Tag / Nigeria
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The Borders Around Our Own Empathy
When a suicide bomber detonated at an arena concert in Manchester in May 2017, it shook America to its bones. A little more than a week later, when a car bomb exploded at a busy market in Kabul, Afghanistan, America merely shivered. Terrorist attacks are ubiquitous and hard to keep up with, and an individual’s…
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Where did the Girls Go?
In the United States, women earn well over half of the bachelor’s degrees awarded each year. They represent nearly 50 percent of the workforce. Through extensive STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) programs and heavy encouragement, women’s participation in science and math as a whole (though still far less than their representation in the population)…
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Nigeria’s Nadir
Nigerians presently face a huge decision regarding their upcoming presidential election. The incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will try to maintain his party’s dominance which dates back when the nation resumed democratic elections in 1999. However, he faces Muhammadu Buhari, a former Nigerian military dictator in the 1980s, whose popularity…
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Around the World
Of Journeys and Apathy Recently, there was a story in the news of an Afghan teenager who fled his troubled homeland eight years ago to seek asylum in London. His extraordinary modern-day odyssey saw him travel illegally in a truck through Moscow, Eastern Europe and Paris en route to his final destination. The fairytale wasn’t…
