As socio-medical phenomena, epidemics are revealing of the cultures in which they are experienced. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa exposes antecedent tensions between state and society, and, on a broader canvas, between the global north and south. As a contribution to the emerging literature on the social ramifications of HIV/AIDS, this article examines the saga of...

This article examines the changing role of religious organizations in the dynamics of the public sphere in Nigeria, and does so both in the light of the recognition of the growing importance of faith-based organizations across the continent, and within the framework of the discourse on religion, civil society and the public sphere. It argues that this is indeed an ...

In the immediate aftermath of '9/11', it took very little for the axiom that adherents of evangelical Christianity and reformist Islam inhabit discrepant, permanently warring publics to solidify. With the very air laden with 'the clash of civilizations', the dominant narrative quickly became one of mutual antagonism, in which both religions were positioned as irrec...

[Le sexe, la citoyenneté et l’État au Nigeria : l'Islam, la Chrétienté et les luttes émergentes autour de l'intimité.] Dans cet article, j'utilise la belligérance vers des sexualités alternatives au Nigeria comme un point de départ pour une évaluation critique des termes de l'inclusion ou de l'exclusion de l'organe politique du pays. Cette belligérance a mené à une...

As post-military ?democratic? regimes across Africa perpetuate norms and practices that were characteristic of the previous openly authoritarian era, humour and ridicule have emerged as a means through which ordinary people attempt to deconstruct and construct meaning out of a reality that is decidedly surreal. In Nigeria jokes serve a double function as a tool for...

Home historically to a politically engaged youth sector; Nigeria has, over the past two decades, withnessed a growing incidence of religious extremism involving educated youth, especially within university campuses. For all its important ramifications, and despite the continued infusin of social and political activity in the country by religious impulses, this phen...