of unemployment, and worsening poverty rate, all of which are, of course, largely the upshot of institutional dysfunction, absence of… Read More »