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3 weeks ago | 
niallferguson.substack.com | Niall Ferguson |Feyi Fawehinmi |Michael Maloney |Jim Miller
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
1914reader.com | Feyi Fawehinmi
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
aguntasolo.co | Feyi Fawehinmi
It’s been a minute. Your loyal correspondent was in Lagos to gather evidence about the aftermath of the much talked about 2024 Detty December. My remit, as always, was to listen and observe. One of my long-standing gripes about Lagos is the sheer impossibility of confidently whipping out a camera in public without attracting Area Boys. Try it, and you’ll likely end up paying a “reacquisition fee” just to reunite with your own belongings.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
1914reader.com | Feyi Fawehinmi
We are still reading Capitalism in the Colonies as evident in the 3 reviews published so far. But there are some broader themes that don’t really fit into a chapter by chapter discussion that we wanted to talk about. So we got together to try out a podcast. The main talking point was an exploration of the relationship and distinction between trade and markets, emphasising the historical context of market creation in Nigeria.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Feyi Fawehinmi
The UK Times has this paragraph as a summary of Nigeria’s participation in the Paris 2024 Olympics:Nigeria failed to come away with any medals at Paris 2024, despite having 88 athletes there. That was the largest contingent by a country at this Olympics that didn’t manage to win a medal. Eighty-eight was the most representatives they’ve sent to a summer Olympics, so the world’s sixth largest nation by population will be disappointed with their return.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
1914reader.com | Feyi Fawehinmi
There’s a post going around with Akinwunmi Adesina’s name on it. It has also been posted by the billionaire, Femi Otedola, on his twitter account. The nature of social media is that it is always hard to tell if the post really originated from the person whose name is attached to it. At any rate, it can always be denied by that person later.
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May 31, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Feyi Fawehinmi
Another day, another story of a multinational company exiting Nigeria after initially being lured by the prospect of riches to be made from selling its products to millions of Nigerians. This time it is the Huggies diaper maker, Kimberley Clark:Diaper and sanitary pad manufacturer, Kimberley Clark will soon announce an imminent shutdown of its Ikorodu production facility two years after investing $100 million in Nigeria.
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May 31, 2024 | 
1914reader.com | Feyi Fawehinmi
Another day, another story of a multinational company exiting Nigeria after initially being lured by the prospect of riches to be made from selling its products to millions of Nigerians. This time it is the Huggies diaper maker, Kimberley Clark:Diaper and sanitary pad manufacturer, Kimberley Clark will soon announce an imminent shutdown of its Ikorodu production facility two years after investing $100 million in Nigeria.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
businessday.ng | Feyi Fawehinmi
In 1912, a pamphlet was published in colonial Lagos under the title An appeal from the native traders of Lagos to the financiers of Great Britain. The pamphlet was the culmination of long running complaints by Nigerian traders (note Nigeria as we know it today did not yet exist then) about the British Bank of West Africa (BBWA) discriminating against them in how it made loans.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
businessday.ng | Feyi Fawehinmi
…The story of rice and Nigeria is more interesting than you thinkNigeria is going through a severe economic crisis that is perhaps the worst in a generation. The currency has broken all psychological barriers against the dollar and food inflation shows no sign of letting up. Things are not quite yet at hyperinflation levels but prices of everything seem to change daily and only head in one direction.
