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#YNaijaEssays: It’s been 100 years of breakthroughs in Sickle Cell care, but we still have a long way to go
Sometime in 1910, a young black dental student Walter Clement Noel from the island of Grenada studying in Chicago had gone to see Dr James B. Herrick, a cardiologist, complaining…
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#YNaijaEssays: Will Nigerian entertainment ever grow up?
It has been 89 years since the world’s first television broadcast. It may not have looked like the future then, with its grainy images and limited reception, but the small box…
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#YNaijaEssays: Forget about religious extremism, Nigeria’s real problem is ‘I beta pass my neighbour’
Recently, a video surfaced of Nigerian designer, Tope Abiola of Frock it and Rock it where she suggested that instead of Lagos Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode investing in capital projects, he…
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The YNaija Cover – the 22nd of August
Follow the links to read the stories and analyses on YNaija:
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#YNaijaEssays: It is time we squared up and deconstructed the concept of childhood
Over the weekend, a tweet with an image from a children’s book was shared widely on Nigerian Twitter. Picture courtesy of @childbodysafetyng on Instagram. These days, it's vital that as…
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#YNaijaEssays: A written history of Nigeria’s great film epochs
If we're being factually accurate, then Nigeria’s first contact with film was in 1903 when Herbert Macaulay invited Balboa and Company who was then doing an exhibition tour of silent films…
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#YNaijaEssays: The West wants the spoils of colonialism, guilt free and served on a platter, but if Africa will progress, there has to be a reckoning
As a presidential candidate, Macron painted a striking picture of a progressive thinker on western imperialism and other sundry African issues. He termed French colonisation a “crime against humanity” suggesting…
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#YNaijaEssays: Music is always political and protest music especially so
Falz’s This Is Nigeria seems to have become the de-facto counterpoint to Childish Gambino’s genre-bending self-examination as a black musician transitioning into mainstream spaces and having his identity suddenly become…
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#YNaijaEssays: Robbery and Fraud – Nigeria’s favourite side hustle
Last weekend, the internet went crazy about Yahoo boys, after information surfaced on the internet that some suspected yahoo boys had been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
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#YNaijaEssays: The intrigue, drama and politics of #BBNaija (READ)
As we are down to the last week of Big Brother Nigeria’s third season that has been trailed with controversy and conspiracy theories, sex and outrage. Why does Big Brother…
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#YNaijaEssays: These four Nigerian women have defied the odds
Nina Simone’s life and legacy looms across the world, and indeed Africa, to which she returned when she was at her lowest, disillusioned by racism and classism and misogynoir. Reports…
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#YNaijaEssays: How does an opposition party rise to prominence?
The beauty of democracy is not exactly in the numbers or in the outcome of an election, but in watching the alternative prevail over the norm, in having a new…
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#YNaijaEssays: Donald Trump has found an unlikely ally in Nigeria
The man who promised to drain the swamp The single most polarising event in the last decade happened over the course of two days in November 2016. After months of…
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#YNaijaEssays: Joro Olumofin, Oloni, are part of literature’s most profitable industry
Before ever Joro Olumofin and his motley crew of assistants ever thought to put out that first Instagram post doling out advice to anonymous inquirers, John Dunton a British author…
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#YNaijaEssays: Beggars are all around us but do you really see them?
Lagos is besieged by beggars There is a slight wrinkle in Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s plans to transform Lagos into mega city beggars. Nigeria has seen a steady influx of refugees…
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#YNaijaEssays: Ignored by the government and abandoned by its famous sons, chaos is brewing in Nigeria’s Middle Belt
The North’s Hidden Belt In contradiction with its famous slogan, ‘Food Basket of the Nation’, Benue’s lands have been haemorrhaging blood for the better part of Governor Samuel Ortom’s administration.…
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