...other gatekeepers. Nigerians’ sensitivity to the perils of traveling-while-Nigerian was piqued in September 2013 when hundreds of Muslim Nigerian women who had flown to Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj...
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On democratic despond
by Ebenezer ObadareBy Ayandaabeke (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia CommonsFinal Destinations A few years ago, I noticed that an unusually high number of well-placed Nigerians were being reported in the...
Salafism in Nigeria: An introduction

...spread in Nigeria. As noted above, the Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia was a key institution for canonization and for disseminating Salafism. In northern Nigeria, a Muslim-majority part...
What kind of territory? On public religion and space in Ethiopia
by Tom BoylstonEthiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died shortly before the 2012 Meskel festival, the Finding of the True Cross—one of the major festivals of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Its public centerpiece...
Shari’a, Family, and Democracy
by Jessica Polebaum...examine the possibilities for a peaceful reconciliation to the ongoing contestation over Shari’a in Nigeria in the area of family law law–and the lessons that Shari’a in Nigeria may hold...
Interfaith dialogue in Nigeria
by Laura Duane...which they discussed the nature of religious conflict in Nigeria, and the future of interfaith dialogue: The two leaders are often forced to act as theological firemen, putting out the...
Religious Violence in Nigeria
by Laura DuaneIn response to the recent violence between Muslims and Christians that took place in northern Nigeria, the Nigerian Daily Sun ran two op-eds on the entho-religious roots of this violence....
Conversion and race in colonial slavery
...Philip and the Ethiopian from Acts 8. This story recounts Philip’s journey into Ethiopia, where he met and baptized an Ethiopian eunuch. The missionaries were fond of the story of...
Religious conflict in Nigeria?
by David SloaneAt GlobalPost, Heather Murdock explains that, for locals, conflict between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria’s “Middle Belt” is not entirely about religion: Both Muslims and Christians in Jos are quick...
Africa and free/hate speech
...Plateau State in Nigeria, alight because of strong, negative stereotyping disseminated in speech or writing. In South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria, the harm of hate speech is an ever-present...