Her “Maria Ake Kit,” born from a deep well of empathy, is more than a collection of essentials, it is a cradle of hope for mothers and newborns

There are a few countries where lawyers and courts are as gifted in twisting judicial pronouncements as those in Nigeria. It is not merely the wigs and gowns, relics of a colonial past, that make the courtroom forbidding. It is the language, especially Latin, that often turns justice into an elaborate puzzle, hiding meaning in plain […]

By DANIEL ALABRAH On February 13, 2020, less than 24 hours before the scheduled inauguration of a new governor in Bayelsa State, a five-man panel of the Supreme Court of Nigeria delivered a verdict that altered the state’s trajectory. In a pronouncement many still call a “divine miracle,” Senator Douye Diri was declared the rightful winner […]

By Anthony Iwelumo Judging from hospital screening rooms to language classrooms, artificial intelligence (Al) is quietly rewriting the rules of industries that touch billions of lives. And while the headlines tend to focus on Silicon Valley giants and billion-dollar funding rounds, some of the most consequential work is being done by researchers connecting Al to […]

Before a plane lifts, before a border is crossed, the essay situates us in a mind already in transit—restless, questioning, uncertain