01 March 2010 Nigeria: Pentecostal boom—healing or reflecting a failing state? It has been a puzzle why evangelicals, and particularly Pentecostals, have long had a presence in Africa, and especially Nigeria,... Read more
28 December 2008 Religion in Africa: Nigeria becomes a powerhouse of evangelical filmmaking While religious and especially conservative Christian themes may be controversial in Hollywood, the large and growing film industry in Nigeria... Read more
07 February 2003 Africa: Christian retaliation increasing in Nigeria’s religious violence Seventeen Christians from various church denominations in Aba, a city in Nigeria’s southern Abia state, were arrested in late January... Read more
01 November 2002 Nigeria: first Shari’ah flogging in the South A 29 year-old man became the first person in southern Nigeria to be punished under Islamic law when he was... Read more
26 April 2002 The Shari’a debate: religion and politics in Nigeria – Interview with Rosalind I. J. Hackett Born in Birmingham, England, Rosalind Hackett is Professor at the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Tennessee in... Read more