The Afro Beat

The post below is from Wadami of FashionAfrica.com. Thanks Dammie! It's definitely an interesting take on what seems a well-meaning conc...

Sorry for the hiatus folks - i've been very ill but i'm back (THANK GOD). To be honest, the absence hasn't only been due to illn...

Please visit COKERP 's blog as he's done his homework and gotten a lot of information on the Akwa-Ibom authorities in a position to ...

It seems we're not the only ones writhing in that frustration that comes from the realization that hardly anything has changed when it c...

Some people called it, but others of us most certainly didn't see this one coming. According to the BBC , reports say Nuhu Ribadu has be...

This story in The Observer (Guardian) has enraged all who have read it so far. We need to do something about this perverse form of child ab...

Looks promising. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD... +234 Magazine is a branding tool for the country, and is hereby calling for submission of article...

"The value of life has suddenly become greatly fractionalized and the worth drastically reduced. Is that due to poverty too? Probably i...

The first sentence of this allAfrica.com article was much more promising than the actual story it relates. At least the allegations against...

Reuben Abati examines the first 100 days of the Yar'Adua administration and what gaps need to be filled in the coming months...we do ag...

Achille Mbembe's commentary (thankfully translated by my former African Studies prof) is an insightful critique of Nicolas Sarkozy'...

Following Nawahala's (interesting name choice there, eh?...if you're confused, see 6th comment on "Stop Trying to Save Africa...

SolomonSydelle's comments spurred me to research the hot news on the naija scene about the governors who have been arrested by the EFCC...

This article from the Washington Post is just one of many these days decrying the media's (and the Western world's) portrayal of Af...

The clip below is of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's (former Nigerian finance minister) phenomenal speech at the TED Global conference a few month...

Although New York Times article doesn't focus specifically on the Nigerian higher education system, the similarities across African cou...

The idea to put up this article came in response to Pseudo-Independent's comment about hoping that the incoming administration will enfo...

This article lauds the long-overdue commencement of the Abuja Light Railway project. The writer is of the opinion that because the Lagos pub...

Twenty years ago, Dele Olojede was in Nigeria, a reporter for the independent national Concord newspaper, whose editor spent two weeks in de...