#theguardian.com. × ‘I was told books don’t sell here. I knew that wasn’t true’: the English teacher shaking up Nigeria’s publishing scene. After a brush with death pushed Othuke Ominiabohs to self-publish his novels, he realised there was a gap in the market for fresh African writing
#Jan.29.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × At least six people seriously injured on flight from Nigeria to Washington DC. Nigerian officials say a Boeing 787-800 belonging to United Airlines was forced to make an emergency return last Friday
#Jan.25.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football. For the children of the Nigerian diaspora, displaced by war and split between two worlds, footballers from John Fashanu to Jay-Jay Okocha were a first glimpse of themselves in Britain’s mainstream
#Jan.23.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Scores killed in central Nigeria after fuel tanker flips over and explodes – video. Those who died had scrambled to take the fuel, which has rocketed in price amid an economic crisis
#Jan.18.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Seventy killed in central Nigeria after fuel tanker flips over and explodes. Those who died had scrambled to take the fuel, which has rocketed in price amid an economic crisis
#Jan.18.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘I was crying, there was no anaesthesia’: the fight for legal and safe abortion in Nigeria. In a country where thousands die every year from unsafe procedures, and rape is shockingly high, campaigners must overcome strict laws and religious beliefs, as well as misinformation and stigma
#Jan.13.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × ‘To confront the anti-gay law is to trouble waters’: the young Nigerian novelist refusing to go by the book. Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s first novel, Blessings, about love in a hostile climate, was written after a life-changing encounter with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#Jan.10.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × Death and the King’s Horseman: the return of Wole Soyinka’s enduring mystery. The Nigerian Nobel laureate’s story of a royal servant condemned to kill himself after his master’s death has lost none of its enigmatic appeal
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages. With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. × The Long Wave: From the Met Gala to Afcon, 2025 promises to be a bumper year. New Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Michael Jackson biopic and more brilliant Black art and culture coming your way in the next 12 months
#Jan.01.2025 ×
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