During an appearance on Head-to-Head on Al Jazeera on March 7, Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser on Policy Communication to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, argued that Nigeria’s insecurity must be understood within its “context.” Yet for many Nigerians, the lived context is unmistakable: a country where kidnappings, bandit attacks, insurgent violence, and mass killings have become recurring features of daily life.…
❝ Online debates in Nigeria rarely reflect the complexity of the Middle East; centuries of shared history are reduced to memes, and religion itself is wrongly cast as the enemy.” — Augustine Ikenna Anwuchie According to BBC News (22 November 2025), renewed Israeli airstrikes killed 22 Palestinians in northern and central Gaza on Saturday—bringing the post-ceasefire death toll to more…
L'accusation est terrible : le spectre du génocide contre les chrétiens. Cette revendication inflammatoire, initialement nivelée par le gouvernement des États-Unis contre le Nigeria, a ricoché dans les médias internationaux, amplifié par des chiffres comme le sénateur américain Ted Cruz. La préoccupation n'est pas nouvelle ; elle remonte au moins à la réunion du président Donald Trump de la Maison Blanche 2018 avec le président de l'époque Muhammadu Buhari, où Trump aurait...
The story of Paul, a 30-year-old former Catholic, reveals what Gen Z thinks of Christianity in Africa today. For him, the Church no longer speaks to his pain. “Going to church is for fools,” he said. “The Church exploits the poor while clergy dine with corrupt politicians.” When reminded of Church schools and hospitals as agents of charity, he replied,…
My journey to the Republic of Niger started in silence. When I told my family I was leaving for a mission, the room grew cold, as if a funeral had begun. The next Sunday, when I shared the news with my parishioners, their reaction was even sharper: the congregation burst into tears. Their fear stemmed from the dominant media narrative:…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Sept. 7, 2025) – In a powerful declaration from the Africa Climate Summit, the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has framed the escalating climate crisis as a dual “moral and ecological emergency,” demanding that the world’s wealthiest nations honor their climate finance obligations to a continent suffering disproportionately from a problem it did…
Il y a quelques jours, j'ai appelé le P. Alain Mugasho, un compagnon de mission. Bien que séparés par des kilomètres, notre conversation a révélé une expérience commune qui fait le pont des continents et des déserts. Tout comme au Niger, au Sahel et au Sahara, le christianisme prospère en Algérie. Bien qu'il fût à des milliers de kilomètres de chez moi à Maradi, en République du Niger, et à 2 000 km...