Resolving the Omo Onile land-related crisis in Lagos, Nigeria
Part of the crisis threatening peace in Africa is the struggle over land and natural resources. This crisis is rooted in a series of structural, historical, and socioeconomic factors. It is also driven...
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Bolsonaro’s Victory Is Likely to See Brazil Scale down Africa Interests
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. His first son is a senator for the state of Rio do Janeiro. His second son a municipal...
View ArticleWomen in Terror: Ending Gender-Based Violence in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria
This think-piece discusses findings from a recent field trip to Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria related to my research project supported by the African Peacebuilding Network.1In commemoration of 16 Days...
View ArticleOne Year After: Has the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Act...
Even in its infancy, it is already clear that Zimbabwe’s National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), created by the National Peace and Reconciliation Act of 2018, does not have enough...
View Article“Who Debates Epp?”
“Epp” is a slang word used by Nigerian youth meaning “help.” In other words, the title asks: “who have debates helped?” Since their popularization in the United States in 1960, televised political...
View ArticlePolitical Campaigns in the 2019 Election: Economic Debate Takes a Backseat
Nigeria’s 2019 general election is taking place against the backdrop of the country’s gradual exit from an economic recession. Yet, questions about economic recovery and growth have not been seriously...
View ArticleNot Ready to Run? Youth and Nigeria’s 2019 General Elections
Youth inclusion in democratic processes has gained global attention, buoyed largely by the emergence of young leaders in Canada, France, and North Macedonia. Youth representation and inclusion in...
View ArticleBullets and Ballots: Exploring Insecurities and the 2019 Elections in Nigeria
The 2019 general election in Nigeria scheduled for February 16 (president and national legislators) and March 2 (governors and state assembly members) will be the sixth election since the return to...
View ArticleSecurity Agencies and the 2019 Elections in Nigeria
Despite two decades having passed since the return of democratic governance in much of Africa, elections are still controversial and involve high levels of violence in some countries. In Nigeria,...
View ArticleThe International Community and Nigeria’s 2019 Elections
As Nigeria moves closer to its sixth general election since the return to civilian rule in 1999, its electoral process has once again come under intense scrutiny both locally and internationally. As...
View ArticleWomen and Nigeria’s 2019 Elections
“How can a woman be our president? What happened to all the men in Nigeria?” Usman Bala Abubakar, civil servant, December 2018 “We cannot have a situation where women will continue to remain as mere...
View ArticleDisplaced but not Disenfranchised? IDPs and the 2019 Nigerian Elections
This article examines the inclusion and exclusion of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria’s upcoming elections on February 16 and March 2. It proceeds on the basis of Section 26 (1) of...
View ArticleSpecial Issue: Nigeria’s 2019 Elections in Perspective
On February 16, 2019, eighty-four million Nigerian voters will have the chance to elect their next president before returning to the polls to elect state governors and members of the national assembly...
View ArticleThe Postponement of Nigeria’s 2019 Elections: Is Democracy on Hold?
At about 2:30 am on February 16, 2019, five hours before the polls were due to open, the chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, announced in a press...
View ArticleRepeating Past Failures: Nigeria’s Election Umpire and the Legacy of Poll...
By 2:30 am in the morning of February 16, 2019, less than six hours before the polls were scheduled to open, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu,...
View ArticleThe Postponement of the 2019 Nigerian Elections: Implications for Democracy,...
This article explores the implications—for democracy, peace, and security—of the postponement of Nigeria’s 2019 elections, initially set for February 16 (presidential and national assembly) and March 2...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Electoral Management in Nigeria
Following the successfully administered 2015 elections and years after the tumultuous electoral process of 2007, expectations were high that Nigeria had finally turned the corner.1see also J. Shola...
View ArticleSpecial Issue: Perspectives on the Postponement of Nigeria’s 2019 Elections
The postponement of Nigeria’s elections, just hours before the commencement of voting on Saturday last week, sent shockwaves across the country and beyond. Many people were concerned not just about the...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s Cyber-Shutdown: A Counterproductive Economic Decision or a...
On Friday, January 18, 2019, news media announced that Zimbabwe had followed in the DRC’s footsteps by forcing internet providers to block access to the internet completely, an escalation of the...
View ArticleUnderstanding Selfhood among Young People Who Were Born Out of Genocide Rape...
One Saturday afternoon in 2013, I was at home in Kigali, Rwanda watching television when I randomly came across a documentary by filmmaker Ingeborg Beugel on Al Jazeera English. The film, titled...
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