This article explores the key issues related to voter suppression and the overall integrity of the 2023 general elections in Nigeria.
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Artisanal Oil Refineries or Kpo-fire: A New Dimension of Petro-Insurgency in Nigeria’s Oil Producing Niger Delta Region?
by Justin Eduviere Agheyisi
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 across the region.
Africa
Celebrating Every Effort to Build Peaceful Societies: The Experience of Two Peace Clubs in Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Yumbe District, Uganda
by Danson Sylvester Kahyana
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.
APDD Dispatches
Against Mystification: Toward a Creative Practice of Writing
by Asher Gamedze
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 exists in academic publications.
Essays
Taking on the Big Elephant in the Room? Nigeria after the 2023 General Elections
by Charles Ukeje
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 a blind eye to the excesses of the country’s political class and how they deliberately undermine democracy and governance priorities.
Book Reviews
A Review of Ruth Murambadoro, John Mashayamombe, and uMbuso weNkosi (eds.), The PhD Experience in African Higher Education (London: Lexington Books, 2022).
by Rosette Sifa Vuninga
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.
Essays
Researching Community Engagement Against Violent Extremism: Lessons from the Field in Northern Ghana
by Hippolyt Pul
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 into Ghana.
