For those living in Ottawa, I will be speaking about Nigeria and my book tomorrow morning at Carleton University as part of its CSDS speaker series. Details are:
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
9:30 – 11:00 pm
Dunton Tower, Room 2017
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People wait in line at a registration centre in Abuja January 15, 2011. (Afolabi Sotunde/Courtesy Reuters)
A soldier stands guard as people walk past a signboard of a church along a road in Nigeria's central city of Jos December 26, 2010. (Afolabi Sotunde/Courtesy Reuters)
Members of Ivory Coast's Young Patriots youth movement take part in a demonstration to show support for incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo near the U.S. embassy in Abidjan January 25, 2011. (Thierry Gouegnon/Courtesy Reuters)
Women with children walk near a soldier of Darfur's joint U.N./African Union UNAMID peacekeeping force outside the UNAMID team site in Khor Abeche, 83 km (52 miles) northeast on Nyala (south Darfur), January 10, 2011. (Albert Gonzalez Farran/Courtesy Reuters)
Two recently issued reports from the International Crisis Group (ICG) and the Center for International Policy’s Global Financial Integrity program (GFI) provide insight into Nigeria as it prepares for national elections in April 2011.
The ICG report is a sophisticated analysis of Northern politics, ethnicity and religion in the North, which I highly recommend. Read more »
As the Giant of Africa now turns its attention to country-wide presidential elections, the contest is shaping up to be dangerous and destabilizing, pitting a Christian candidate against a Muslim candidate — a competition Nigerians have always tried to avoid. Perhaps for the first time, Nigerian presidential elections will matter because the leading candidates are identified with rival regions and religions, identities more important to Nigerians than their national one. Read more »
A boy walks through a mass grave of victims of religious riots in Nigeria's central city of Jos December 27, 2010. (Afolabi Sotunde/Courtesy Reuters)
Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe addresses the Steve Biko memorial ceremony in Cape Town on the 25th anniversary of the activist's death in police custody, September 12, 2002. (Mike Hutchings/Courtesy Reuters)
A U. N. Senegalese peacekeeper looks on during the visit of Alain Le Roy (not pictured), under-secretary-general for Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations at the Golf Hotel, headquarters of Alassane Ouattara, in Abidjan December 27, 2010. (Thierry Gouegnon/Courtesy Reuters)
Africa in Transition signals the most important political, security, and social developments occurring in sub-Saharan Africa.
This is a guest post by Brooke Bocast, a PhD candidate in anthropology at Temple University and a visiting predoctoral fellow…
This is a guest post by Emily Mellgard, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relations Africa Studies program. Demand…
The University of KwaZulu-Natal has announced that starting next year, all entering students must study Zulu. Zulu is spoken by…
At the Mali Donors Conference in Brussels on May 15 the United States announced $32 million in new humanitarian assistance…
This is a guest post by Dr. Deirdre LaPin, co-author of Securing Development and Peace in the Niger Delta (Woodrow…
Former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria John Campbell explores Nigeria's postcolonial history and examines the events and conditions that have carried this troubled giant to the edge.
Kintunde Akinleye/Courtesy Reuters
The interactive Nigeria Security Tracker documents and maps violence motivated by political, economic, or social grievances.
