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The Yoruba Carver Who Made Colonial Power Look Human

Thomas Ona Odulate’s wooden figures still invite a difficult question. Was he mocking the British, or was he simply carving the world that colonial Nigeria placed before his eyes?The answer is not simple, and that is why his work remains important. Odulate’s carvings of colonial officers, missionaries, European couples, soldiers, lawyers, doctors and other...

MILITARY ERA

Before the Coup: The Beijing Photograph That Placed Babangida Inside China’s Theatre of Power

The Untold Public Service of Mamman Kontagora

Mohammed Shuwa: The Civil War General Whose Death Exposed Nigeria’s New Security Crisis

The General Who Survived Nigeria’s Civil War, Then Fell in Maiduguri

Donald Dick Etiebet and the Three-Month Rule That Ended With a Coup

The Leaders, the Photograph, and the Fall of Nigeria’s Second Republic

Buhari, the Golden Eaglets, and Nigeria’s 1985 Triumph in China

When Soldiers Ended Shagari’s Republic And Returned Nigeria To Military Rule

MILITARY ERA

Before the Coup: The Beijing Photograph That Placed Babangida Inside China’s Theatre of Power

The Untold Public Service of Mamman Kontagora

Mohammed Shuwa: The Civil War General Whose Death Exposed Nigeria’s New Security Crisis

The General Who Survived Nigeria’s Civil War, Then Fell in Maiduguri

Donald Dick Etiebet and the Three-Month Rule That Ended With a Coup

The Leaders, the Photograph, and the Fall of Nigeria’s Second Republic

Buhari, the Golden Eaglets, and Nigeria’s 1985 Triumph in China

When Soldiers Ended Shagari’s Republic And Returned Nigeria To Military Rule

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BIOGRAPHIES

The Yoruba Carver Who Made Colonial Power Look Human

The Yoruba Woodcarver Who Carved Colonial Nigeria Into Memory

The Yoruba Woodcarver Who Saw Colonial Nigeria Differently

Majek Fashek: The 1988 Moment That Turned a Reggae Singer Into Nigeria’s Rainmaker

The Beans Seller of Sapon: How Madam Janet Odesola Became a Yoruba Symbol of Prudence

Samuel Okwaraji: The Scholar-Footballer Nigeria Never Forgot

Adamu Fika: The Wazirin Fika and the Civil Service Battle of 1988

Joseph Garba and Jesse Jackson: The 1987 UN Meeting That Put Apartheid Before the World

MILITARY ERA

Before the Coup: The Beijing Photograph That Placed Babangida Inside China’s Theatre of Power

The Untold Public Service of Mamman Kontagora

Mohammed Shuwa: The Civil War General Whose Death Exposed Nigeria’s New Security Crisis

The General Who Survived Nigeria’s Civil War, Then Fell in Maiduguri

Donald Dick Etiebet and the Three-Month Rule That Ended With a Coup

The Leaders, the Photograph, and the Fall of Nigeria’s Second Republic

Buhari, the Golden Eaglets, and Nigeria’s 1985 Triumph in China

When Soldiers Ended Shagari’s Republic And Returned Nigeria To Military Rule

CIVIL WARS

Mohammed Shuwa: The Civil War General Whose Death Exposed Nigeria’s New Security Crisis

The General Who Survived Nigeria’s Civil War, Then Fell in Maiduguri

Angelica Oyediran and the Quiet Work of Returning Biafra’s Displaced Children

Adekunle Fajuyi and the July 1966 Crisis

Why Ojukwu Declared Biafra After Killings, Fear, and the Collapse of Nigeria’s First Union

The Nigerian Civil War and Why Its Memory Still Divides Nigeria

Why Many in Eastern Nigeria Stopped Believing Nigeria Could Protect Them After 1966

The Igbo Pogroms of 1966

PRE-COLONIAL NIGERIA

The Ijebu Chief Whose Cloth Revealed the Power of Oshugbo

The Standard of Ibadan War and the Worship of Oranyan Before Jalumi

Igbodigo’s Obagberume Stool and the Royal Title Now Shaping Ikale History

Oba Michael Kuye Arójòjoyè II and the Royal Reawakening of Ijebu-Jesha

Yoruba Civilisation Did Not Begin With 14th Century Oyo

Ilori the Osi and the Ibadan Crisis at Jalumi

When Ibadan Entered Ikirun, Akirun Oyebode’s Relief Marked a Critical Moment in the Jalumi War

When Ilori Fell at Jalumi, The Ibadan Victory That Almost Became a Disaster

NIGERIAN HISTORY

The Yoruba Carver Who Made Colonial Power Look Human

The Yoruba Woodcarver Who Carved Colonial Nigeria Into Memory

The Yoruba Woodcarver Who Saw Colonial Nigeria Differently

Majek Fashek: The 1988 Moment That Turned a Reggae Singer Into Nigeria’s Rainmaker

The Beans Seller of Sapon: How Madam Janet Odesola Became a Yoruba Symbol of Prudence

Samuel Okwaraji: The Scholar-Footballer Nigeria Never Forgot

Before the Coup: The Beijing Photograph That Placed Babangida Inside China’s Theatre of Power

Adamu Fika: The Wazirin Fika and the Civil Service Battle of 1988

DEMOCRATIC NIGERIA

Ilojo Bar: The Lost Lagos Landmark That Exposed Nigeria’s Heritage Crisis

Sunday Best in 1974 Lagos: Bruno Barbey’s Photograph of Faith, Fashion and Urban Respectability

The African Diplomatic Pressure Behind Mandela’s Rivonia Sentence

Nigeria, 1964: The Photograph That Revealed a Nation’s Battle for Books

Umuahia’s National War Museum and the Burden of Nigeria’s Civil War Memory

Fred Ajudua and the Decades Long Fraud Trial That Tested Nigeria’s Justice System

IMB Plaza, The Lagos Glass Landmark That Survived as Number One Lagos

Makurdi’s Old Benue Bridge and the Crossing That Changed Movement Across the River Benue

INDEPENDENCE

Shagari, Ambrose Alli and Bendel’s Battle Over Federal Revenue

Flora Azikiwe and the Quiet Burden of Nigeria’s First First Lady

How the Sokoto Caliphate Reshaped Hausa Political Identity

Al-Kanemi and the Survival of Borno in the Age of the Sokoto Jihad

The Nigerian Engineer Who Helped Write the Nation’s Anthem and Built a Global Academic Legacy

Mbari Club, Ibadan and the Rise of Nigeria’s Modern Cultural Renaissance

How Awolowo Tried to Hold Nigeria Together, Through Federalism, Regions, and Real Development

What True Federalism Would Mean in Nigeria Today

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