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The Naira Redrawn

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By Yemisi Aribisala
| Flaming Hydra
(trans. 'iilaa tajdid: “to renew”) It’s noteworthy that we’ve never had a Nigerian woman—dead or alive—on front face of the Nigerian legal tender, on the Naira note; there’s been only one woman historical figure on our legal tender, that is Ladi Kwali the potter, on the back of the 20 Naira note. Nigerians, in the first instance, don’t have a say or veto on whose image will appear on our currency.
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Elder James Must Die!

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By Yemisi Aribisala
| Flaming Hydra
Power has been conceived throughout Nigeria’s history partly in spiritual terms and the spiritual domain is one in which power is actively contested. —Stephen Ellis Since Scottish Presbyterians and Portuguese Catholics came to the place later to be called Nigeria, and insisted on the wholehearted and unquestioning conversion of the indigenes to monotheism, eschewing all ancestral gods, West Africans learned to respond diplomatically.
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Born in the USA

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By Yemisi Aribisala
| Flaming Hydra
I visited a friend who was babysitting some relatives’ children, one Saturday afternoon 23 years ago. During the course of the visit, the children began to fight. One little boy had been called Nigerian, and as a consequence had become very offended. It emerged that they’d been discussing the countries of their birth, and the matter of their own citizenship.
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