What does it mean to be a good person? Love your neighbor as yourself
The Second Commandment
The fight to uncover the Nigerian president’s FBI files by Adrian Elimian
Nigeria’s president is locked in a fierce reelection battle — one that is not just playing out among voters ahead of January polls, but pitting teams of lawyers and lobbyists against a lone litigant half a world away in California. Remarkably, this latter-day David just won a significant victory over Goliath.
How the Africa Keeps Refusing to Fit Neatly into Western PowerPoint Slides by Lawson Akhigbe
In his memoir The Lion Awakes, Ashish Thakkar recounts how, as a young entrepreneur flogging computer parts across Africa in the 1990s, he noticed that flights within the continent took suspiciously longer than the maps suggested. Were the planes slower? No. The Mercator projection had been quietly shrinking Africa for centuries, the cartographic equivalent of …
Britain Wants the World to Visit, But First It Wants to Know Why You Have £500 in Your Bank Account by Lawson Akhigbe
The UK says it welcomes tourists, artists, writers and performers. Its visitor visa system sometimes seems determined to prove otherwise. There is something wonderfully British about telling the world that Britain is open for business, culture and tourism, while simultaneously asking an African musician why somebody deposited £500 into his bank account three weeks before …
Japan
What’s a country that’s at the top of your bucket list? Watched and loved Love in Tokyo
