Essays

The Liberal Order and Its Enemies

Crime as rationale for xenophobia and hysteria against Nigerians – South Africa and beyond

Different times, different strokes? – Reinventing the golden age of Nigeria-South Africa fraternity

For Gerta Thornberg

How many gigabytes are in one terabyte? And why depend on a default app when you can go directly through the website?

Too many languages, too many states, too many universities, too many churches?

Trump as the “Chosen One” – Four Theses

Beyond the life and times of meritocracy in Nigeria, what next? A postscript

Preliminary notes on RevolutionNow

Merit without a meritocracy, can you have one without the other?

Revisiting ”zoning and rotation”

So far, so good!; Or, the scope and the limits of doomsday parables and metaphors

It took Buhari five, not two months to form his new cabinet? Okay, what does it matter?

For the Records, 2 documents

Dangerous half-truths and self-serving simplifications in El-Rufai’s tale of “two Nigerias”

The great silence on neoliberalism – postcript to PwC’s song of praise to Nigeria and Nigerians

Of Policy and Prejudice

The things that I miss and don’t miss in teaching – A guide for beginners to the profession

Comrade Ewgbon, Adieu: for Abiodun Molara Ogundipe (1930-2019)

Proudly heartening and distributing news from PrincewaterhouseCoopers, Nigeria

The Minority Report and Draft Constitution of 1976: in its time and in the stream of history

Apostrophes to friendship, socialism and democracy: encounters between now and eternity

Why it both matters and does not matter to say APC is center-right and PDP is hard right

Slow and unsteady loses the race – Buhari’s and APC’s unregulatable nationalist capitalism