Monthly Archives: August 2009

Hillary Clinton’s Nigeria trip, filtered

United States’ Sec­re­tary of States Hillary Clin­ton flew into Abuja, the cap­i­tal of Nige­ria, last Tues­day night, August 11th, to spend nearly three days in her 11-day, seven-country tour of the African con­ti­nent. As might be expected, the Niger­ian blo­gos­phere was quite active with com­men­tary regard­ing the details and impli­ca­tions of Clinton’s visit. While Niger­ian

Say you’re one of them…

Uduak, of the Noll­yarts blog and co-producer of the child witches’ doc­u­men­tary — Edikan — shares her thoughts on the cov­er­age of the Akwa Ibom Child witch phe­nom­e­non in the Niger­ian blo­gos­phere. Say you’re one of them is a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries writ­ten by Father Uwem Akpan It won this year’s com­mon­wealth writer’s prize.