A Federal High Court has halted the university's lockout of students who say they were admitted, paid their fees and sat their exams, only to be pushed out of the Faculty of Law over administrative lapses they did not cause.

When two of the most serious allegations against a Nebula-winning author were formally retracted seven weeks later, the outlets that broke the original story gave the correction a fraction of the reach of the accusation, a pattern that repeats across a running post, a buried newsletter update, and a mainstream roundup that never revised its own sentence.

A thin, concentrated layer of gatekeepers, funded largely from outside the continent, has come to stand in for the publishing infrastructure Africa doesn't have. That substitution rewards proximity to a handful of institutions over the work itself, and it leaves a writer's career resting on a small number of people who happened to be paying attention.