Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has infused his movement with a Jewish sectarian identity in a country riven by tensions between Christians and Muslims. Is he putting Nigeria’s Igbo Jewish community at risk?
A powerful account of the April 14, 2014, Boko Haram mass kidnappings in Chibok, Nigeria, also provides a cautionary tale about what happens after the celebrity tweeting stops
The world is determined to look away from a horrific campaign of killings being perpetrated in Africa under the name of Islam
The Nigerian (soon to be American) writer on racialism, postcolonialism, and inequality—and the power of literature
Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday grapples seriously, if inconclusively, with religion’s propensity to both uplift and imperil
The militant group Boko Haram is far more audacious than even this recent horrific, and unresolved, mass abduction lets on
Plus high in the Holy Land, journey to Jerusalem, and more
I win a bet, but do not rejoice
