THE LAW AS LOADED GUN: NOTES FROM EDO STATE’S SEASON OF VAGUE STATUTES AND VAGUER MEN By Lawson Akhigbe

Once the apparatus exists, point it wherever is politically convenient. The genius of the trick is that anyone who objects to the pointing can be accused of sympathising with the fear itself.

Xenophobia as an Economy: How Violence Becomes a Political and Financial Instrument in South Africa by Lawson Akhigbe

The tragedy is not just that the poor are fighting each other. It is that, in doing so, they are unwitting participants in a system that depends on exactly that outcome.