- Britain and Nigeria
Exploitation or Development?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Some of Nigeria's most prominent progressive historians have combined to write a coherent and organized account of the economic relationship foisted on Nigeria by the British colonial occupation. The authors stress, in particular, the wider consequences of the destruction of indigenous institutions, and the relationship of the colonial era with present-day economic distortions and political instability.
- Close to a Thousand Nigerian Girls Freed, Many Malnourished or Pregnant
Resource Type: Article
Thousands of Nigerian former hostages are liberated, a large number of them were malnourished or pregnant.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Library: Africa Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
- Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
With the deadline for the full implementation of Wilmar's 'No peat, no deforestation, no exploitation' promise, the oil palm giant is keen to push its green image in Europe. In Nigeria however, forest and farmland continue to be destroyed.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Files Open New Window on $182-Million Halliburton Bribery Scandal in Nigeria
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
British lawyer facilitated bribes through secret Swiss HSBC accounts in his name and names of family members; revelations may place Nigerian government under pressure.
- Fundamentalists target Twitter and Facebook in unprecedented move
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders deplores the ruling by an Islamic court ordering a Nigerian human rights group, the Civil Rights Congress, to close its blog and stop hosting debates on Twitter and Facebook about the use of amputation to punish theft.
- Information increasingly a rare commodity in Nigeria
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders is alarmed about the glaring gaps in domestic news coverage in Nigeria in the run-up to the 14 February presidential election, especially in the northeastern state of Borno.
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- The Man Died
The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Nigerian media seek to cope with Boko Haram threat
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
This spring, everyone who knew of Adeola Akinremi's plans to travel to northeast Nigeria to report on the tens of thousands displaced by Boko Haram told him to be extremely careful. Some urged him not to go at all. But Akinremi, features editor of the independent daily ThisDay, was set on telling the victims' stories and he set out for Adamawa state the first week of May.
- The Nigerians Who Dare to Speak of Love as a Tide of Anti-gay Hatred Rises
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A new crackdown on gender minorities has led to arrests and fears of mob violence. But a brave few are still fighting for sexual freedom.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- £1bn a month: the spiralling cost of oil theft in Nigeria
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
It's a crime with international repercussions, and second only to the drugs trade for the money it earns. And it threatens to destabilise Africa's second-largest economy.
- The Rise and Fall of Nigeria's Second Republic, 1979-1984
Resource Type: Book
The result of a year's intensive investigations before the coup that toppled the Shagari government, this work is a comprehensive account of the past four years of civilian rule in Nigeria. This book analyses the social and economic forces underlying the sweep of political events, and accelerating contradictions that precipitated the latest coup. Falola and Ihonvbere are two of Nigeria's leading marxist historians and writers.
- The Socialist Register 1967
Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1967
- Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
- A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
An exploration of Nigeria, with focus to the effect the oil industry has had on the country.
- There Was a Country
A Personal History of Biafra
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A coming of age account, set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, or the Biafran War, of 1967-1970.
- The Wheat Trap
Bread and Underdevelopment in Nigeria
Resource Type: Book
This book examines how bread, introduced as a luxury in colonial Nigeria, has become the cheapest staple food, and how Nigeria is now caught in a "wheat trap": the need to import increasing quantities of the grain, but - with failing oil revenues - a declining ability to finance them. The authors examine the oil-boom policy of unrestricted food imports and its effects on domestic food production.
- Which Way Africa?
The Search for a New Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Davison sets out to analyze the social, economic, political motives, myths, ideas, and beliefs which ounderlie modern African nationalism.
- Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced with such atrocities, we can often do little but reach for adjectives such as 'barbarous', 'depraved', or even 'evil'. But what is it that makes people act in such depraved, evil ways?
- World Minorities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
An account "of the plight today and the problems of some of the world's oppressed minorities".
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