Becoming Nigerian Part 1: One Year In
This is part 1 of my series ‘Becoming Nigerian’ I flew into Abuja, Nigeria on a Lufthansa aircraft in December 2012. It’s been one year, a year of profound personal […]
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Chinua Achebe’s Anti-colonial Novels Are Still Relevant Today
Chinua Achebe‘s mission statement, by his own admission, was to “set the record straight”. His seminal work, Things Fall Apart, was the first in an African trilogy that […]
Nigeria’s Igbo Jews: ‘Lost tribe’ of Israel?
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — A Shabbat service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria’s federal capital territory. Fourteen year-old Kadmiel Izungu Abor heads there […]
Afrocentric Confessions 