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…
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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.
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Gynocentric Lenses: Deconstructing Gender-Based Violence from Kenyan Soap Operas
by Susan Kung’u and George Gathigi
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 of social issues framed in a feminist narrative.
Book Reviews
A Review of Ruth Murambadoro, John Mashayamombe, and uMbuso weNkosi (eds.), The PhD Experience in African Higher Ed…
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.
Special Issue: 2023 Nigerian Elections
The Overlooked Spoilers Beclouding Nigeria’s 2023 Elections
by Titilope Ajayi
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 factors will shape the elections’ outcomes. In this piece, I reflect on the texture of the sociopolitical space in which Nigeria’s 2023 elections will occur, […]
Special Issue: 2023 Nigerian Elections
A Goal-Means Analysis of Security in Political Parties’ Manifestos for Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election
Special Issue: 2023 Nigerian Elections
Nigeria’s 2023 Elections: Which Way Democracy?
by Gbemisola Animasawun
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 1999.
Special Issue: 2023 Nigerian Elections
2023 Presidential Elections and Nigeria’s Humanitarian Crises
by Oluwaseun Kugbayi
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.
Special Issue: 2023 Nigerian Elections
2023 Presidential Elections Pollsters and the Risk of Post-Election Violence