One of Africa’s foremost historians, Professor Toyin Falola, holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. In this interview by LASISI OLAGUNJU, Professor Falola answers questions on the American involvement in Nigeria’s anti-terror war, the Almajiri system, theContinue Reading
On the eve of the reported United States military strike on Nigeria on Christmas Day, Nigerians awoke to yet another deeply troubling development—this time from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a statement that provoked widespread alarm, Netanyahu publicly pledged Israel’s commitment to “protect Christians in Nigeria,” a declaration thatContinue Reading
The wars ignited by Israel in 2025 and in the years preceding it have not subsided, nor have their fires been extinguished. They continue to rage in Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Iran, and Yemen. Their repercussions have not eased in Sudan, Libya, and the wider HornContinue Reading
Amid the occupation’s recognition of what is known as Somaliland, the separatist region in northern Somalia that had maintained secret contacts with the occupation, historical documents have resurfaced once again, revealing efforts by the Jewish Agency, with the assistance of Britain and the United States, to establish a state forContinue Reading