A girl walks past a wall painting depicting the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram in the north-east town of Chibok, on the day Nigerians mark the 11th anniversary of the abductions, Lagos, #Nigeria
Photograph: Sodiq Adelakun/Reuters
A notorious bandit kingpin and 100 of his suspected followers have been killed in a joint military operation in northwest Nigeria, authorities say. Read more from @BBCNews
Nigeria has banned a song critical of the country’s President, Bola Tinubu, from being broadcast on radio and TV. Read more from @dw
https://flip.it/MKjGen
#Nigeria #Music #President #Politics #Africa #Tinubu
@thecontinent has a guest post this week from the Harare Review of Books. Here’s a review of Freda Epum’s memoir, “The Gloomy Girl Variety Show,” a book about the Nigerian-American writer and artists’s search for belonging in Tucson, Arizona. “Epum may call herself a gloomy girl, but she is cool to hang out with in these pages. Her memoir is lively, sometimes sad, and always vulnerable. And she is upbeat, if somewhat wry. It’s a raw, beautiful and deep work,” the review concludes.
https://continent.substack.com/p/review-gloom-to-manoeuvre
#Nigeria #Tucson #Arizona #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Memoirs #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
@aral well, the Nigerian scammers are actually from #Nigeria, and Nicole's *real* name is candy 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX7_U7PoBcU #PoI #personofinterest
New blog post: I started sharing images & info from out-of-print book #NigerianPottery which contains photos of pots I haven't seen anywhere online, particularly with this level of regional detail.
I’m hoping access to such visual archives might inform contemporary practice – both for those reconnecting with heritage and anyone invested in global ceramic histories. Will be adding to this gradually as I work through the material.
British Nigerian artist Karl Ohiri was shocked to hear that many photographers in Lagos, Nigeria, burned their old negatives, so he embarked on a project to develop whatever he could find. Here, @thecontinent shares some of the photos that form the Lagos Studio Archives.
https://continent.substack.com/p/photo-essay-old-lagos-new-light
From @BBCNews: “For many years, well-off Nigerians have sent their children to prestigious British boarding schools — but now some of those institutions are setting up campuses in Africa's most populous nation.”
Kürzung der US-Hilfen: Mediziner sorgen sich vor Tuberkulose-Ausbreitung
Tuberkulose ist noch immer weltweit verbreitet. Ohne die US-Hilfsgelder sehen Mediziner den Kampf gegen die Infektionskrankheit um bis zu 20 Jahre zurückgeworfen - mit verheerenden Folgen auch für Europa. Von Karin Bensch.
