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At a safe house where they're undergoing psychosocial support, the wives of Boko Haram fighters share stories of the men they married.
Nigerians Ask Where Millions For Safe Schools Program Is Being Spent
As the terrorist organization Boko Haram continues to launch attacks on schools and kidnap students, Nigerian activists are calling on lawmakers to investigate the multimillion dollar Safe Schools Initiative and how the funds have been used.
The App That Saved 1000 Children
In 2010, health workers discovered an outbreak of lead in northern Nigeria, induced by improper gold mining. Thousands of people were exposed to the life threatening toxin.
Young Rwandans Seek To Reshape Narrative About Their Country
Young people want to change the narrative from the 1994 to what Rwanda's new generation is doing today.
Why Young Africans Need To Know About Their History
In 1967, the land of my birth- southeastern Nigeria- collapsed into a battlefield: Nigeria versus Biafra. Most of the Biafrans were like me, Igbo. However, I grew up with no knowledge of this crucial history.
Love In A Time Of Fear: Albino Women's Stories From Tanzania
Grace Medaldi looked for love in a relationship with a man who threatened her when she got pregnant. “It will be unto you if you give birth to a child like you,” she says he told her. The “like you” was a reference to Grace’s skin.
Cultivating Hatred, Breeding Violence
In Nigeria's Kaduna state, conflict between Christian farmers and Muslim cattle herders fuels deadly attacks.
Deadly Nomad Versus Farmer Conflict Escalates In Nigeria
Roaming Fulani cattle herdsmen are being accused of launching deadly raids against farming communities and targeting Christians.
Executions, Beatings and Forced Marriage
There is a house in Gulak, with a neem tree out front and a well in the back. Inside, dozens of women and girls spent days, weeks and even months waiting for a chance to escape their captors.
Are Blacks Abandoning Christianity For African Faiths?
The placement of fallen fragments of coconut helped William Jones decide on whether or not to go to graduate school. The Yoruba priest that Jones had invited into his Brooklyn apartment had examined the four coconut pieces.
In The Land Of Nigeria's Kidnapped Girls
On Monday morning, May 12, I sat in the backseat of a Toyota Corolla, headed to Chibok. With a satin abaya draping my body in a sheath of black, and my hair curled underneath a black chiffon hijab.
Preserving a 'Poor Man's Sport' In Nigeria's Capital
Just off the expressway that links the Italian stoned mansions in the Nigerian capital of Abuja’s pricey “Minister’s Hill” neighborhood to the settlements of corrugated tin roof shacks in the outskirts, is a nondescript path.
Nigeria's Igbo Jews: Lost Tribes of Israel?
A Shabbat service is underway at the Ghihon Hebrew Research synagogue in the Jikwoyi suburb of Nigeria's federal capital territory.
Mothers lay their daughters on mattresses, spread their legs as wide as “Vs,” push their fingers inside their daughters’ vaginas and measure the depth of entry into the soft mounds of flesh.
How I Escaped Marrying A Boko Haram Fighter
Boko Haram entered Sabon Gari village about 7 p.m. We heard gunshots. The shots sounded like thunder, so the children were jumping and smiling and singing, “Let the rain come, let the rain come.”
Chibok: The Village That Lost Its Daughters To Boko Haram
Asabe Kwambura is getting tired of waiting. Sitting under a young mango tree alongside the charred remains of her school, the headteacher looks around nervously.
A Close Encounter With Boko Haram
On my second visit to Chibok, I slept with a machete tucked between the headboard of the bed and the dresser, wondering if the reddish stains on the blade were rust or blood.
Nigerians Displaced By Boko Haram Feel Disenfranchised By Their Government
For Dauda Musa, voting in Nigeria’s upcoming election is not a choice between candidates; it is one between life and possible death. The 31-year-old is from Chibok, the largely Christian town where almost 300 schoolgirls.
The Lost Children Of Boko Haram
Rose Wakulu is exhausted. Yet the 25-year-old sits upright on a wooden chair in an abandoned school classroom, breastfeeding her 28-day-old nephew Ibrahim. Boko Haram fighters killed his mother and twin.
Gay Nigerians Targeted As 'Un-African'
Fourteen years ago, at the age of 19, Ifeanyi Orazulike could no longer ignore his affections for men. "I had these funny feelings that I could not explain," he says. As the feelings evolved into a full-fledged attraction for the same sex.
I got a job in New York City a few years ago. I was new to the American North; I still reeked of the South. Pillsbury biscuits, Georgian peaches and Jiffy cornbread with a dollop of Daisy. Chick-Fil-A, Bojangles’ and Piggly Wiggly.
Black Mormons Weigh Obama-Romney Match Up
"Bull. One simple word. I'd put the other word behind it, but we don't talk that way." That's how Don Harwell responded when I asked if he felt compelled to support President Obama - a fellow African-American - in 2012.
Sheik Zakzaky: Through The Eyes of His Followers
Millions of followers of the controversial Shia cleric Sheik Zakzaky say he stands for justice. Shrouded in mystery, Zakzaky is usually heard but not seen.
50 Years On: Nigeria's Biafra Secessionist Movement
On Biafra Remembrance Day, we ask pro-secessionist leader Nnamdi Kanu if the call for secession is growing louder.