Angela Davies was 79 last Friday and Boston Review did not forget to mark the birthday but by intellectualizing her, a package to which the piece below served as a kind of preface. Of course, there are all manner of stuff on her but readers... Read more
De-Escalation
The turbulence that, historically, characterizes every presidential election in Nigeria is in full swing. It is frightening to even the most usually unperturbed elements in the polity about such things. Surely, no one who understands how social dynamics unfolds or, to p... Read more
Spectacle
The cover picture and subject matter of this piece comes from China. It was used by even a non-Nigerian newspaper to illustrate the coming emptiness of streets in China in the wake of its declining demography. How a population of 1.4 billion people can decline that dras... Read more
NewsLog
Is Buhari Necessary for Jagaban’s ‘Forward to the Past’ in 2023?
Intervention first published this piece on June 28th, 2020, two and half years ago. It is being repu... Read more