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Sexual abuse is about predation and power and the Fatoyinbo spectacle exposes the dark side of Nigeria’s Pentecostal ‘erotic economy’ with omnipotent pastors perched grandiosely atop.

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In the Niger Delta region, which is associated with crude oil extraction and production, the marginalization of the host communities by oil companies has historically fueled non-violent and violent protests...

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That the youth want to break the cycle of violence through storytelling and performance  shows their resolve to be active agents in determining and shaping their future.

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Digital Sovereignty is the call for greater strategic autonomy and self-determination in relation to technology.

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It would be a position of untold arrogance and bourgeois mystification to assume that this mode of thinking is only accessible to academics and that this mode of writing only...

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To support Nigeria, her international friends must avoid the temptation of placing their national economic, strategic, and geo-political interests ahead of the political rights and welfare of Nigerians by turning...

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These gynocentric soaps are named after women and portray social issues involving women, rather than men. The titles, themes, and plots of the soap operas are based on the construction...

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In the end, the book is more about the silences it produces around the power dynamics between the researcher, the researched, and the higher educational institutions in (South) Africa.

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Although data analysis is ongoing, research-based observations and insights from study communities are already very instructive regarding the state of unpreparedness of frontier communities to prevent or counter VE infiltration...

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As Nigeria’s February 2023 elections draw nearer, interest and debate are naturally intensifying around possible outcomes and the future fortunes of different presidential candidates. As significant as this is, multiple...

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Since Nigeria’s return to democratic rule in 1999 after decades of military authoritarianism, Nigerian politics have been characterized by different issues, especially weak infrastructure, poverty, and crises in the economic...

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Nigerians will reaffirm their democratic vows by trooping to vote on February 25 and March 11, 2023, in the third civilian-to-civilian transition since the inception of the Fourth Republic in...

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In the face of worsening humanitarian crises across the country, it has been predicted that the 2023 presidential election will be the most challenging in the history of Nigeria.

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