Family History
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Operation Wetié: Lessons from Nigeria’s Political Turmoil
SPECULATIVE REPAIR – WEEK 3: “OPERATION WETIÉ” & The Fall Of The First Republic Subtitle: When the Center…
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Speculative Repair- Week 2
The Ghost of the Census explores how British colonial manipulation of census data created a permanent political majority…
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How Literature Helps Heal Trauma
How literature helps heal trauma by giving memory form, restoring language after harm, and turning private pain into…
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Why Essays on Restorative Justice Matter
Essays on restorative justice help name harm, repair memory, and imagine better futures through literature, history, and moral…
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Speculative Repair – Week 1
The British chose Northern Nigeria for leadership despite its unreadiness, prioritizing stability over success. This decision created structural…
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Why African Futures Literature Matters
African futures literature reclaims time, memory, and power, showing how African storytelling can imagine repair beyond empire and…
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SPECULATIVE REPAIR – WEEK 0: THE ORIGINAL SIN
The piece discusses Nigeria’s historical foundations, highlighting that its design was flawed from the outset due to colonial…
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Why This Novel Now
Beyond History, Toward Speculative Repair Speculative Repair: Healing Nigeria’s Deepest Wounds The story of Nigeria is often told…
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The Significance of Ledgers in Preserving History
While researching, I encountered actual ledgers that had survived displacement. Page by page, they transformed: From recording profits…
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Exploring Healing in Nigeria’s Memory
In “The City He Never Returned,” the author explores the weight of generational trauma and national memory, inspired…
