An Encroaching Desert Intensifies Nigeria’s Farmer-Herder Crisis

by Kúnlé AdébàjòConflict, Environment, JournalismPosted on No Comments

By Kunle Adebajo and Murtala AbdullahiPhotography by Kunle Adebajo and Murtala AbdullahiVisualizations by Yuxi Wang and Jillian Dudziak A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. An intravenous line sticks out from his right arm and an arrow from his left shoulder. A second arrow, with the tip now detached from its shaft, rests on a …

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How Civil Wars Start and Lessons for Today’s Nigeria

by Kúnlé AdébàjòConflict, ReviewsPosted on No Comments

‘Civil wars ignite and escalate in ways that are predictable; they follow a script,’ writes author Barbara F. Walter. How close are developments in Nigeria to this time-tested script? For decades, social scientists have researched factors which, combined, best predict that a country will experience civil war. Nigeria ticks a lot of the boxes. Wars …

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