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Elizabeth Pisani has been doing the junket since her book, the Wisdom of Whores, was released. Reviews , and interviews galore. The book, I ...

You've obviously seen the pictures coming out of South Africa. A cloud appears to have descended over the Rainbow Nation as the indigen...

The evil that (wo)men do.

Dimeji Bankole on HardTalk Unfortunately, I can't give a personal opinion on this... But "smug" would definitely be one of my ...

Bellview flight 1833 landed at Murtala Muhammed Airport at about 5.30am, local time. From the air, Lagos was a sea of black. The odd street ...

For the first time, I'll end up spending more time outside Lagos than in. Got to Lagos in one piece, then flew out to Port Harcourt stra...

...made it. Writing this from duty free. The only way I can miss this flight is if I fall asleep because I'm just blooming exhausted. Be...

...make the flight. Got close to the front of the queue, before being told they had reached the magical number of 199, or something. I was m...

...make this Bellview flight. What the hell, it cost £430. The two Virgins were attempting and failing to seduce me in the £700 range. BA wa...

As a result of this evening's events , I've started a Facebook group - Super Eagles to Super Chickens . The aim is to petition for t...

Despite this , Nigeria are still useless.

"Shut up there, what do you know about football? All you people know, is to fight." The little corner of the canteen at work erupt...

No, I'm not in Ghana. I should have gone with the Beeb, but as you all know, Auntie a broke-ass organisation. They decided to run a seri...

It's 1927hrs in Doha, and I'm sitting in transit. My flight to Gatwick doesn't leave till 0210hrs, and right now that feels like...

Over time, I seem to have developed a system of comparing countries I visit to the countries I know best. If I visit a developing country (w...

Landed this morning in Kathmandu. The city is surrounded by mountains - the Himalayas. They look like gods looming over a pious population, ...

As I type this, I'm sitting in one of the waiting areas at Doha International Airport, en route for Kathmandu, Nepal. The connection is ...

Africa and the European Union finished their "parlay" (Nigerian hack mode...) on Sunday. The most dramatic event didn't even ...

Today's Observer has a harrowing piece on child witches in parts of Nigeria. The children are beaten and bound - treated like animals. I...