Nigeria

Benin Bronzes on exhibit at the British Museum.

Germany plans to return looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Will other countries follow suit?

Arts

For many inside and outside of Africa, the Benin Bronzes are symbols of colonialism and exploitation, and they’ll stay that way until they’re returned.

Nigerian Femi Kuti sings into a microphone

Femi Kuti and Made Kuti continue Afrobeat legacy in two-part album

Music

Chinua Achebe

Arts, Culture & Media

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Arts, Culture & Media

360 Staff Pick: Little Bee

Arts, Culture & Media

1970s Psychedelia: West African Style

Arts, Culture & Media

With perfect BBQ weather already here, it’s an ideal time to dig out your kaftan and get some world music tunes pumping on your stereo. And there’s no one better at making you want to groove and grill than ‘Sir’ Victor Uwaifo. The ‘Sir’ is entirely unofficial, but both he and his fans believe he […]

Nigerian women on a dinghy approaching Sicily

Witchcraft can be the toughest chain to break for Nigerian women looking to escape slavery

Jobs

Despite hundreds of millions spent combatting sex trafficking, many Nigerian women say it is fear of a demonic spell that keeps them enslaved.

Members of the #BringBackOurGirls (#BBOG) campaign embrace each other at a sit-out in Abuja, Nigeria May 18, 2016.

The Chibok girls are still in custody, and their parents are still desperate

Conflict

About 100 kidnapped Chibok girls have been released, but they still don’t get to go home.

Ladi, Glory and Mary, three of the escaped Chibok girls, stroll through the gardens of the American University of Nigeria, in Yola, Nigeria. They've received scholarships to go to school at AUN.

Some of the Chibok girls are getting an education and a new future

Education

Boko Haram means “western education is forbidden.” But some of the Chibok girls who managed to escape the extremist group are getting that forbidden education.

Woman sitting at desk while on phone, with computer screen behind

Black and Muslim, some African immigrants feel the brunt of Trump’s immigration plans

Justice

The White House’s immigration policy targets people in the criminal justice system — whether or not they are convicted of crimes — and will likely most affect refugees and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries. Many of the members of African Communities Together are part of all of those groups.