Deuteronomy 8:3

Where would you go on a shopping spree? “Man shall not live by bread alone” this is a biblical injunction and bread includes shopping sprees. I will go shopping but not on a spree. The local market and corner shop not just for bread but interactions with others.

All Animals Are Equal (Especially the Ones with Private Jets) by Lawson Akhigbe

In 1945, George Orwell published Animal Farm as a warning about the Soviet Union. It was meant to be a neat little allegory about authoritarian creep, revolutionary betrayal, and how pigs with good PR can convince you that up is down and hay is steak. Fast forward to 2026 and we’re not reading Animal Farm …

The Dignity of Labour in the Age of Robots by Lawson Akhigbe

There is a biblical passage that says: “The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” The line is not merely a theological anecdote; it reflects a deeper philosophical assumption about the human condition. Work was not introduced as punishment but as purpose. Humanity …

The Trans-Saharan Trade: Africa’s Forgotten Trauma and the Identity Hangover Nobody Wants to Talk About

If history were a courtroom drama, the trans-Atlantic slave trade would be the loud, theatrical defendant—always in the dock, always in the documentaries, always in the schoolbooks. Meanwhile, its quieter accomplice, the trans-Saharan slave trade, would be the shady figure sitting in the back row wearing dark glasses and pretending to read the Qur’an, hoping …