Experience the 2024 Abibitumi Conference and Abibifahodie Festival on Black Power, held September 6th through 8th in Ghana. This powerful three-day gathering brought together scholars, artists, traditional leaders, vendors, musicians, youth innovators, repatriates, and community builders under the theme Black Power: Vision to Reality.From live presentations and Q&A sessions to ancestral libation, naming ceremonies, live interpretation in Twi and English, Black-centered vendors, art exhibitions, a fashion show, a concert, awards, and the unveiling of the statue honoring Nana Kamau Rashidi Kambon, this highlight film captures the spirit, purpose, and power of Abibitumi in motion.The event also featured the screening of Quiet Warrior: The BlackNificent Legacy of Nana Kamau Kambon, the relaunch of BlackNificent Books, and powerful performances rooted in Abibifahodie, family, legacy, land, culture, and nation-building.This was more than a conference. It was a living demonstration of Black Power becoming reality.ABIBITUMI! ABIBIFAHODIE!

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Saturday's attempted terrorist coup in Mali may have failed, but one thing that you couldn't miss was western media's crowing, celebratory tone during the attacks. Fortunately, Mali is not Syria.

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In Nigeria, ethnicity did not merely emerge as an identity—it evolved into a currency of power. Renowned historian Professor Toyin Falola, University Distinguished Teaching Professor and holder of the Frances and Jacob Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at The University of Texas at Austin, looks at how ethnic belonging was transformed from a marker of culture into a political weapon within the Nigerian state.To order Falola’s books, visit udarabooks.com Or chat with Udara Books on WhatsApp: +2348099918449

There are moments in history when a people decide they have had enough. Moments when silence becomes betrayal, and fear gives way to fire.

Chief Tola Adeniyi, former Editor-in-chief of the Tribune takes us back to one of those moments, the dark, combustible days of 1965 in Nigeria’s Western Region. A time when politics lost its soul, elections were twisted, and the will of the people was trampled under the weight of power. The result was chaos. Streets burned. Trust collapsed. A nation trembled.

It was called “Operation Wetie”—a phrase that is a warning bell across generations.

With the burden of memory, Adeniyi draws a chilling line between that past and the present. He reflects on the patterns of power, the dangers of electoral manipulation, and the fragile line between order and anarchy. In his view, history is watching for an opportunity to repeat itself.

As Nigeria moves under the leadership of Bola Tinubu, he raises a question that refuses to go away: are we learning from history, or are we rehearsing it?