Tag: nigeria

• Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria’s informal settlements

  May 17, 2020

  MAKOKO, Nigeria — On Jan. 21 Shedrach Zunze woke up to the sound of gunshots in his home in Tarkwa Bay, the little corridor of the Lagos Lagoon, on the… more ›

• Nigeria’s immediate future looks bleak without oil revenue—it doesn’t have to be that way

  May 17, 2020

  Globalization, automation, and inequality. That prediction, made by the World Bank in 2017, and based on decades of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, has proven astute. Amid a crippling coronavirus pandemic,… more ›

• How Google created a Nigerian voice and accent for Maps

  August 4, 2019

  Directions and local street names, previously mispronounced by a default American or British accent, were now offered in a familiar accent with a new “Nigerian English” option. Novel as it… more ›

• The Descendants of Slaves in Nigeria Fight for Equality

  July 14, 2019

  On a sunny morning in November, 2018, twelve men and two women gathered in a lavishly furnished living room in Oguta, a town in southeastern Nigeria, with the air-conditioning at… more ›

• Africa’s desperate youth are getting high on…

  May 13, 2018

  Gutter water isn’t the only dangerous cocktail of drugs which a generation of young Africans use to get their high or fix for relatively cheap. Everything from lizard dung and… more ›

• Uber drivers in Lagos are using a fake GPS app to…

  January 21, 2018

  Uber drivers in Lagos are using a fake GPS app to inflate rider fares » Some Uber drivers in Lagos have been using a fake GPS itinerary app to illicitly… more ›

• Nigeria’s kleptocrats have a toxic love affair…

  November 26, 2017

  Nigeria’s kleptocrats have a toxic love affair with London’s expensive real estate » The prevailing narratives about corruption in Nigeria rarely mention its international dimension. They tend to gloss over… more ›

• Tour reveals shady Nigerian cash behind London…

  November 26, 2017

  Tour reveals shady Nigerian cash behind London luxury homes » It’s not the usual tour of London. The tour bus might go past landmarks such as Big Ben and Buckingham… more ›

• Rare photos of life inside an ancient kingdom…

  October 22, 2017

  Rare photos of life inside an ancient kingdom capture Nigeria’s transition to independence » For more than half a century, Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge, a self-taught photographer from Benin City,… more ›

• There’s more to homegrown African literature than…

  October 22, 2017

  There’s more to homegrown African literature than what Western publishers favor » African literature is the object of immense international interest across both academic and popular registers. Far from the… more ›