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What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it? I have conquered fear and I will do whatever I wish to do as I have death in my back pocket (Aníkúlápo in Yoruba)
Shamima Begum and the Invention of Conditional Britishness by Lawson Akhigbe
Shamima Begum was born in the United Kingdom. She was a British citizen. That fact ought to have been the beginning and the end of the matter in any country that takes citizenship seriously. Britain, alas, decided to innovate. Ms Begum’s parents were of Bangladeshi origin. Bangladesh’s constitution provides for citizenship by descent. From this …
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The Accidental Kingmaker: How Nigel Farage Turned Political Farce into National Tragedy by Lawson Akhigbe
Political history is often shaped not by titans of ideology, but by opportunists waiting in the wings for their moment. Nigel Farage is the starkest British example of this in a generation. To understand the self-inflicted wound of Brexit, one must first look past the bombastic rhetoric of the “Brexit election” and trace the infection …
Midterm Miracles: America’s Chance to Step Away from the Cliff
Democracy, like a roller coaster, is thrilling — until you realize the engineer fell asleep at the controls. The forthcoming U.S. midterm election offers Americans one of those rare moments when they can collectively pull the emergency brake before the ride goes off the rails.For the past few years, the United States has been sprinting …
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What do you complain about the most? It is often easy to brush off bad service, but if you are looking to improve service, perhaps do it for the benefit of others and with the hope of making things better for everyone.
Centre for Nigeria Progress 