BIOGRAPH

We are building a biographical directory that documents lives and preserves institutional memory.

[Oche Akor @OcheAkor4]

This is an important research worth a few minutes of your time.

[Disaffected Nigerian @LukeOlaniyi]

I recently gave a presentation at the @_zanzalu vanguard residency titled The Paradox of Elite Overproduction and Elite Underproduction in Africa. This was inspired by @Peter_Turchin’s book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration.

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This week, Biograph's lens falls on @diimejii.

He's not the first man to love his family. He might be the first to make an entire generation of Nigerian men quietly wish they'd been fathered differently.

Read it here: https://t.co/v4ELA4iQNb

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We are pulling back the curtain on something new.

Every week, we will profile a person of interest through the public trail they have already left behind: their posts and public interviews.

First up: @chinonsoogbogu, founder of Sabi Writers: https://t.co/7ijYu4Q5Bc

[Disaffected Nigerian @LukeOlaniyi]

Niger, Nationalization, and Resource Nationalism

#mining #naturalresources #somair #france #niger

[BIOGRAPH @bioograph90]

He was one of the biggest comedians in Nigeria in the 1980s. Today very few people remember John Chukwu. This week, we dug up his story. https://t.co/bSADN4V6dX

[Chimu-dimu-mma @ChidimmaRuth1]

@bioograph90 @Rovingheights @taradurotoye @tryselar @IbukunAwosika @VusiThembekway0 What I love to read…❤️

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@taradurotoye just dropped a book and it's giving everything Nigerian entrepreneurs have been asking for.
House of Tara didn't happen by accident. Now you can learn exactly how. 📖
Available on @Rovingheights & @tryselar

[BIOGRAPH @bioograph90]

@taradurotoye just dropped a book and it's giving everything Nigerian entrepreneurs have been asking for.
House of Tara didn't happen by accident. Now you can learn exactly how. 📖
Available on @Rovingheights & @tryselar

[BIOGRAPH @bioograph90]

*Essay collections

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Prof Wole Soyinka has written 25 plays, 7 poetry collections, 5 memoirs, 3 novels and 10 essays across a career that spans over 60 years.

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Dora Akunyili took on the counterfeit drug mafia. She survived assassination attempts and reduced fake drugs in Nigeria by 80%. She documented that journey in 'The War Against Counterfeit Medicine: My Story.' Her daughter also documented her story in 'I Am Because We Are.'

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@Beautiful_Nubia started composing music at 9. He told himself he would grow up to be a musician, writer and scientist. He became all three. He documented his life and travails in his autobiography 'Sounds of Joy. '

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📌 Profile Check

Olatunji Rilwan Disu born 13 Apr 1966, is Nigeria’s Acting Inspector-General of Police. He joined the Nigeria Police Force on 18 May 1992 and has spent 34 years in the force.

#NewIG #policeIG #kayodeegbetokun

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"In a society where most people did not have a bath more than half-a-dozen times a year, the Christians were in a class by themselves."

Excerpt from the autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

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What do you remember about her tenure as EFCC boss?

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The first and the only female EFCC boss in Nigeria.
Check the comment for more.
#sack #benue #EFCC #Faridawaziri

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In June 2008, Waziri became the first female EFCC Chair.

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How did he do it?
Watch out for the next episode.

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Everyone knows Lugard. But almost no one remembers George Goldie — the man who built the foundation Lugard stood on. His name didn’t fade by accident. He made sure of it himself.

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Its commercial legacy survives today through the United Africa Company, known today as Unilever.

From fixing a small company, his firm gained the right to rule vast parts of what is now Northern Nigeria — long before Britain officially took over.