The man on the stretcher seemed lifeless at first, his face serene, albeit a bit swollen. His shirt was completely unbuttoned showing a massive stomach which drooped at the sides and bobbled as the stretcher was wheeled. The stretcher was pushed by a nurse who seemed a bit reluctant or nonchalant. The nurse’s apparent disdain was in contrast to the [...]

Perspectives is a monthly column featuring guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow political and cultural happenings in Nigeria. The columnist this month is Amy McKie. Often times in our lives various events converge to cause us to question our knowledge and the knowledge readily available to us. After a bad relationship I wanted to ensure that I didn’t harbour any resentment or [...]

Courtesy Vanguard Nigeria The history of Nigeria has for too long been like a bad Nollywood movie. Nigeria is that battered housewife who has taken her beatings quietly, allowed her earnings to be squandered by her wasteful, alcoholic, extravagant, unworthy husband. Even when we choose our leaders, it seems we choose to stay on our most destructive trend. Our political [...]

Perspectives is a monthly column featuring guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow political and cultural happenings in Nigeria. The columnist this month is Femke van Zeijl. 1. Surround myself with true friends who will tell me that I am full of shit if I am. Those who won’t pretend everything I do or say is wonderful, just because I’m white. [...]

Perspectives is a monthly column featuring guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow political and cultural happenings in Nigeria. This month, Jim de Wilde puts forth a model for how Nigeria can make the most out of its relationship with China. Imagine a Nigeria in 2016 where a Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund has created a Global Tropical Agriculture Fund in partnership with a [...]

NigeriansTalk started a new feature in June where we feature monthly guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow Nigerian politics and cultural happenings. We hope this will liven up the site by giving you an outside-the-country point-of-view on Nigeria, and hopefully make you see respective issues in a different light. This month, Cara Harshman, aka Titilayo Oyinbo, weighs in on why [...]

Starting in June, NigeriansTalk will feature monthly guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow Nigerian politics and cultural happenings. We hope this will liven up the site by giving you an outside the country point-of-view on Nigeria, and hopefully make you see respective issues in a different light. This month, Alex Thurston provides his analysis on the voting patterns of northern [...]

I  saw poster of I See Lagos a few weeks ago when I was visiting family, but, thanks to Emeka Okafor‘s blog Africa Unchained, I now know what it is. Heh. It’s weird how you can always tell when a government is doing something that bears paying attention to, and when they’re not. When INEC sent out its BB Pin [...]

It is with more than a pang of regret that I acknowledge that I do not understand Yoruba. OK, that’s not entirely true. After all, there is nothing you can say to me in Yoruba that I won’t understand. There isn’t enough Nigeria in my voice, apparently, to give this understanding of the language away, but I’ve actually learned to [...]

The following was cross-posted at my blog Method to the Madness. The Nigerian #WhatAboutUs Presidential debate left me cold, and it’s taken me a couple of days to understand why. Let’s forget for one moment the question of whether or not this debate will change the electoral calculus. It won’t. Probably everyone in that room holds themselves in high enough [...]