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Nigeria holidays

January 2019

  • Ben Okri Observer Food Monthly OFM

    Life on a plate
    Ben Okri: ‘If you’re hungry, books seem full of feasts’

    The writer on living on the streets in London, eating in a cellar during the Nigerian civil war, and fasting while writing

March 2016

  • Ancient Benin city.

    The story of cities
    Story of cities #5: Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace

    With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?

June 2015

  • The Makoko Floating School, Lagos.

    A history of cities in 50 buildings
    Makoko Floating School, beacon of hope for the Lagos 'waterworld' – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 48

    When Jessica Collins and photographer Iwan Baan visited Lagos in 2013 to document a radical new school, the Makoko slum was facing demolition. Now the building’s global recognition is helping to give the community fresh hope

March 2015

  • Lagos

    Insider's guides
    The insider's cultural guide to Lagos: Parties, church and Afrobeat

    From chilled street style to closed-street parties, gossip blogs to the ubiquitous sound of generators, fashion photographer Lakin Ogunbanwo introduces Nigeria’s most populous city

August 2014

  • guardian africa instagram

    Guardian Africa network
    Guardian Africa's Instagram takeover – (more) highlights in pictures

  • Andrew Esiebo

    Guardian Africa network
    Colourful chaos of Lagos brought to life on Instagram

July 2013

  • The Kofar Mata dye pits in Kano, northern Nigeria

    Nigeria hopes Kano's ancient textile traditions can boost trade and tourism

    Facelift to crumbling dye pits feeds hopes of reviving once-vibrant heritage tourism in former emirate

October 2012

  • Lagos musicians

    Fela Kuti honoured in Lagos – video

    Family and friends of Africa's most famous musician talk about what made Fela Kuti and his music so special

January 2012

  • A fish vendor in Lagos.

    Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa – review

    Noo Saro-Wiwa's sharply observed Nigerian travelogue reveals another side to the African giant, says Ian Birrell

  • Travel writing: Nigeria and the South Pole

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Guardian Books podcast: Travel writing – pole to equator

    Noo Saro-Wiwa on Nigeria, and Sara Wheeler on the fascination of the planet's poles

  • A woman carrying a bowl of fruit to market in a village near Abuja

    Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa

    Adewale Maja-Pearce on a journey from Roedean to a place of poverty

May 2011

  • sahr-ngaujah

    Taking Fela Kuti home

    Fela! star Sahr Ngaujah on the extraordinary trip he undertook to take the production back to the Afrobeat pioneer's native Nigeria

February 2011

  • Tinie Tempah in Concert - Hollywood

    Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook'

    Tuesday evening could be Tinie Tempah's night. The 22-year-old rapper has been nominated for four Brits and is the hot favourite to steal this year's show. But that'll be just the start. The ambitious Londoner sees himself as "a soldier for my culture, the voice of my generation". Here, he talks about dreams, Dolly Parton and why he wants to live in Poole

January 2011

  • supporters at Inauguration of Umaru Musa Yar Adua as the new President of Nigeria Abuja 29 May 2007

    Nigeria: The happiest place on earth

    Nigeria is beset by poverty, corruption and violence – but a poll says it is the world's most optimistic nation. Bim Adewunmi explains why

January 2010

  • benedict alle namibia

    The travel gurus' guide to 2010

  • La Giostra del Saraceno Saracen Joust, Tuscany, Italy

    2010: the year ahead
    The best local festivals of 2010 | June to December

January 2008

  • Rats for dinner... then we met al-Qaeda

    My crap holiday

September 2006

  • 'What took you so long?'

    Diana Evans

    Commentary: Diana Evans returns to Nigeria to launch a bold new publishing project.

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