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Author: Zainab Usman

Analysis · General · Politics

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Boko Haram Rejects Amnesty Offer: Now What?

  • April 11, 2013

“Mr Shekau said his group had done no wrong and so an amnesty would not be applicable to them. It was the Nigerian government that was committing atrocities against Muslims,[...]

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APC: The Game Changer?

  • March 23, 2013

“This is a new dawn for our generation. This is unusual. It is gratifying that they are here to see and share with us,” the middle aged man remarked with[...]

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(Re)Defining African Feminism

  • March 9, 2013

At a recent consultative session with a delegation of the Nigerian Parliament, the National Assembly, the issue of women’s participation in politics came up, and one of the male parliamentarians[...]

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Keep Talking, They Can Hear Us!

  • March 1, 2013

During the course of an interactive session with members of the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) ad-hoc Constitution Review committee, at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the NASS delegation alluded[...]

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A Message for General Buhari

  • January 31, 2013

A concerned reader of my blog recently sent me an article which he requested that I reproduce with an urgent message for three-time Nigerian presidential aspirant and former head of[...]

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Nigeria’s Dual Economy

  • January 11, 2013

Back in secondary school, I distinctly remember being taught in Social Studies class that Nigeria operates a mixed economy – an admixture of socialism and capitalism. It made little sense[...]

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Nigeria’s Missing Billions and Trillions

  • December 20, 2012

It used to be tens of millions of naira and occasionally, hundreds of millions of naira and when a corruption incident amounting to a billion naira was mentioned, we were[...]

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TEDxEuston 2012: Challenging Conventional Wisdom

  • December 3, 2012

Ndidi Nwuneli, Director, Sahel Capital Partners. Founder of LEAP Africa and NIA   As I walked into the Mermaid Conference Centre on that chilly December morning, I expected the pervasive[...]

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Another Milestone for African Women

  • November 7, 2012

  Fauzia Yusuf Haji, Somalia’s soon-to-be First Female Foreign Minister Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adan is set to become Somalia’s first female Foreign Minister in newly elected Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon’s cabinet. Her[...]

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Achebe and the Myth of Nigerian Exceptionalism

  • October 18, 2012

It has been only a few weeks since the prolific and renowned author, Professor Chinua Achebe’s personal account of the 1967 Nigerian Civil War, “There Was a Country” was published,[...]

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