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Take a seat, you are now in the village square. Enjoy!
“Our hybridity is one of our biggest advantages.” Su’eddie Agema

  A book festival in Makurdi? In these days of Boko Haram and insecurity? Jeez! You’ve got guts. This is our first reaction, though it is almost immediately replaced by awe, when we see the Instagram post announcing the inaugural Benue Book and Arts Festival. However, like the toad that does not run in the daytime for nothing, we dare the odds and end up having a refreshing time, learning and unlearning from and with other literature and culture…

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She’s bent on changing the world
Jacintha Bent, Nigerian feminist

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari recently courted controversy for describing his nation’s youth as lazy and dependent. Jacintha Bent is a bright young thing whose work challenges that notion. She tells Osemome Ndebbio why the women of her country  must hold their half of the sky. Jacintha, we have followed your *blog and read your works for a while now. They are quite engaging. Tell us more about yourself and what inspired you to research women’s issues? Thank you very…

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Children of Dapchi and Education in Northern Nigeria

          In this opinion-editorial, Rotimi Olawale writes from Abuja, Nigeria highlighting the effect of terrorism on the worsening state of education in Northern Nigeria. There is something unrivaled about our collective sense of outrage as Nigerians. It does not exist. I could wage a bet that our gene for outrage has long been isolated and smashed. Some of the reactions to the recent release of the Dapchi girls leave ashes in the mouth. For anyone…

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