Political Imagination

WEEK 18: THE NIGER DELTA – ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION

📌 THE FACTS (What Actually Happened)The Niger Delta is Nigeria’s economic engine—and its greatest environmental crime scene. For…
WEEK 17: DECOLONISING NIGERIA – CAN WE BUILD A TRULY AFRICAN NATION?

Circle, Week 17 is up: Decolonising Nigeria – Can We Build a Truly African Nation? A few questions…
WEEK 16: THE ROLE OF THE NIGERIAN DIASPORA – CAN THE ABROAD BUILD AT HOME?

📌 THE FACTS (What Actually Happened) Nigeria has one of the largest diasporas in the world. Over 17…
“IF YOU WERE IGBO, I WOULD HAVE DETAINED YOU”: VIRAL HIGHWAY INCIDENT EXPOSES NIGERIA’S UNHEALED INSTITUTIONAL FRACTURES

“If you were Igbo, I would have detained you.” A viral highway incident exposes Nigeria’s unhealed institutional fractures—where…
WEEK 15: NIGERIA’S FUTURE – CAN SPECULATIVE REPAIR BUILD A NEW NATION?

“We do not merely look back at history to remember where we came from; we re-examine it to…
WEEK 14: THE 1999 CONSTITUTION – A SECOND CHANCE (OR MORE OF THE SAME?)

The 1999 Constitution was never made by the people. It was a military decree—cloned from 1979 and handed…
Speculative Repair: A Framework for Reimagining Nations

A Global Editorial Review The Question We Must Ask Every society carries wounds. Some are visible—crumbling infrastructure, empty…
THE SPECULATIVE REPAIR CIRCLE

The Abacha years were not just a dictatorship. They were a system designed to make resistance impossible. And…
WEEK 12: THE STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAM – WHEN THE IMF CAME CALLING

By 1985, Nigeria faced economic collapse after an oil boom, leading to General Buhari’s ousting by General Babangida,…
Speculative Repair – WEEK 11: THE 1979 CONSTITUTION – THE PROMISE THAT LIED

After Nigeria’s civil war, military rule persisted under General Gowon until his 1975 coup. General Mohammed’s 1979 constitution…