About
Contributors
Homeground is reported by people who are there. Both kinds of contributor carry a byline.
Writers, editors and photographers
Reporting across the six zones.
- Amina Yusuf
Writer at large · Kano
Reports across the north and the Middle Belt. Has spent most of the last decade on the trades that outlast the industries built over them.
- Tobi Adeyemi
Food editor · Ibadan
Writes about what people actually eat rather than what a restaurant would like them to. Particularly interested in market days and the economics of a single dish.
- Chidiebere Okafor
History editor · Enugu
Works on the histories that are held locally rather than written down, and on the buildings that are the last surviving witness to them.
- Halima Sadiq
Staff photographer · Jos
Photographs work and weather. Prefers a long stay to a quick assignment, and shoots most of the plateau in the cold months.
- Ini Etuk
Editor · Calabar
Edits the south-south coverage. Has argued, at length and in print, that the delta is over-reported and under-described.
- Sule Danjuma
Writer · Makurdi
Covers rivers, farming and the places where the two arguments meet. Grew up on the Benue and has never really left it.
Local contributors
The people whose ground it is, credited on the stories they helped report.
- Musa Garba
Dyer, Kofar Mata · Kano
Works one of the surviving indigo pits at Kofar Mata, where his family has held a place for four generations.
- Rakiya Ibrahim
Teacher · Argungu
Teaches in Argungu and has kept a record of the river's height, by hand, since 2009.
- Bitrus Pam
Farmer · Jos
Farms acha and potatoes outside Jos, on land his family reclaimed from a worked-out tin pit.
- Eno Akpan
Raffia weaver · Ikot Ekpene
Weaves at Ikot Ekpene and trains apprentices through the union that has run the trade there since the 1970s.
- Yemi Ogunlade
Grove custodian · Osogbo
One of the custodians of the Osun-Osogbo grove, responsible for the shrines on the eastern path.
- Fatima Modu
Trader · Maiduguri
Sells grain at the Monday Market in Maiduguri and has done since before it was rebuilt.
- Nkechi Obi
Potter · Onitsha
Makes water pots by hand in the way her mother did, and is candid that almost no one under thirty is learning it.