Adéwálé Májà-Pearce

In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adéwálé Májà-Pearce delivers a mordant verdict on Nigeria’s crisis of democracy. A mosaic of ethnic and religious groups, the most populous country in Africa was fabricated by British colonisers at the turn of the twentieth century. When Nigerians went to the polls to vote in the 2023 elections, they had experienced a...

An acclaimed British-Nigerian writer's odyssey through West Africa, starkly transformed since his youth. West Africa is at a crossroads. Boasting tremendous natural wealth, its inhabitants are among the world's poorest. Despite apparent multi-party democracy, there have been coups, conflict, and corruption since independence. Where can it go from here? Journeying along the coast and across the Sahel, from Ghana to...