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A sober reflection on General Murtala Ramat Mohammed requires a careful separation of verifiable history from rumour, memory from myth, and institutional responsibility from individual culpability. Fifty years after his assassination, he remains one of Nigeria’s most mythologised leaders—celebrated as a nationalist reformer, yet inseparable from some of the most violent and turbulent episodes in …
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An Immigrant Story of Courage, Loneliness, and the Quiet Strength of Starting Over There are journeys that begin with excitement.And there are journeys that begin with goodbye. Mine began with a suitcase that felt too small for my dreams and a pair of old shoes that had already walked more miles than I realized. […]From …
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Once upon a time—yes, this is a brushstroke—an Englishman’s home was his castle, and the fiat of the King stopped at the water’s edge. In practical terms, this meant something deceptively simple: everyone in England was treated as English for the purposes of daily life. There were no internal immigration controls. Social and civic services …
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An Exclusive, If Deeply Confusing, Report from the BunkerIn a move that has shocked pundits and historians—mostly historians—the newly proclaimed “Third Reich” of Donald J. Trump has gotten off to a rocky, and frankly, bewildering start. Sources close to the glittering, gilded situation room report a level of chaos not seen since the last season …
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What were your parents doing at your age? They shall remain young forever as they never got old. They left too soon because they got old too soon. Our timeline never met, they got old while I was still young at any point of their timeline. At sixteen I was still a kept child, while …
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