04. (un)happy independence

04. (un)happy independence

OAG and Sa’eed spend the intro berating the ethnic/religious secessionist movements for being bad at history and geography and even worse at redistributive politics. Then Emeka joins in during the heart of the episode, where we offer some initial reflections on why the idea of the scam seemed an apt description for our show — and for our country (and the nation-state model more generally).

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