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From Fani-Kayode to Wike: The “Tin Gods” and the Burden of Nigeria’s Republics by Lawson Akhigbe
Every era of Nigerian democracy arrives with a unique promise of renewal. Yet, history shows that each republic has also birthed its own political behemoth, men who, intoxicated by the proximity to power or wealth, wielded influence like blunt instruments. They became institutional bullies, structural disruptions, and political "tin gods" whose shadows darkened the democratic …
Punching Down is Not a Policy by Lawson Akhigbe
PM Kier Starmer As of June 29, 2026, the 1824 Vagrancy Act has officially been repealed by the Labour government led by Kier Starmer. For over two centuries, this archaic law did something truly remarkable in its cruelty: it made the catastrophic misfortune of having nowhere to live a literal crime. Under the Act, sleeping …
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The Value Gap: America’s Original Accounting Fraud
There is an unspoken ledger in the United States. It doesn’t appear in budgets, GDP figures, or campaign speeches, but it quietly governs outcomes all the same. Call it the value gap, the stubborn, deeply embedded assumption that some lives, specifically white lives, carry a higher premium than others. Not the ranting of fringe extremists, …
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Bretton Woods and the African Debt Trap: How a 1944 Financial Order Still Controls a Resource-Rich Continent by Lawson Akhigbe
Africa Africa is often described as a poor continent. That statement is repeated so often that it has become accepted as fact. Yet it collapses under the slightest inspection. The continent holds some of the world’s largest reserves of gold, cobalt, lithium, uranium, diamonds, oil, gas, manganese, rare earth minerals and fertile agricultural land. The …
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