Centre for Nigeria Progress

Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu – a politician steeped in what political scientist Richard Joseph termed prebendalism (the use of public office to generate material resources for office-holders and their clients and cronies) – and previous Nigerian administrations have waged an inept counter-insurgency. Their gross incompetence and malfeasance, combined with the greed of a kleptocratic …

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I left for Abuja on Thursday 17th December 2020 in order to attend a friend's wedding on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday 20th I boarded Big Joe bus to Benin city, getting to Ekpoma, the driver told us that he won't be going to Benin because it was already past 7pm, so some of us …

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General Sani Abacha General Sani Abacha, may his dark goggles rest in eternal glory, was not merely a dictator; he was an educator. A pedagogue. A visiting professor of political science long before political science lost shame. His greatest innovation was consensus democracy: five political parties, one candidate, zero confusion. Why waste time with choice …

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There is a quiet but corrosive lie that has followed African Americans for centuries: that Black history began when the first slave ship reached continental America. It did not. What began on those ships was not history, but interruption. Before the Atlantic became a mass grave, before Black bodies were reduced to cargo, before names …

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