It has become a tragic, predictable script in Nigeria. A bandit attack occurs, innocent citizens, often children and their educators, are carted off into the bush, and the initial wave of official responses rolls in. But recently, in Oyo State, a specific reaction to a mass abduction highlighted a deeper, more concerning psychological shift in …
Do you remember your favorite book from childhood? Intersection of Ibo cultural collision and British colonialism. “I kill a man when life is sweetest to him”
What’s something you’d love to see in the future, but know you probably won’t live to witness? Individual DNA cancer medication. Precision oncology (or personalized medicine). Cancer treatment where therapies are customized based on the specific genetic mutations found in a patient's unique tumor DNA, rather than just where the cancer originated in the body. …
A leader's first obligation is to send his military into the smallest possible danger for the largest possible gain. You do that by building coalitions. You do that by keeping allies close. You do that by understanding that 300 million people going to war alone is a political choice, not a military necessity, and that …
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There is an old and reliable principle in physics: nature abhors a vacuum. Where there is nothing, something will rush in. The question has always been what. For a brief and almost convincing moment, the answer appeared to be progress — climate action, social justice, economic empowerment blinking into their earliest spring. Then the world …
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