The postponement of Nigeria’s elections and the subversion of the will of the ordinary citizen.


Tolu Ogunlesi is a Nigerian journalist and blogger, and West Africa correspondent for The Africa Report. His work has appeared in Al Jazeera, Financia... l Times, the London Guardian, CNN and NEXT. He is a two-time winner of the CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards. He lives in Lagos.
The postponement of Nigeria’s elections and the subversion of the will of the ordinary citizen.

Maasai tribe’s eviction is part of a larger land-grabbing trend across Africa.
![For close to two decades the Maasai and the foreign trophy-hunters managed to coexist, writes Ogunlesi [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/201411237438139734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Welcome to the age of the citizen uprising in Africa.
![Instability has plagued the continent over the last five decades, writes Ogunlesi [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014111102055176734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Why does the West assume a tweet can fix Africa’s problems?
![The attention does little to dispel the ignorance that surrounds Africa and its issues, writes Ogunlesi [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/20141022133635769734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The baale of Makoko is challenging negative stereotypes of Lagos’ economically productive overwater settlement.
![Emmanuel Shemede is chief of Makoko, an overwater settlement in Lagos [Ruth McDowall/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20149991549908734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Musician Femi Kuti discusses pan-Africanism, the state of African leadership and the need to understand history.
