Black Looks on Nigerian elections: “Nigeria went to the polls on Saturday for the first leg of the elections - the second leg voting for the President and national assembly is next Saturday. Today the Supreme Court ruled null and void the INEC’s (Electorial Commission) disqualification of Vice President Atiku Abubakar and at least 6 other governors. Nigeriaworld’s choice of headlines “Democracy Rules” is way off mark as violence, rigging and general thuggery seemed to have ruled the day.”
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Read an interview at Black Looks with Nigerian digital artist, Kenneth Shofela Coker.
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Kenyan Poet, singer and actor Grand Master Masese fears for his life after a series of bizarre phone incidences in the past week.
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