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Jimoh Ibrahim, in broad daylight by Sonala Olumhense
Jimoh Ibrahim I have spent time on the Third Floor of the United Nations Headquarters in New York, where the press corps works. It is not a gentle place. The journalists there are seasoned professionals drawn from every region of the world: people who have reported wars, corruption scandals, and the fall of governments. They …
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Not Our War! by Wole Olaoye
Africa does not have a dog in the fight going on in the Middle East. “Operation Epic Fury” is a war between a tag team of a lion and a polar bear on the one hand and a honey badger and its army of unseen Tasmanian devils on the other. What we have learnt so …
South via West to North
You’re going on a cross-country trip. Airplane, train, bus, car, or bike? Airplane No, that’s fly over country and don’t get to see the country. Train, bus public transportation and no control and limiting to particular routes. Bike not an option. Car equal freedom of movement and flexibility of routes and get to meet the …
PULLING UP THE DRAWBRIDGE: BRITAIN’S OLDEST NATIONAL SPORT by Lawson Akhigbe
Zoom out far enough and you will notice something remarkable about Britain. We are not just a nation of shopkeepers, nor merely a nation of dog lovers, nor even exclusively a nation that apologises when you step on our foot. We are a nation that bellyaches about immigration. This is not new. It is not …
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The Ghost of Enoch Powell and the Children Who Fear the Whip by Lawson Akhigbe
Reform UK Limited Some political inheritances are stately homes. Others are offshore accounts. A select few inherit a speech. The ideological grandchildren of Enoch Powell have now reached full maturity. They have mortgages, podcasts, think tanks, and a permanent sense of cultural bereavement. They look around modern Britain and whisper gravely about “cultural erasure” a …
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Centre for Nigeria Progress 