Ghulf Genes

A sub-theme of my posts on Boko Haram is to show how little we know about places like Nigeria—particularly its fringes where insurrectionar...

In the 1500s the town of Badagry in Nigeria, some 40 miles west of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, became one of earliest slave ports supplyi...

This is the second post on Boko Haram; the first is here . The seventh largest country in the world is Nigeria, with 183.5 million peop...

A thought I’ve had over the years is that today—and presumably fated to last for a few centuries more—a process will be unfolding right und...