We spoke with marxist public interest lawyer and #EndSARS activist Ayo Ademiluyi (@AYOADEMILUYI) about his campaign for House of Representatives under the Nigerian Labour Party.

Our tenth episode (!) considers electoral and economic questions as APC delegates arrive in Abuja:  

Are the ruling party primaries of significant to the Left? 

etc, etc. Enjoy responsibly. 

In this far-reaching and sometimes tense discussion, we interviewed Offiong Aqua, one of the leaders of the historic 1978 Ali-Must-Go student protests (which we will come back to, don't worry) about his background in radical student politics in the military era, his sojourn in the Soviet Union, his perspective on the Russia/Ukraine (/NATO) conflict, and his more recent advocacy for independence and self-determination for the people of Akwa Ibom. While we were not necessarily flying the flag for the Ibom People's Republic by the end, the Comrade responded with exemplary poise, particularly to Emeka provocations. Enjoy -- and, as usual, comments welcome.

In this episode with Immaculate Abba (@thisNneoma on twitter), we interrogate the claim that Africapitalism is an attempt to develop a genuinely productive national bourgeoisie. But is it Elumelu's $100m gamble or gambit?

What Does Africapitalism Actually Mean? by Immaculate Abba

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A year away from the general and presidential elections and the race is already heating up. Let’s speculate!

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In this episode, we discuss the class and economic forces that shaped EndSARS, grapple with lingering questions hounding the movements future and investigate Emeka’s looting proclivities. And of course there was so much to talk about, we had to break the episode in two. 

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OAG and Sa’eed spend the intro berating the ethnic/religious secessionist movements for being bad at history and geography and even worse at redistributive politics. Then Emeka joins in during the heart of the episode, where we offer some initial reflections on why the idea of the scam seemed an apt description for our show — and for our country (and the nation-state model more generally). 

Who independence epp?

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Part 1 of The 70's Series 

In this review of the Nollywood film "'76", we discover (to no ones surprise) that Rita Dominic is one of the greatest actresses of her generation, that geriatrics are infiltrating our ranks and, that Murtala Muhammed was not a communist.  There's also some other stuff about the influence of military wives in national politics and the unheralded impact of radical ideas in 1970’s Nigeria (more on this soon..) 

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References and Additional Reading: 

The CIA in Nigeria

Class Struggle in Africa by Kwame Nkrumah (Chapter 7)

Class Struggle in Africa by Kwame Nkrumah (Chapter 8)

Khaki in the Family: Gender Discourses and Militarism in Nigeria

Music:

Miriam Makeba - The Naughty Little Flea 

Monomono - Tire Loma Nigbehin

In our much-anticipated comeback episode, we discuss the limitations of online politics, the (probably) now expanded surveillance capacities of our ruling elite, and why you shouldn't trust Jack Dorsey.

Additional Reading:

NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, licensed to governments around the globe, can infect phones without a click

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In this episode, recorded mid-week, we discuss #OccupyLekkiTollGate, #DefendLagos, the violent eviction of residents of Ashanti settlement, and the non-existence of class analysis in Nigeria. How should the nascent left respond to the redux of spontaneous protests? Are we jumping from hashtag to hashtag? What is our minimum program for engaging the toiling masses? Is class analysis Eurocentric? etc, etc. 

Read about state sponsored violence against a community that witnessed the Oct 20 massacre

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