Maker Faire Africa brought its yearly pan-African innovation fair to Lagos, Nigeria this year. It was three days of exhibitions, workshops, D.I.Y. demonstrations, a public “maker space” and enthusiastic celebration of African ingenuity & creativity. Produced by Maker Faire Africa with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation and African Innovation Foundation, and the endorsement of Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, the event [...]

by Kola Tubosun
On “being” the relative of a dead prince

By Aloofar It is 50 years and Nigeria, like every other country craving for a change in its affairs, has witnessed series of civil demonstrations in all its known forms: sit-ins, arm-in-arm protests, sloganeering placards, angry words from exiled citizens etc. etc. Civil demonstration is often the lot of autonomous territories. Thanks to technology, civil demonstrations have evolved into less [...]

The news that President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria had created a Facebook page eventually got to me through Google Buzz where comments had been made to the effect that the power infrastructure issue should be easy to solve. Apparently, the President had zeroed in on a comment and arranged for his aides to contact some “visionary” who appeared to have [...]

I thought I’d have you listen in on this IM conversation I had with a friend from medical school, Simon Adebola, about science, science illiteracy and biomedical science in Nigeria/Africa. Simon blogs at iInitiative. Simon Adebola: So tell me, what is new in the nebulous world of cells transmitters and neurobiology? Seye Abimbola: Nebulous world? Simon Adebola: Just teasing. But [...]

29/01/10 – 05/02/10 Yes, we get it. Apple’s soon-to-be-released tablet, iPad, sounds uncomfortably similar to a popular female sanitary product. Jokes over.  Though, Kola Tubosun points out the less obvious difficulty with the iPawd brand. Shortly after the foiled terrorist plot to blow-up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, blogger and regular NigeriansTalk Contributor, Seye Abimbola, described several instances of [...]

The word ‘blog’, ‘blogger’ or ‘blogging’ come into existence with the advent of Web 2.0. Websites such as www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com provided a free means (e.g. www.spiritofjesus.blogspot.com or www.charmingff.wordpress.com) for people who are generally referred to as bloggers to have a blog (an online journal) where they can share their thoughts or knowledge (blogging) almost every day based on their [...]

Technological advance hasn’t exactly been the buzz-phrase in West Africa during the last decade, but the history books will most certainly use it regularly to refer to the immense leaps taken in a relatively short period of time. Nigeria will most certainly feature highly within this context. Fastest growing economy (at one point anyway), fastest growing banking industry, fastest growing [...]

I recently went to BarCampAfricaUK here in London. For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is, it’s generally a gathering of people around a topic, where all the attendees can contribute by hosting a talk, or by actively getting involved in a discussion. There is no formal structure, you turn up, you see what’s happening, who is [...]

The NigeriansTalk.org Weekly Linked List #1 The following are some interesting stories we have found this week from the Nigerian blogosphere.  We plan on featuring such links every Thursday. Chxta gives a blow-by-blow rundown of Anambra gubernatorial politics from 1999 onwards. BellaNaija reveals exclusive photos from Nollywood heavyweight-turned-evangelist Liz Benson’s wedding At the Bombastic Element blog, news is in that [...]