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Labourers and Wages
A quick and dirty analysis of wages paid by publicly listed companies in Nigeria
Sep 22 • Feyi Fawehinmi
The Man From The Pru
A review of Tidjane Thiam’s ‘Without Prejudice’
Sep 19 • Feyi Fawehinmi
Is This IPO Halal?
An interrogation of the Dangote Refinery IPO offer
Sep 11 • Feyi Fawehinmi
To Whom Honour Is Given
An analysis of Nigeria’s national honours from 1963 to 2023
Sep 9 • Feyi Fawehinmi
Chapter 8: How To Sit On A Man
The Aba Women, in translation
Sep 1 • Feyi Fawehinmi

August 2026

The Undertaker
Zhu Rongji and the last rites of China's old industrial order
Aug 17 • Feyi Fawehinmi
Ozoz Sokoh on The Science of Nigerian Food
You may know her as Kitchen Butterfly, but Ozoz Sokoh trained as a scientist before turning her attention to food—not only to how it is made, but also…
Aug 12 • Feyi Fawehinmi
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Chapter 7: The Carpenter
The life of Robert Cudjoe, carpenter and interpreter
Aug 1 • Feyi Fawehinmi

July 2026

Fried Ambition
Poverty reduction will require something bigger than small grants
Jul 30 • Tobi Lawson
Buy Sheep, Sell Deer, Make Profit
When an unstoppable force from China meets an immovable object in Nigeria
Jul 29 • Feyi Fawehinmi
Toll Gate Niger
The logic of regulatory extraction
Jul 21 • Tobi Lawson
Akara, At Your Own Risk
The Intensification of Anyhowness
Jul 17 • Feyi Fawehinmi
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