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By Suraj Yengde Suraj Yengde, who earned his PhD from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, is currently reading

THE scholar and researcher had taken a trip to an open market. There, he met a female fishmonger. Attracted by the casual attention this...

The interminable fuel queues which began last week have become, to Nigerians, another painful encounter with the one-year old Tinubu government. Those encounters, in close to 365 days now, have, according to Festus Adedayo, become the proverbial numerous smelly teeth of the Adipele.

It was precisely on Saturday, October 10, 1998 at Frank Kokori’s Yaba, Lagos house. Tinubu and other NADECO activists had just returned to Nigeria the day before after exiling abroad. Sitting beside him, I asked Tinubu what impression he had of Nigeria upon his arrival. His response: “Retrogression, rolling backwards, on reverse gear; that is my impression. Sad. That people are still queuing at the petrol stations, spend more productive hours at the petrol stations than in economic sector.

If government’s secret police still do their work effectively, let them compile the articulations of bilious hatred for Tinubu today.

This is an excerpt from the new e-book Surveillance Nation: Critical Reflections on Privacy and Its Threats, a fascinating and timeless alternative history on the rise of the surveillance state.

Suryashekhar Biswas — By studying the policies and actions of the Aam Aadmi Party, we can evaluate its role in the current political landscape and understand its impact on the working class.

A conversation with Agustín Laje, author of "Batalla Cultural: Reflexiones Críticas para una Nueva Derecha."

Raju J Das — For peasants to enhance their success in getting their demands met in India (as elsewhere in the Global South, with its belated capitalist development), there must be a worker peasant alliance.

Yengde shared photos of him participating in the event with DuVernay on his Twitter account.