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‘Hausa-Fulani’—the Nigerian Scapegoat

March 28, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Umar Bello ‘Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness’ – Pierre Bourdeau: Recent happenings in Nigeria have again necessitated the need to look into our peculiar circumstances and see the factors that may hinder … read more »

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Religion and Conflict in Nigeria: Learning to Play Well With Others

February 17, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

By Nick Street Senior Writer, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California On a brilliantly sunny Monday morning at the start of the rainy season, a couple of dozen young men gathered for a game of soccer … read more »

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Curbing Violence in Nigeria (I): The Jos Crisis

December 17, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Dakar/Brussels,  Unless addressed immediately, recurrent violence in Nigeria’s Plateau state will continue to fuel settler-indigene tensions and exacerbate intercommunal strife across the country. Curbing Violence in Nigeria (I): The Jos Crisis, the first in a series of International Crisis Group … read more »

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Independence Day reflections -The Trouble With Nigeria

October 1, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By JohnThomas Didymus Today, October 1, is Nigeria’s independence day. Fifty two years ago, at the Race Course in Lagos, the British anthem was sung for the last time and the Union Jack lowered. A green-white-green flag was hoisted in … read more »

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Northern Nigerian villages set ablaze

May 14, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Gunmen surrounded villages in northeast Nigeria and set them ablaze, killing at least 12 people and wounding 48 others in violence that could spread as attackers remain hiding in the rural region, the Nigerian Red Cross said Monday. The attacks … read more »

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This phase of Igbo genocide

April 19, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe The continuing failure of the Nigerian state to protect the Igbo people from genocide demands new solutions to realise security and self-determination. The concept ‘failed-state’ carries an understandable melodramatic import! It refers to the inability or failure of … read more »

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In an often divided Nigeria, latest suicide car bombing that killed 38 strikes all

April 9, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

KADUNA, Nigeria — The suicide car bombing that killed at least 38 people in Nigeria claimed victims across its religious and ethnic lines, showing clearly everyone is at risk in this nation often violently divided against itself. Young Muslim men … read more »

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The Igbo genocide and its aftermath

February 23, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

The tragedy of Africa’s unlearned lessons Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe The perpetrators, of what were unquestionably crimes against humanity appear to have got off free. The consequences of the Igbo genocide for Africa have been catastrophic. In 1966, soon after the world … read more »

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Revisiting history: Presaging the Igbo genocide

December 2, 2011 by benim

In his recently published book, ‘Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British’ (London: Viking, 2011), Jeremy Paxman allocates just 12 lines of the total 272-page study to British-occupied Nigeria. But the pithy commentary undoubtedly speaks volumes of the … read more »

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Africa’s Richest Man – Aliko Dangote Is A Criminal

March 18, 2011 by benim

I don’t care about the number of ditto heads and hapless jobbers who would come to his defense when this piece plays. But my candid assertion is that the character called Aliko Dangote who prides himself as an entrepreneur is … read more »

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