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The education you never received in school

The quiet tragedy of modern schooling is not that it fails to teach, but that it teaches too narrowly, too safely, too obediently. Beneath the polishe

Ominous dangers of America’s military base in Africa

Beyond the traditional and significant dangers that American military bases pose, such as environmental contamination from hazardous waste, omnipresen

Nigeria’s new power order: How concentrated rule and identity politics threaten 2027

Nigeria is falling into a new political order, one in which power is more concentrated than at any point since 1999, and elections are increasingly fo

Dangote at 69: The man building Africa’s industrial backbone

As Aliko Dangote turns 69, his story demands to be read not as a biography of wealth, but as a case study in Africa’s unfinished industrial argument.

Where Are the Red Lines?

On the collapse of ethical limits, the death of shame, and the quiet normalization of boundless impunity in Nigerian public life. “I was watching poli