Lagos

Read Aloud With Me While We Violently Overthrow the Government
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Dakar: The Fine Line Between Gay and Homo
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The Last Days of the President’s Pet Parliament
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A Freedom Fighter at Rest, and At Ease With Her Own Contradictions
From Bastião
Ethiopia, Too, is a Gift of the Nile
From The Reporter, Al Ahram,Addis Standard

For Lepers in China, Sickness of the Fathers is Visited Upon the Children
From Global Times
Our Man in Beijing: Or Is He Theirs?
From Global Times
A Showy, Capitalist Christianity Faces The Bulldozer in Wenzhou
From Global Times
Baby Bust
From Global Times
The Bitter Truth is that China Doesn’t Need You
From Rue89

The End of Cash in India?
From Outlook
Bilingual, Bipolar, and Deeply Schizophrenic: Diagnosing Pakistan’s Press
From Tanqeed
Checkpoint Beard
From Tanqeed
Who Needs Toilets Anyway?
From Hardnews
The Radical Vegetarians Are Coming For Your Steak Knives
From Open Magazine

How Erdogan Lost the Referendum by Winning
From Istanbul
Turkey: Stop Worrying and Just Learn to Love ISIS
From Istanbul
God Alone Can Fix Turkey’s Schools, Apparently
From Istanbul
Rule of Law in Turkey Becomes Rule by Decree and Denunciation
From Istanbul
The Gulenists Are Everywhere!
From Istanbul

Like an Occupying Army, Egypt Battles its Own Citizens in the Sinai
From San Francisco
A Map of War Without End
From San Francisco
The Prince Who Only Charms Journalists
From Al Akhbar
Invasion as Investment Opportunity: Emirati Capital Follows Its Troops into Yemen
From Al Safir Al Arabi
Confronting Goliath, a Yemeni David
From Al Akhbar

A Stranger in the Family Tomb
From Sachsische Zeitung
The Israel Method? Actually That’s a Euphemism.
From Orient XXI
The Bastard
From N'Appartenir
I, Salafi!
From Rue89
Fishing for Refugees East of the Rhine
From Rue89

In Rio de Janeiro, A Red Wedding For Organized Crime
From El Pais Brasil
Rio, My Purgatory of Beauty and Chaos
From Rio de Janeiro
The Hero of Fort Apache
From Seattle
When The USA Took My Mother Away
From Fronterad
The Goldman Murders
From Seattle

Lagos

In Lagos, Deporting Fellow Nigerians…To Nigeria

Street vendor, Lagos. Photo Glenna Gordon.

From Punch, Vanguard, P.Times, Ghana Spy

In Nigeria, the press calls it the ‘internal deportation’ scandal: police in Yoruba-dominated Lagos round up dozens of supposedly indigent people of Igbo ethnicity in sweeps. After long periods of detention and mistreatment, they are shipped across the country, back to the states that are ‘their homeland.’ A startling glimpse into Nigeria’s struggles with urbanization, ethnic conflict; and perhaps a window into the ethnic warfare that came with the birth of the country.

On Wednesday, some 70 beggars and other people described as homeless.

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Last Flight For Okada Air?

Okada riders, Lagos, Nigeria. Photo CC.

From Tell Magazine

Getting around in Nigeria’s crowded cities is taxing, with crushing traffic jams and public transportation systems that have collapsed or never existed. In their thousands, then, people take an Okada airlift: you pay a few cents to jump on the back of a blatting motorcycle, spitting oily smoke, to be whisked to your destination by the agile piloting of a young driver.Blamed for horrifying rates of road injuries and fatalities,choking pollution and criminality,Nigerian cities are banning thr Okada taxi one after another.Scenes from Benin City, one of the Okadas’s last bastions.

Evidently, the love between the teeming commercial

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