the promise of postapartheid South Africa has not been realized. For its part, Nigeria was a British colony for a century before gaining its independence in 1960. The country’s subsequent history can only be described as deeply troubled; its initial decades were marked by civil war, secessionist challenges, and military rule. Its politics seem to

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Basically, there are always a lot of problems in the world, and the media is always happy to deliver them right to your doorstep in order to drive engagement. And so there’s a natural tendency to read the news and think that the world is going to Hell in a handbasket. But these problems aren’t all related, and in fact sometimes some of them help... See more

it is a technocracy nevertheless. One that is about to take over the US government, in a movement that has worrying parallels and rhymes with McNamara’s Whiz Kids in the 60s. I expect the story to unfold about as well. The visions of a self-congratulating anointed technocracy never work out as expected, regardless of its ideological origins.

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