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![Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi leaves after laying a wreath at the Mzee Jomo Kenyatta's mausoleum during his three-country African tour, as part of efforts to reduce the Islamic Republic's economic isolation.]()
![<p>Members of the Civilian Joint Task Force stand guard during a drill near a bush in Minna, Niger state, Nigeria, on November 29, 2025. Vigilante groups have stepped in to fill security gaps as rural communities face rising attacks and abductions by armed gangs.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>A newspaper with an article reporting U.S. President Donald Trump’s message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hangs at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria, on November 2, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>People walk along a street between St. Joseph Catholic Church and Kano Road Central Mosque in Kaduna, Nigeria. </p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Newspapers with articles reporting U.S. President Donald Trump’s message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hang at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria, on November 2, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- By Elliott Abrams
![<p>People sit under the Falomo Bridge, where murals depicting the abduction of over two hundred Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram are displayed, on the day Nigerians mark the eleventh anniversary of the abduction, in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, on April 14, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- Backgrounder
China’s Repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
![TOPSHOT-CHINA-XINJIANG-UYGHURS-TOURISM]()
![<p>Lamido Abba Sorondinki, counsel for the Kano State government, and Kola Alapinni, legal counsel to Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, speak to the press after last week’s court hearing in Abuja, Nigeria, on September 25, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Trucks carry the wrapped bodies of people killed by suspected Boko Haram militants, during their funeral in Yobe, Nigeria, on September 3, 2024.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- By Elliott Abrams
![<p>A worker in Nairobi, Kenya, holds a newspaper with a picture of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- By Elliott Abrams
![<p>Amina Ahmed, wife of Mubarak Bala, an outspoken atheist who was charged with blasphemy, displays her husband’s photo at their home in Abuja, Nigeria on March 11, 2021.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![Cover of Topographies of African Spirituality]()
Topographies of African Spirituality
Ebenezer Obadare, Wale Adebanwi and Afe Adogame
![Cover of If You Will It, showing a star of David made out of the American flag]()
If You Will It
Elliott Abrams
![<p>Street vendors walk past a billboard advertising visits by Pentecostal preachers to Nigeria on April 13, 2005 in Lagos, Nigeria.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame arrives for his swearing-in ceremony after a landslide win in last month’s election at the Amahoro Stadium, Gasabo District of Kigali, Rwanda on August 11, 2024.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- By Simone Lipkind
![<p>Emir of Kano, Muhammad Lamido Sanusi II, rides on a dressed horse after attending prayers marking the Eid al-Adha celebration at an open field in Kofar Mata district in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano on September 1, 2017.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Former U.S. president Donald Trump prays with pastors during a campaign visit to the International Church of Las Vegas and the International Christian Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., October 5, 2016.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- Backgrounder
Religion in China
![<p>Hui Muslim women stand in front of China’s flag at a mosque in Beijing.</p>]()
