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Ron Singer

Ron Singer has taught for thirty years at Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in New York City. He has written more than thirty articles and reviews about Africa and Nigerian politics in Friends of Nigeria Newsletter, Peace Corps Readers and Writers, and Worldview (all Peace Corps publications), African Link (a business magazine), American Book Review, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and the Wall Street Journal.

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Nigerian futures: interview with Wole Soyinka

Nigeria is preparing for a major political transition. Its leading literary voice, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, talks to Ron Singer about where west Africa's pivotal state is going.

The state of Nigerian democracy

West Africa’s oil-rich giant is convulsed over the president’s plans to run for a third term in office. Ron Singer maps the debates among political and civil-society activists who are asking if Nigerians can escape from the legacy of “one-man democracy”.