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[Since 2015] "...a platform to promote the accomplishments of Nigerians globally and as an agency with the precise purpose to empower a young generation of Nigerians. We are committed to ensuring that Nigerian youths are not victims of a dismal education system but are discovered and mentored so that they can be agents of change themselves."
--See especially: History -and- Business & Technology

A commercial site that contains useful information on the history and manufacturing techniques of adire cloth and other textiles of western Nigeria; plus links.

This is a commercial site for mostly Nigerian video films.

"The Book Buzz Foundation is a non-governmental organisation...we organise a yearly (six-day) festival of arts and books..."
--See especially: 2019 Programme

***Warning: there is often a delay of more than 6 months before an update is posted. An online cultural magazine that is "unlocking the secrets of Nigeria cultural heritage." The site includes current and recent news, feature articles on artists, writers, and various aspects of Nigerian cultural life, and in-depth interviews since 2014.

"AROCSA was founded in September 2015 [originally] in Accra, Ghana, under the auspices of the Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), with the support of the Ford Foundation, to promote and advance a community of excellence in research and practice on civil society in the service of African development."

A video about this past exhibition on sculptures from the historical kingdom in Nigeria.

Since December 2007: "The centre provides a platform for the development, presentation, and discussion of contemporary visual art and culture. It seeks to create new audiences and to prioritise media such as photography, film and video, performance and installation art which have been under-represented in Nigeria."

The site offers general information about the centre and numerous articles by its scholarly members---including Prof. Yusufu Bala Usman of the Department of History, Ahmadu Bello University and Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, CEDDERT Director. "The Centre for Democratic Development Research and Training, is established to promote and advance scientific research and training for the purpose of providing immediate and long-term solutions to the problems of the democratic, community, and national, development of the people of Nigeria, the rest of Africa, and the African diaspora."

--See also: 2016 web site

"Established in 2003 in honour of celebrated Nigerian artist, scholar, educator, art administrator and statesman, Professor Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu (1917-1994)." The website includes information about various cultural and educational programs (scholarships and internships), the archive and research library, on-going research projects, and a bookshop.

The site includes reports on the Education RoadMap (2009) and more recent policy statements in "downloads" section; plus related web links.

This website is a digital collection of official documents handed to participants, some of the papers presented, video documentaries, and articles written about FESTAC '77, Lagos, Nigeria.

"This is an archive of digitized photographs depicting the arts and cultures of southeastern Nigeria. The collection includes examples from Ibibio, Igbo, Ijo and Ogoni speaking peoples. All of the photographs were taken in the 1930s by the late G.I. Jones, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. The majority of the images are from the Igbo speaking regions where Jones conducted most of his research."

A web site entirely in Hausa, with news from Nigeria (in English, from Nigerian newspapers or e-mail reports), Hausa radio program files, cultural information, and related links. See also: Hausa Language Resources on the Web below.

A short bibliography on or about the state of Kano in Nigeria, concentrating on unpublished Ph.D. and Masters theses. Kano Online (2003) was a blog and forum for commentary on cultural and political affairs.

"Since its birth in 1999, LABAF has manifested as a yearly ritual for top-notch publishers, adherent book lovers, literary activists and artists of all hues, attracting huge patronage from members of the public across ages and divergent persuasions."

The 5th Lagos International Poetry Festival--"Wide Awake", October 31--November 4, 2019. The site includes the official program and highlights from the events.

Book reviews and articles on African and popular global culture.

"Established in 2017, the Lagos Studies Association is an international, interdisciplinary organization of academic and non-academic practitioners whose interest focus on Lagos and its peoples."
--The 8th Annual International Conference of the Lagos Studies Association--"African Identities: Peoples, Cultures, and Institutions in Motion," In-person/Online, June 25-29, 2024, University of Lagos, Nigeria

***The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2023.

"Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability & Professionalism (LEAP) Africa was founded in 2002...LEAP Africa is a youth-focused leadership development organization committed to raising leaders that will transform Africa."
--See especially: Newsletters ; Reports

"MUSON was founded in 1983 as a result of the interaction and commitment of some friends who love and appreciate classical music...The main objective of MUSON is the promotion of the understanding, enjoyment and performance of classical and contemporary music in Nigeria."
--See also: MUSON on YouTube.com

Images of the artist's work (wooden sculptures), plus helpful texts on Nigerian history and woodcarving.

"Ngiga is a writers collective open to works from around the globe focused on netting different perspectives of our convergent lives. We are open to new forms of story telling, artistic explorations, poetic expressions and poignant essays and reviews that meet the need of changing time. "

"[Established in 1977]...NAS is uniquely positioned to bring scientific knowledge to bear on the policies/strategic direction of the country and is also dedicated to the development and advancement of science, technology, and innovation in Nigeria."
--See especially: NAS Reports -and- NAS on COVID-19

The web site offers only an overview of the research agenda, contact information, and a listing of publications (none available online).

