Khaki & Leather
OpeEssays on African politics, power, money, and the global systems shaping the continent. Receipts included.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 460 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Grading Before Bailout
Let’s get the naive read out of the way first: getting graded well by a foreign institution is not the same thing as being free.
Nigeria just got placed on S&P Dow Jones Indices’ 2027 Watchlist for possible reclassification from “Standalo...
Best in the World, Worst in the Room
Green heatmap, Sunday afternoon, everybody’s timeline. Dangote Cement up 71.92%. WAPCO up 150%. GTCO up almost 40%. Zenith Bank up 74.60%. Somebody’s screenshotting it like a WAEC result.
Attached to the screenshot, the number that made i...
One Big, Beautiful Database
Chat Control is bad. Yes. New? No.
The European timeline spent this week performing shock. 314 MEPs voted against gutting their own citizens’ encrypted lives, the measure passed anyway on a technicality nobody explained to them in school,...
NATO Discovers It Has Vendors, Not Soldiers
Mark Rutte called it a “defence industrial revolution.” Sit with that phrase for a second before you let it slide past you the way it was designed to. Not a security doctrine. Not a strategic posture. A revolution, industrial, the same lang...
How Lumumba Became a Deodorant
Rexona just signed a Congolese man to sell deodorant.
The man’s name is Michel Nkuka Mboladinga. You probably know him as Lumumba Vea: the superfan who stood motionless in the stands during the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, right...
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Nigerian writer. Oxford. Canada. ADM. DIFC. Oil fields. NGO sector. Government. I've been inside enough institutions to know what the press release leaves out. I write about power, money, and who's lying, with receipts.
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