The Afro Beat

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

Here's a documentary worth checking out. The film follows a group of talented musicians who fled the civil war in their home country of ...

We've been hearing a lot in the past two months about Yar'Adua needing to act quickly to establish the legitimacy of his government ...

This article from the New York Times explains one of the reasons why Nigeria like so many other sub-Saharan African nations are performing...

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...

Insight with Richard Cockett and Raufu Mustapha: A new government but is Nigeria ungovernable? Richard Cockett has been Africa Editor of The...

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

This post was initially an email sent to us from Nnamdi Awa-Kalu (thanks Nnamdi!) but we decided to share it on the Beat because of the inte...

This BBC News article brought a rarely-discussed issue to mind...why don't African leaders speak out against the misdeeds of their fell...

Just thought we could encourage you in your daily struggles by sharing this powerful and remarkable speech by Bill Gates at Harvard Universi...

One last shameless plug for the plight of Nigerian higher education... Here's part of an email from a Psychology professor at Enugu Stat...

Following up Kome's comment on the "Who Needs an Education" post last week and given that the state of tertiary education in N...

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IN RECENT HISTORY, NIGERIANS HAVE BEEN OVERWHELMINGLY BETRAYED BY THOSE CHARGED WITH ADDRESSING THEIR NEEDS. INSTEAD OF SERVING THE PEOPLE, ...

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...

This article from Today's Guardian Newspaper and talks about the HIV/AIDS plight of the African female (apparently, we're an endang...