The Afro Beat

This Economist article highlights the sad truth that even though 2007 has been "the year of the Nigerian writer", it has not been...

This article from Nigeria Village Square brought up so many burning questions around the new twist in EFCC's mandate - from bringing cor...

We're always quick to call out the gross misconduct of oil companies and our dearest federal and local government when it comes to the N...

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

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...