Arts International - AI Magazine

Wole War III: Nigeria's Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, battles on
"If we can't hang people from the nearest lamppost, I can at least hang them symbolically on the stage. That's the instrument I have available to me."
[Spring 2002]

Lagos Logic: What It Takes To Produce A Play In Nigeria
Dozie Atueyi needed money. His play was opening in two days. He had printed and sold tickets, begged sponsors, booked ads, and plastered the streets of Lagos with posters...
[Fall 2001]

San Francisco Chronicle

Former rebels on Sierra Leone ballot
Voters hope civil war is truly over
[May 13, 2002]

Stoning sentence widens Nigeria's religious divide.
The case of a woman sentenced to death by stoning is threatening to set up a showdown between the Nigerian government and a growing number of Muslim-dominated states that have imposed a strict form of Islamic criminal law. [December 21, 2001]

MotherJones.com

Nigeria's Vigilante Justice
Fed up with soaring crime and ineffective police, Nigerians are embracing vigilante groups -- despite their murderous methods.
[April 25, 2002]

L'Espresso

Nigeria senza fine
La competizione era considerata un grande evento turistico Cosa nasconde la faida tra musulmani e cristiani scatenata dalla gara di bellezza. In un Paese scosso da miseria, corruzione e crescita demografica senza controllo
[May 12, 2002]

Safiya: il mio calvario
Divorziata. Insidiata da un cugino. Violentata e messa incinta. Quindi arrestata e processata secondo la legge islamica.
[January 24, 2002]

Women's E news

Final Decision Expected in Nigerian Stoning Case
A court's decision to execute a woman for adultery has fueled controversy over Nigeria's version of Islamic justice. Now an influential Islamic body hopes to stop the country's planned ratification of numerous U.N. conventions protecting human rights.
[March 18, 2002]

Nigerian Teens Flood Italy's Sex Market
Nigerian women, many of them teen-agers, now make up the largest percentage of illegally trafficked sex workers in Italy. Albanian teens are now joining them. The Italian government is trying to assist them in leaving this dangerous industry.
[January 21, 2002]

Micro-Loan Programs Expand, Key Questions Remain
Women are two-thirds of the world's 1.2 billion people living on less than $1 a day. Tiny micro-credit loans improve their lives, but experts debate whether micro-lending will help more people by becoming profitable or by remaining largely subsidized.
[November 26, 2001]

Women Sweep Appointments for Key Nigerian Court
One of every five Africans is Nigerian, yet the continent's largest nation has lagged behind many others in one key measure--the advancement of women. Now, in what may be a breakthrough, 17 out of 25 Lagos state court judges are women.
[October 8, 2001]

Global Education of Girls Is Key to Development
It's back to school everywhere, but uneducated girls continue to swell the ranks of the world's 1 billion illiterate adults--two-thirds of them women. Of 100 million children worldwide between 6 and 11 who are not in school, 70 percent are girls.
[September 24, 2001]