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Regions Africa West Africa Nigeria

Nigeria

Editor’s Pick

ISSUE: July/August 2022

Nigeria’s Second Independence

Why the Giant of Africa Needs to Start Over

Uzodinma Iweala

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Nigeria Is Boiling

Ebenezer Obadare

WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa: Beyond Fake News

Nicolas van de Walle

Nigeria’s Democratic Malaise

Nigeria’s Unfulfilled Promise

Nigeria’s Second Independence

Uzodinma Iweala

Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

Nicolas van de Walle

Insurgency and War in Nigeria: Regional Fracture and the Fight Against Boko Haram

Nicolas van de Walle

Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls

Nicolas van de Walle

Does West Africa Need a Single Currency?

Eswar Prasad, Vera Songwe

The Giant of Africa Is Failing

John Campbell, Robert I. Rotberg

Don’t Call Nigeria a Failed State

Fola Aina , Nic Cheeseman

What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule

Nicolas van de Walle

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Lawrence D. Freedman

Climate Change Doesn’t Have to Stoke Conflict

Tarek Ghani , Robert Malley

Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years

Nicolas van de Walle

Africa’s Democratic Moment?

Judd Devermont, Jon Temin

Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle

The Deadliest Conflict You’ve Never Heard of

Udo Jude Ilo, Ier Jonathan-Ichaver, 'Yemi Adamolekun

Can Nigeria Solve Its Energy Crisis?

Todd Moss, Judd Devermont

Nigeria’s Troubling Counterinsurgency Strategy Against Boko Haram

Vanda Felbab-Brown

How Nigeria’s Oil Industry Went Local

How Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crackdown Harms Local Economies

Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle

Nigeria’s Suffering Civilians

Boko Haram’s Resilience

This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime

Nicolas van de Walle

Nigeria’s Window of Opportunity

Michael W. Baca, Lisa Inks

Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle

The Wives of Boko Haram

Nigeria’s Breaking Point

Nigeria’s Unbalanced Budget

Unbroken Boko Haram

Hilary Matfess, Peter M. Lewis, Nathaniel D. F. Allen

Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century

Nicolas van de Walle

Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle

From a Curse to a Blessing

Guillaume Arditti

Down, Not Out

Nathaniel D. F. Allen, Peter M. Lewis, Hilary Matfess

After Boko Haram

Jason Warner, Michael W. Baca

Goodluck’s Run Out

Hope Springs in Nigeria

Nigeria’s Countless Casualties

Kelly M. Greenhill

How Inequality Fuels Boko Haram

Good Luck, Jonathan

Let There Be Light

Todd Moss, Benjamin Leo

Africa's City on a Hill

Beating Boko Haram

Isobel Coleman, Sigrid von Wendel

Reforming Nigeria

Authority Stealing: Anti-corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-military Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle

Unhealthy Practice

Leonard S. Rubenstein

Surging São Tomé

Gerhard Seibert

The End of Nigeria's Strike May Not Calm Oil Markets

To Battle Nigeria's Boko Haram, Put Down Your Guns

Judging Nigeria's Election Season

John Campbell, Asch Harwood

Nigeria on the Brink

Nigeria's Rigged Democracy

Jean Herskovits

Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria

Gail M. Gerhart

In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy

Gail M. Gerhart

Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and Litigation between Oil Companies and Village Communities

Gail M. Gerhart

Home and Exile

Gail M. Gerhart

Africa's Ailing Giant: Chaos Reigns in Nigeria

The Impossible Necessity of Nigeria: A Struggle for Nationhood

Oil and Socioeconomic Crisis in Nigeria: A Regional Perspective to the Nigerian Disease and the Rural Sector

Gail M. Gerhart

Fractured History: Elite Shifts and Policy Changes in Nigeria

Gail M. Gerhart

The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa

Gail M. Gerhart

International Trade: Issues Regarding Imposition of an Oil Embargo Against Nigeria

Nigeria, Africa, And The United States: From Kennedy To Reagan

Gail M. Gerhart

Isara: A Voyage Around "Essay."

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker

The Nigerian State

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker

Nigeria And The International Capitalist System

John de St. Jorre

The Brutality of Nations

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker

Nigeria Update

Africa: The Old and the Unexpected

David Martin, Phyllis Johnson

Nigeria in Search of Democracy

Africa Beset

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker

Facing Up to Africa's Food Crisis

Democracy in Nigeria

Jean Herskovits

Nigeria: Africa's New Power

Jean Herskovits

One Nigeria

Jean Herskovits

The New Africa

Elements of a Nigerian Peace

Joseph C. McKenna

Man and Myth in Political Africa

Russell Warren Howe

Essentials for Nigerian Survival

Nigeria Looks Ahead

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

The New African Profile

Chief H. O. Domes

How Deep the Split in West Africa?

Native Policy in East Africa

Frederick D. Lugard

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