Sixty years on, the morning of January 15, 1966 still reverberates across Nigeria, but most painfully in the North as one of the darkest ruptures in our national journey. On that day, a fledgling ...

In the early 1950s, as Nigeria approached independence from Great Britain, a vibrant literary culture developed in the vast and lively market of Onitsha, a city on the eastern bank of the Niger River.

Ahebi Ugbabe made history as the first and only female king in colonial Nigeria. She shattered gender norms, becoming the first woman to serve as a warrant chief, rule as king in an Igbo kingdom, and ...