Reading Time: 6 minutes Yahoo boys, babalawos, money rituals. If these terms don’t already mean anything to you, brace yourself—we’re venturing into hard territory. Nigeria is a West African country with two-thirds of the US population packed into less than a tenth of the territory. And there, in recent months, a perennial cycle of violent rituals thought to bring […]
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Humanists Denounce the Charges Brought Against Mubarak Bala
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is from the AHA: The American Humanist Association rejects the validity of the charges announced against the President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, Mubarak Bala. On August 3, 2021, Bala was charged with 10 counts of causing a public disturbance in connection to “blasphemous” Facebook posts he is alleged to have made over […]
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Humanists Call for the Release of Mubarak Bala after 365 Days of Detention
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is from the AHA: On the one-year anniversary of the illegal detention of Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, the American Humanist Association (AHA) joins 89 organizations and concerned individuals across the globe in publishing an open letter addressed to the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, seeking Bala’s immediate release. Adding […]
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘in village massacre’
Reading Time: 2 minutes Boko Haram at it again. Sheesh. Fundamentalism. BBC: Northern Nigeria is under emergency rule, but attacks have intensified Suspected Islamist militants have raided a Nigerian village and murdered dozens, according to witnesses. The gunmen reportedly rounded up a group of men in Izge village and shot them, before going door-to-door and killing anyone they found. […]