Nigeria Beyond the Headlines
Nigeria Beyond the Headlines: Population, Health, Natural Resources, and Governance “Nigeria is a country of marginalized people. Every group you talk to, from the Ijaws to the Hausas, will tell you they are […]
Author Archives: Chika Oduah
Traveling While Black
As I walked through the Forbidden City, the majestic imperial palace at the center of Beijing, with a friend and her teenager, I scanned the crowd. In the maze of […]
Nigerian State Raises Tabs To Curb Divorce
If you live in the northern Nigerian state of Kano, it will cost you $300 to divorce your wife. The new law has been introduced to curb the rocketing divorce […]
African Men Don’t Do Feminists
Ask an African man what he thinks about feminists. Go ahead, and record their answers so you can email it to me later. I like a good laugh to start […]
Nigeria’s Ethiopians Protest Abuse In Saudi Arabia
While thousands are decrying the reported abuse of Ethiopian migrants in Saudi Arabia, one woman hopes to stir more activism in Africa “I couldn’t sleep. If you see the pictures… […]
Why Brown Girls Need Brown Dolls
There have long been debates regarding Disney’s lack of diversity and further, the lack of diversity in dolls for children of color. While reading an article on this subject matter, […]
Josephat’s Search For Love
In continuing my story profiles on Tanzanian albinos in their struggling experiences to find love and get married (read more here: Love in a Time of Fear: Albino Women’s Stories […]
Love In A Time Of Fear: Albino Women’s Stories From Tanzania
Albino women in Tanzania share stories on love, family and survival in a country where albinos are targets for violence * * * * Grace Medaldi looked for love in […]
Jacarandas and Children: Reflections on Tanzania
It’s been exactly three weeks since I left Tanzania and my mind is pregnant with vivid thoughts. I must deliver. On an excursion made possible by the International Reporting Project […]
Yoruba Deities Re-visited
Photographer and Noire 3000 Studios CEO, James Lewis’s presents: The Orisha Experience. This is his photography collection of artistic interpretation of Yoruba deities James C. Lewis James C. Lewis James […]
Afrocentric Confessions 