Maggie Fick, West Africa correspondent for the Financial Times London, will discuss the current state of Nigeria during a presentation, “Nigeria: The Economy, The Politics, and the Peoples of Africa’s Most Populous Nation,” in the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art auditorium at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 18.

Nigeria, a country of 180 million people, is currently home to 2.5 percent of the world’s population. Its demographics are changing so quickly that it will become the world’s third-largest nation (behind only India and China) by 2050.

Life is changing quickly for Nigerians and the future is uncertain. The country has famously “danced on the brink,” and not fallen off a number of times since it gained independence in 1960. Now is yet another one of those times. Nigeria depends massively on the crude oil it produces. It gets around two-thirds of its government revenues from oil, so the fall in global oil prices has hit the economy hard. It has also piled pressure on Muhammadu Buhari, the 73-year-old former military ruler who took office just over a year ago on a wave of optimism, regarding his chances of changing the way the country is run.

Fick, one of a Reuters team that was named as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for their coverage of the disintegration of Iraq and the rise of ISIS, will talk a bit about the political and economic developments in the country during President Buhari’s first year in office.

She will show some photos and answer questions.

Fick grew up on Bainbridge Island and graduated from Bainbridge High School in 2003. She studied international relations with a focus on African politics at Pomona College in California. She was a 2007-2008 Fulbright Student Fellow in Niger and has worked as a journalist since 2010, reporting from 10 countries in Africa and the Middle East.

Working for Reuters, she covered the military coup in Egypt in 2013 that toppled the Muslim Brotherhood-led government, and the push by the Islamic State into Iraq in 2014. She moved to Lagos, Nigeria in 2015 for the Financial Times and has spent the past year reporting primarily on the impact of the fall in the price of oil on Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy.

Admission to the event is free, but donations to Doctors Without Borders will be accepted.