100 years of pop music in Nigeria: what shaped four eras

Posted on Mon 02 January 2023 in Nigeria • Tagged with Afrobeats, music, Jùjú, Yoruba, Tunde King, HighLife, pidgin. Victor Olaiya, Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, Fela, Shina Peters, Onyeka Onwenu, Naija hip hop, Lagbaja, Asa, Davido, Wizkid, BurnaBoy, Tems

Nigerian musician Fela Kuti and his band in Harlem, New York, 1989. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images

Chijioke Ngobili, University of Nigeria

The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the early months of 2020 shut down nearly all physical and social human activities. For musical practice this meant near death …


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The Promise and Peril of Nigeria’s 2023 Elections

Posted on Tue 27 December 2022 in Nigeria • Tagged with Buhari, INEC, Elections, PVC, PDP, APC, Obi, Atiku, Tinubu

Buhari's Military Past

Michelle Gavin, The Council on Foreign Relations

Nigeria’s 2023 general election is just weeks away. With incumbent President Mohammadu Buhari term-limited, the country will be choosing a new leader. That new president will immediately confront an exhausting array of challenges, from multiple, complex security crises to a disastrously mismanaged …


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