A blog site based on a crowd-sourced project first launched through Facebook. "Collecting photographs (including video and sound-bytes) depicting scenes and people from Nigeria between the mid-19th century and 1980."

"Onitsha Market Literature consists of stories, plays, advice and moral discourses published primarily in the 1960s by local presses in the lively market town of Onitsha, an important commercial site in the Igbo-speaking region of southeastern Nigeria. Twenty-one pamphlets appear here fully digitized and annotated to exemplify styles of expression found in this intriguing form of African popular literature. They are part of a unique collection of 101 pamphlets from Onitsha now held at the Spencer Research Library."

This site consists of two lists of recordings and artists. "The Orishas are divine beings originally worshipped by the Yoruba people of West Africa. Their worship was carried to the New World in the holds of slave ships, and became well established in many countries of the western hemisphere. Music is a major element in the worship of the Orishas. ... Orishas have also insinuated themselves into the melting pot of popular culture, and songs celebrating their existence have come out of many musical genres, from jazz to salsa to disco."

A "digital record" of an exhibit on fashion, popular poster art, and electronic media.

NRN's focus was on Islam and politics in northern Nigeria. "The Nigeria Research Network was active at ODID until 2017. It connected European, American, and Nigerian academics with extensive experience with empirical and development-oriented research in northern Nigeria...[and] involved the late Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha, David Ehrhardt, and Hannah Hoechner [among others]."

See also: the overall CHERI project on The Role of Universities in the Transformation of Societies.

This site offers interpretive historical summaries on Islam in Africa and free downloads of selected works in English translation of the writings of Uthman dan Fodio, his brother Abdullahi, his son Muhammad Bello, and his daughter Nana Asmau of the Sokoto Caliphate, and several other Islamic intellectuals in West Africa. "....conceived December 15, 1985...as the result of conversations between the present Sultan of Maiurno al-Hajj Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Bello Maiurno ibn Attahiru ibn Ahmad Zuruku ibn Abu Bakr Attiku ibn Shehu Uthman Dan Fodio, our shaykh, Imam Muhammad al-Amin ibn Adam Karagh, Ahmad Abideen Hassan and the founding director Muhammad Shareef...to collect the Arabic and Ajami manuscripts of the Sokoto Caliphate from northern Nigeria and convey them to the town of Maiurno in order to be edited and republished...To date SIIASI has collected 3000 Arabic manuscripts and 123 Ajami manuscripts (Fulbe’, Hausa, Wolof and Mande’). Of these, more than 89 have been translated and published by the institute."

"Saraba is a literary magazine focused on the work of new writers in Nigeria and other parts of the African continent. Since 2009, we have published several issues of a magazine, editions of poetry chapbooks, and online-only work."

Since 2018, this blog site features commentary and promotional information from the Nigeria historian Max Siollun.
--See also: Nigeria History Channel --via YouTube.com

Launched in 1988: this open accesss journal publishes original, unpublished and scholarly papers in the social sciences and related disciplines. The site includes current articles and the archive of older issues since 1988.

A list of links to the websites of Nigeria's 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja.

"...originates from Qur’anic manuscripts photographed by David Bivar in 1950s and donated to the SOAS Library in 2003. The initial collection consisted of four manuscripts represented by 230 folios in photographic and microfilm form, all subsequently digitised in 2005. In 2005-2007, in the course of fieldwork conducted by Dmitry Bondarev and Abba Isa Tijani in northern Nigeria, and in 2009-2013 by Dmitry Bondarev in Nigeria, Niger and the Republic of Chad, the corpus of digitised manuscripts was substantially increased to more than 5,000 folios."

"WALS is a non-profitable association of academics, research workers, field workers and teachers drawn from the West African sub-region. These countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mali Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo...Currently we have members resident in North America (Canada and USA), European Union (France, Netherlands, Spain, UK etc)."
--See also: Journal of West African languages. (Online): 1964 to present

A website --in English and in Yoruba-- for the newly-constructed arts center, museum, park, and swimming pool in Onikan, Lagos. ***Note: As of June 2022, the center and exhibition spaces are still under construction.

"Yorùbá Diaspora is a Catographcially Based Interactive Digital Archive (CBIDA), which is a series of annual maps that operates on a temporal scale. It is currently under development as there is much data and primary sources to upload...The project director, Henry B. Lovejoy, has compiled geo-referenced data and aligned it with slave voyage data to visualize the process whereby conflict provided captives who boarded slave ships destined for the Americas. The geographic scope of this project reflects an area which is part of southwestern Nigeria, as well as Benin and Togo... As more materials are added, the aim is to present the materials hosted herein alongside a traditional print publication tentatively called, The Collapse of Oyo and the Creation of the Yoruba: An Illustrative History."