Originally published by Africa Is A Country · Azeezah Adekanmbi. Read the full story →
An exhibition in Ibadan recovers Nigeria’s buried history of activism, raising urgent questions about access, erasure, and whether archives can inspire new political action. All images courtesy Sa'eed Husaini © 2026. Archives are repositories of the past. A way of holding on. Of preserving. In various forms. Of different people. There is a need for archiving, for the future, for the past. To be a part of something larger, for belonging. But archives constantly raise new questions. Who decides w