Issue 06

Stopped by a Nigerian Policeman

Three Nigerians, in three different years, in three different places, meet a Nigerian policeman. They never make it home.

What 99 Letters Tell Us About the Intimate Lives of Nigerian Women in the 1970s

What has changed in fifty years, and what remains the same?

Whatever Happened to Bill Friday?

One foreign trip changed everything for a 1950s Nigerian superstar.

The Nigerian Ponzi King of 1991

How did one man con almost half a million Nigerians?

Editor’s Note: On the Margins of History

Each story in this issue will light up corners of Nigeria’s past we often overlook.