What's Left of the Nigerian Left Ep 2: Movement for African Emancipation

We are joined once again by Ayo Ademiluyi (@ComAdemiluyi), the disputed Labour Party House of Reps candidate for Eti-Osa, Lagos, to discuss the LPs victory in his constituency. Having won the LP prima...

3 Apr 202350min

In which we attempt to assess last weekend's governorship elections from the point of view of our regular thematic pre-occupations.

27 Mar 20231h 11min

In which we discuss the (s)election of a new president - not of the NLC, that's for later - but of our glorious federal republic. In addition to offering various takes on the titular question, we als...

3 Mar 20231h 3min

Coming back from our harmattan hiatus, we round out the presidential campaign banter with a discussion about the naira scarcity: whether it really is engineered by 'the cabal' (per El Rufai's claim);...

23 Feb 20231h 23min

@dvmilola joined us for our second film review, this time about an authorized biopic centered on Nigeria's wannabe Pinochet and so called "evil genius", Ibrahim Badamisi Babangida. We disagree about w...

31 Des 20221h 34min

In this episode, we revisit the Cement Armada Scandal, which we consider one of the foundational scams of the Nigerian political economy. The scandal saw the newly oil-rich post-civil war Nigerian gov...

20 Nov 20221h 39min

This episode draws out the key debates that came out of James Barnett's (@jh_barnett) reflections in our previous episode, centered on the findings of his in-person interviews with bandits in Zamfara....

25 Okt 20221h 30min

This week, we spoke with Kunle Wizeman Ajayi (@AjayiWizeman), former Lagos chair of the African Action Congress (AAC), about the AAC's ideology, 'structures', and electoral prospects. We also talked ...

9 Sep 20221h 18min