Ideas beyond the obvious.
No. 020Economics & Politics
There is something worth examining about the way we remember significant moments in our history. We celebrate independence, political movements, revolutions, military struggles and the individuals who stood at the…
Historical significance should not become permanent immunity from scrutiny.
No. 019Art & Creativity
I sometimes wonder if we made the most of the Afrobeats movement.
No. 018Work & Organisations
How evidence, momentum, and uncertainty shape the direction a product takes.
No. 017Work & Organisations
Start with the questions. The title can come later.
No. 016Philosophy & Ideas
I used to think reading was dangerously close to indoctrination. You open a book, and someone else’s conclusions walk straight into your head. No resistance, no interrogation, just absorption. And if most of what we know…
Subjects are a way to browse, not walls. Most essays speak to more than one, and appear under each.
How people live together: communities, identity, African societies and the cultures that shape how we see the world.
Questions of meaning, knowledge, ethics and human behaviour, and the ideas that quietly organise our lives.
Markets, money, power and public policy, and who gains and who loses from the choices societies make.
Business, institutions and organisational behaviour: how people decide, build and work together.
Music, art, design and the creative process, and what making things reveals about the people who make them.
How new tools and products change the way we live and work, and what is gained and lost along the way.
Unproductively begins with essays. These will follow; none has started yet.
