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The New African Order

Amaka Anku
Essay

Nigeria Is Boiling

Ebenezer Obadare
Snapshot

WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa: Beyond Fake News

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Nigeria’s Democratic Malaise

Amaka Anku
Snapshot

Nigeria’s Unfulfilled Promise

Amaka Anku
Snapshot

Nigeria’s Second Independence

Uzodinma Iweala
Essay

Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Insurgency and War in Nigeria: Regional Fracture and the Fight Against Boko Haram

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Does West Africa Need a Single Currency?

Eswar Prasad, Vera Songwe
Snapshot

The Giant of Africa Is Failing

John Campbell, Robert I. Rotberg
Snapshot

Don’t Call Nigeria a Failed State

Fola Aina , Nic Cheeseman
Snapshot

What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Lawrence D. Freedman
Capsule Review

Climate Change Doesn’t Have to Stoke Conflict

Tarek Ghani , Robert Malley
Snapshot

Nigeria’s Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Africa’s Democratic Moment?

Judd Devermont, Jon Temin
Essay

Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The Deadliest Conflict You’ve Never Heard of

Udo Jude Ilo, Ier Jonathan-Ichaver, 'Yemi Adamolekun
Snapshot

Can Nigeria Solve Its Energy Crisis?

Todd Moss, Judd Devermont
Snapshot

Nigeria’s Troubling Counterinsurgency Strategy Against Boko Haram

Vanda Felbab-Brown
Snapshot

How Nigeria’s Oil Industry Went Local

Matt Mossman
Snapshot

How Nigeria’s Boko Haram Crackdown Harms Local Economies

Hilary Matfess
Snapshot

Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Nigeria’s Suffering Civilians

Hilary Matfess
Snapshot

Boko Haram’s Resilience

Hilary Matfess
Snapshot

This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Nigeria’s Window of Opportunity

Michael W. Baca, Lisa Inks
Snapshot

Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The Wives of Boko Haram

Hilary Matfess
Snapshot

Nigeria’s Breaking Point

Hilary Matfess
Letter From

Nigeria’s Unbalanced Budget

Hilary Matfess
Snapshot

Unbroken Boko Haram

Hilary Matfess, Peter M. Lewis, Nathaniel D. F. Allen
Snapshot

Nigeria: A New History of a Turbulent Century

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

From a Curse to a Blessing

Guillaume Arditti
Snapshot

Down, Not Out

Nathaniel D. F. Allen, Peter M. Lewis, Hilary Matfess
Snapshot

After Boko Haram

Jason Warner, Michael W. Baca
Snapshot

Goodluck’s Run Out

Matt Mossman
Postscript

Hope Springs in Nigeria

Matt Mossman
Snapshot

Nigeria’s Countless Casualties

Kelly M. Greenhill
Snapshot

How Inequality Fuels Boko Haram

Seth Kaplan
Snapshot

Good Luck, Jonathan

John Campbell
Snapshot

Let There Be Light

Todd Moss, Benjamin Leo
Snapshot

Africa's City on a Hill

Seth Kaplan
Snapshot

Beating Boko Haram

Isobel Coleman, Sigrid von Wendel
Snapshot

Reforming Nigeria

Authority Stealing: Anti-corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-military Nigeria

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Unhealthy Practice

Leonard S. Rubenstein
Snapshot

Surging São Tomé

Gerhard Seibert
Snapshot

The End of Nigeria's Strike May Not Calm Oil Markets

John Campbell
Snapshot

To Battle Nigeria's Boko Haram, Put Down Your Guns

John Campbell
Snapshot

Judging Nigeria's Election Season

John Campbell, Asch Harwood
Snapshot

Nigeria on the Brink

John Campbell
Snapshot

Nigeria's Rigged Democracy

Jean Herskovits
Essay

Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and Litigation between Oil Companies and Village Communities

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Africa's Ailing Giant: Chaos Reigns in Nigeria

Marcus Mabry
Review Essay

Home and Exile

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

The Impossible Necessity of Nigeria: A Struggle for Nationhood

Crawford Young
Review Essay

Oil and Socioeconomic Crisis in Nigeria: A Regional Perspective to the Nigerian Disease and the Rural Sector

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Fractured History: Elite Shifts and Policy Changes in Nigeria

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

International Trade: Issues Regarding Imposition of an Oil Embargo Against Nigeria

Gail Gerhart
Capsule Review

The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Nigeria, Africa, And The United States: From Kennedy To Reagan

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Isara: A Voyage Around "Essay."

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Capsule Review

The Nigerian State

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Capsule Review

Nigeria And The International Capitalist System

John de St. Jorre
Capsule Review

The Brutality of Nations

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Capsule Review

Nigeria Update

Larry Diamond
Essay

Africa: The Old and the Unexpected

David Martin, Phyllis Johnson
Essay

Nigeria in Search of Democracy

Larry Diamond
Essay

Africa Beset

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Essay

Facing Up to Africa's Food Crisis

Carl K. Eicher
Essay

Democracy in Nigeria

Jean Herskovits
Essay

Nigeria: Africa's New Power

Jean Herskovits
Essay

One Nigeria

Jean Herskovits
Essay

The New Africa

Guy Hunter
Essay

Elements of a Nigerian Peace

Joseph C. McKenna
Essay

Man and Myth in Political Africa

Russell Warren Howe
Essay

Essentials for Nigerian Survival

Nnamdi Azikiwe
Essay

Nigeria Looks Ahead

Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Essay

The New African Profile

Chief H. O. Domes
Essay

How Deep the Split in West Africa?

David Williams
Essay

Native Policy in East Africa

Frederick D. Lugard
Essay
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