Analysis

When Ukraine Becomes a Means to a Larger European Objective

When Ukraine Becomes a Means to a Larger European Objective

Posted on 21st Sep 2026

The debate over Europe’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war is becoming increasingly difficult to separate from a broader question: is the objective simply to defend Ukraine, or has weakening Russia itself become part of the strategic objective? Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, has made re...

When the People Building the Future Start Warning Us About It

When the People Building the Future Start Warning Us About It

Posted on 20th Sep 2026

The most unsettling warnings about artificial intelligence may not come from critics outside the industry, but from the people who have spent years building the systems themselves. On September 9, 2026, AI researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic after three years working in...

2026 Under the Swastika: What If Nazi Germany Had Won World War II?

2026 Under the Swastika: What If Nazi Germany Had Won World War II?

Posted on 23rd Jun 2026

Somewhere in Lagos, on a humid evening in 2026, a man sits on a balcony staring into the darkness. The city is alive. Traffic crawls. Street vendors argue over prices. A church choir practises somewhere in the distance. A mosque's loudspeaker answers from another direction. Young people scroll throu...

The Refuse Republic: How Nigeria's Ruling Class Turned a Manageable Problem Into a National Disgrace, and Why Africa Is Paying Attention

The Refuse Republic: How Nigeria's Ruling Class Turned a Manageable Problem Into a National Disgrace, and Why Africa Is Paying Attention

Posted on 21st Jun 2026

Civilisations announce themselves through what they build and through what they leave behind. The Egyptians built the pyramids of Giza and left behind an architectural civilisation that humanity has spent five thousand years attempting to comprehend. The Romans paved roads that still run beneath the...

20,000 a Day: The Mathematics of Nigeria's Coming Catastrophe and the Political Class That Made It Inevitable

20,000 a Day: The Mathematics of Nigeria's Coming Catastrophe and the Political Class That Made It Inevitable

Posted on 21st Jun 2026

There is a question that no government official in Abuja will answer honestly, because the honest answer is too damning to survive in the morning newspapers. The question is this: if the rate at which Nigerians are being kidnapped and killed continues to climb at its current trajectory, and if the s...