In September 2025, I announced the Toilet Access Project (TAP) on my LinkedIn page. The goal of the project is twofold: to raise awareness about the urgent need to improve toilets and wider water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities across Nigeria’s public spaces, and to inspire stakeholders to take meaningful action to address an issue …
The Power of Youth-Led Protests in Highly Divided Societies
I have been thinking about the relationship between polarisation and youth-led protests for the better part of this year. This note is an initial foray into the topic as a way to build a much broader body of thinking on the links between the two, often competing, themes. Africa has had its fair share of …
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On Space, Place and Time
‘There is time for everything. A season for everything under the sun…’ For the past decade, I have been thinking of doing some creative work around the theme of space. Mostly looking at how space is appropriated and with a particular focus on religious space. Later on, six years later, I included the additional dimensions …
On public policies and aspirational incompatibilities
The issues of public policies and aspirational incompatibilities first caught my interest during the Nigerian 2015 election cycle. At the time, trending social media hashtags (mainly on Twitter, now X): #babawhenyougetthere, #babanowthatyouarethere, and, on inauguration day, #changeishere, were used to articulate the aspirations and expectations of youth. I was interested in understanding the diverse aspirations …
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Beere: A commentary on resilience, the past, the present and the future
This evening I saw a powerful stage play titled Beere, written by Abiodun Baiyewu. The play sought to re-enact the past while reminding us of the present. Beere is about the 1946 Abeokuta women's revolt against unjust and high taxation led by Funmilayo Ransom Kuti, through the eyes of a witness - someone who was …
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Okolobi! 