Khaki & Leather
OpeInvestigative essays on power, money, and who's lying to you about Africa and the world. Receipts included.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 420 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Liberté, Égalité, Shut Up
He couldn’t hold it for five minutes.
That is what you need to understand about what happened in Nairobi on May 11, 2026. Not the deals. Not the speeches. Not the thirty-plus heads of state seated in a room that France called “Africa Forwa...
A "Pan-Africanist" Walks Into Nairobi
Emmanuel Macron stood before a room of more than thirty African heads of state in Nairobi on May 11, 2026, and declared: “We are the true pan-Africanists.”
Not one of them stood up.
Let that sink in slowly. Take your time with it.
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Tanzania Is Selling Gas. Who Is Buying the Country?
The Iran war did East Africa a favor.
Not the dying, there is nothing favorable about that, but the clarity. When the Strait of Hormuz went hostile in 2026, East Africa ran out of fuel. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, all of them importing 100% o...
The Petrodollar's Last Battle
Bob Kagan just confessed to setting the house on fire. In The Atlantic. In May 2026. On the record.
That’s not rhetorical flourish. That’s the receipt.
For those who don’t know the name, and you should, Bob Kagan is the co-founder of the...
$20 for Your Soul: How Palantir Gets Clean Hands
The headline was written before the app was banned.
“Nigerian users defrauded an AI startup.” Clean. Shareable. It lands where people expected it to land. And now everybody has moved on, confident they understood the story.
They didn’t....
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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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