The Afro Beat

This letter, written by Funke, a friend of The Afro Beat, is a wake-up call addressed to our "democratically-elected" leaders to g...

Ok, so this was one of those blood-boiling-type articles that leaves you dazed. Of course, we've all heard about the "great" L...

A pro-Etteh member of the House of Reps slumps from suspected cardiac arrest. Nothing too unusual about this heading. Very sad indeed and we...

This allAfrica.com article doesn't suggest that the Human Rights Watch report on Nigeria says anything new. Nigerians know the 2007 elec...

"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...

"Industry Players Differ On Scrapping of NNPC" - allAfrica.com "Nigerians abroad plan mega firm to run refineries, power pla...

A friend of the AfroBeat, Shirley, who works with the African Leadership Academy (ALA) (a world-class boarding school opening outside Johan...

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...