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Moses Ebe Ochonu is a Nigerian academic, historian, author and professor of African History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He has been the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in History since 2017.

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It is important to critique this blind devotion to the neoliberal jargons and grammar of anticorruption.

African workers seem to have done a better job of adapting to this reality than their Western counterparts.

Globalization is neither an inevitable process nor an inescapable event.

Afro-defeatism is my coinage and is a lexical cousin to Afro-pessimism.

The reality of leadership has exploded the illusion of Buhari’s messianic abilities and exposed him as a prisoner of power – in other words, as just another politician.

Corruption generates secondary and tertiary ripples and transactional economies that benefit even the pepper seller in the market.

The former textile workers of Kaduna did not capitulate to the forces of globalization.

The Marvel Comics movie, Black Panther, is more than a feel-good movie moment for Africans and people of African descent.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Moses Ochonu (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.