What’s the best thing you’ve ever found randomly on the street? Man is God and God is man. You find godliness on the street populated by men.
Kindness
WHEN THE FINE OUTLASTS THE SENTENCE: NIGERIA’S DIPLOMACY OF THE UNCOMPELLED By Lawson Akhigbe
Ambassador Yakubu Gambo did Nigeria the rare courtesy of telling the truth in public, which in the diplomatic trade counts as a small scandal in itself. Standing before Abike Dabiri-Erewa at NiDCOM’s Abuja headquarters, he confirmed what families of the detained have known for years without an official ever saying it plainly: Nigerians who have finished serving their Saudi jail terms remain locked up anyway, held hostage to fines they cannot pay and a government that has not worked out how to pay them either. He framed it as a welfare concern, a matter for coordination and consolidation of diaspora associations under one umbrella. It is, more accurately, a description of a state that has run out of leverage and is calling the shortfall a strategy.
May You Live in Interesting Times: The Era of the Unshakeable Political Disruptor by Lawson Akhigbe
If you had told a political scientist thirty years ago that a lineup featuring Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, and Bola Ahmed Tinubu would simultaneously dictate the fortunes, policies, and discourse of major world democracies, they would have recommended you take a quiet walk and a cold shower. Yet here we are, sitting in the front row of a geopolitical comedy-drama where the plot is made up and the rules don't seem to matter.
The Ultimate Resume Flex: “Hi, I Have Absolutely No Idea What I’m Doing” by Lawson Akhigbe
You would rip out your IV lines, jump off the table, and run out of the building still wearing that drafty hospital gown. And yet, when it comes to the complex, high-stakes machinery of running a society, this has become the ultimate campaign calling card. Across the globe, prospective elected officials are handing out political resumes where the biggest, boldest, most capitalized bullet point is: Not a politician
Every kindness is the kindest
What’s the kindest thing someone has ever done for you? True kindness has no memory of what came before and expects no receipt for what comes next. Because it exists outside of transactional math, it cannot be graded on a curve.
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