In the public imagination shaped by traditional media, Northern Nigeria is often portrayed through a narrow lens. Poverty, insurgency, forced marriages, and religious extremism are what many ascribe to the North. While these issues do ...

For many West Africans, standard English is a language of institutions, schoolbooks, and officialdom. It is the language of banks, police reports, embassies, and evening news anchors. It carries weight but often lacks warmth or ...