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From Zaria to Lagos, Yakubu spent three days. Along the way, he hoped, ate, and even stepped aside to relieve himself. Home had become a stronghold of terrorists who rustled cattle, kidnapped residents, and cut farmers off from their harvests. Even children, Yakubu recalled, openly carried weapons in Funtua, the area where he grew up …
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In 2025, HumAngle’s journalism did more than document suffering caused by conflicts in Nigeria, Congo, and Sudan, and other African countries, or analyse climate-driven disasters and evolving extremists in Nigeria and the Sahel; we also shaped destinies, shifted policies, and reopened pathways to justice and dignity for people long abandoned by the system. Across Nigeria’s …
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When Wura Hope paints her nails, she paints her prosthesis too. Pink glows on her dark skin like fine art. But her right foot is pale, yellowish-tan, the generic colour of many imported prosthetics. It contrasts with her melanin-rich skin and does not offer the aesthetics she desires. Wura is a model, fashion designer, and …
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As Yusuf collects plastic from the floating streets of Lagos’ Makoko, memories of his wife bring home back to him. Together, they used to attend wedding parties in Makoda, Kano State, North West Nigeria, where he grew up and worked on his father’s rice farm before kidnappers changed everything. He remembers them as masked, armed …
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On her screen, Zoom was loading. In her eyes, tears were swelling. Sophia Muoneke was in turmoil. She had been following up on a job with a Hong Kong company for a while. When she eventually secured an interview, she went all out: studied possible questions, paid for internet, charged her laptop, tested the internet …
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From his home, Idowu Usu can tell when someone has died in the lagoon. Among fishermen in Ago Egun, a community in the Yaba area of Lagos, South West Nigeria, there is a belief that the dead announce themselves with a sudden wind. Even in the stillness of the dry season, such a wind may …
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“So what?” Richard Martin, a US-based pan-Africanist, shot back on LinkedIn, dismissing another user who dared to call a trending speech of Burkina Faso’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, by its real name: a deepfake. It was the kind of fiery anti-imperialist speech delivered by Muammar Gaddafi at the United Nations in 2009. “You ask, …
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That year, the world seemed cursed. Naira was crashing against the dollar, and the price of a 50 kg bag of rice was nearing ₦50,000. Politicians, crisscrossing the country ahead of the general elections, offered no real answers to kidnappings, terrorist killings, and gunmen violence. At Christ High Commission, a church in Ekiti, South West …
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No one recalls the road to Wawa. New detainees are blindfolded several kilometres ahead. Inmates are also blindfolded and driven out before release. It was July 27, 2021. Eleven people returning to South East Nigeria after the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), at the Federal High …
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In December 2014, an incumbent president lost a re-election bid for the first time in Nigeria’s history. It was a time characterised by widespread anguish and anger at how insecure the Nigerian life had become. Boko Haram, the extremist insurgent group fighting to establish what it calls an Islamic State, had intensified its violence, killing …
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