Executive · Builder · Storyteller
Building cleaner movement.
Writing the human story.
Akin Akingbogun works where infrastructure, enterprise, leadership and storytelling meet, turning hard problems into systems, ventures and stories people can use.
- Clean-mobility builder
- Social entrepreneur
- Civil engineer
- Strategist
- Mentor
- Writer
- Storyteller
- Thought leader
- Life coach
- Incurable optimist
The work
Four desks. One point of view.
Practical ideas from the work, reflective essays from the road and stories about what makes people move.
New Energy
Clean mobility, infrastructure and the ventures reshaping African movement.
02Leadership
Decision-making, execution, culture and the difficult work of building well.
03Stories
Fiction, reflection and observations about the strange business of being human.
04Speaking & Impact
Conversations, mentoring and community work designed to move ideas into action.
From the archive
Latest dispatches
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FIGHTING ADDICTION
I once spent an entire Saturday preparing to write a business plan. I did not write the business plan. I reorganised my desk, first.…
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The Year the Streets Would Not Let Them Rest
What the Dancing Plague of 1518 still has to teach a city like Lagos A city already on its knees Strasbourg in 1518 was…
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THE MIND IS A BATTLEFIELD
There is a particular kind of madness that visits a man stuck in traffic on the Third Mainland Bridge at half past six in…
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THE MAN IN THE MIRROR
I once sat in a gathering of otherwise reasonable, educated Nigerians, the kind of room where everyone has an opinion and every opinion is…
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LATE BLOOMER
I remember scrolling through one of those glossy “Forbes 30 Under 30” style lists one quiet night, the kind of night when you are…
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The Law of wasted efforts
There is a statistic that should discourage any lion from ever hunting again. Three out of every four times a lion charges after prey,…
Beyond the byline
Ideas should leave the page and enter the world.
Explore guest voices, community programmes and conversations built around cleaner mobility, better leadership and fuller human lives.