“As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern crypto investigations. Then at Binance, he got trapped between the world’s biggest crypto exchange and a government determined to make it pay.”
Nigeria
Posted inEditor's Pick
Love in the Time of Sickle Cell Disease
“What’s the cost of rolling the genetic dice?”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Old World, Young Africa
“Part one of a series on how the youth boom is changing the continent, and beyond.”
Posted inFeature
Inside the World of Nigerian “Yahoo Boys”
Could Carlos Barragán find the person who conned his mother?
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Jacaranda Nigeria Limited
“In the ’80s, a group of Black American journalists went to Nigeria to train reporters. The trip did not go as planned.”
Posted inNonfiction
If My Scars Could Talk
Tega Oghenechovwen contemplates the ways in which acute childhood trauma can infect and compromise relationships later in life.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
After Three Children, Reclaiming My Body and My Mind
In the wake of childbirth and postpartum complications affecting her mental health and her marriage, Ukamaka Olisakwe picks herself up and starts over — in grad school.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
An Igbo Slaver’s Descendants Reckon With History
Adaobi Tricia Nwaumbani reveals her Igbo great-grandfather’s history with the transatlantic slave trade.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Mind the Dog’s Feet
After a trip to Durban, novelist Chibundu Onuzo discovers that Nigerians are not always popular with South Africans, and that where some black South Africans see a history of oppression, Nigerians see opportunity.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Mind the Dog’s Feet
After a trip to Durban, Chibundu Onuzo discovers that Nigerians are not always popular with South Africans, and that where some black South Africans see a history of oppression, Nigerians see opportunity.