Radio report R2R  — It is one of the phenomena that worries people from the North-East the most: political thuggery. The alliance between campaigning politicians and their paid supporters in Nigeria is a recipe for violence, they fear, when the young people go rogue after electoral season is over.

Video report RNW — Genital mutilation used to be a lifetime sentence for a woman. These days the results of the damaging practice can be partly restored: one fairly simple operation gives a circumsized woman her clitoris back. In Burkina Faso Femke van Zeijl followed one of these women before, during and after her medical procedure.

TV-series BNNVARA —A courtesy visit to the Oba of Benin, the horse races at the Kano Durbar and meetings with Boko Haram victims trying to get their lives back together: Planeet Nigeria went all over the country. As researcher and local producer Femke van Zeijl worked on this TV-series broadcast in 2019.