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Who Was Jack the Ripper? What Lessons Can Be Learned
The Whitechapel murders remain unsolved, but their history still teaches us about criminal profiling, media panic, inequality and the stories we choose to remember.
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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. Then I decided the desk needed new folders, so I…
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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 a free city within the Holy Roman Empire. On paper,…
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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 the evening. I remember one such evening clearly. The cars…
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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 delivered with total conviction, and listened to a full hour…
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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 not really looking for trouble but find it anyway. Photograph…
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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, it fails. Twenty five percent success. Seventy five percent waste.…
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The Full Cup
There is a woman I know, call her Adaeze, who loves her husband the way a well-tended fire loves the wood it is given: completely, warmly, without……
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The Paradox of giving:When generosity becomes complicated
A message arrives from someone you have not spoken to in years. A parent needs surgery. An account number is attached, and a photograph of a hospital bill that may or may not be…
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Some Animals Are Still More Equal
I ran into a post on social media a few days ago. Someone had turned Animal Farm into a slideshow, cartoon pigs in suits, captions lifted straight from the book, the whole thing dressed…
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She Was Never the Weaker One. We Were Just Reading the Wrong Manual Part 2
In Part One, we established something that the available evidence handles quite comfortably: the female is not the weaker version
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She Was Never the Weaker One. We Were Just Reading the Wrong Manual Part 1
Her name was Nkechi. She was thirty-one years old, and she was dying — at least, that is what the doctors privately believed.