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Nigeria: Letting Our Children Live Like Dogs

Nigeria: Letting Our Children Live Like Dogs

by / on February 22, 2012, 3:08 pm

We need to tackle an emergency that has our children live like dogs in the name of some higher but unconscionable goal.

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Nigeria: Facing down the impunity of domestic violence

by / on June 30, 2011, 3:04 pm

A husband’s murder of his wife brings into sharp focus our acceptance of the impunity of domestic violence and sometimes the preference of that for the sake of keeping a loveless marriage going to appease the needs for tradition and societal norms.

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Say you’re one of them…

by / on August 10, 2009, 4:47 pm

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. When I first saw the [...]

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