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The Politics of Exhaustion / Republic of Endurance
A generation ago, many of the realities that define ordinary Nigerian life today would have been treated as evidence of a national emergency. Prolonged...
The Circuit-Breaker: How Nentawe Yilwatda Rewrote the Operating System of Power
We’ve lived with this tired consensus for decades. In Nigerian politics, power belongs exclusively to the loud.
We measure political weight by decibels,the chest-thumping warlord,...
Football, Geopolitics, and the Sportswashing of Empire
There is a comforting lie we tell ourselves about football.
We tell ourselves that the white lines of the pitch enclose a neutral republic. That...
The Housemates in the Red Chamber
Watching the proceedings of the Senate in recent weeks, one could be forgiven for wondering whether Nigeria's latest reality show has quietly moved from...
Messi Wept: On Time, Mortality, and the End of the Age of Saviors
History does not remember most of us.
It remembers the builders of empires, the authors of revolutions, and, every once in a while, a small...
