"If goodness has a cause, it is no longer goodness if it has a consequence-a reward, it is also not goodness. Therefore goodness is beyond the chain of cause and effect"- Levin, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Page 784

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Happy Birthday Sir...Have a blast

Reading Virgil's The AENEID, I realised that misinformation is as old as humanity. In Book IV, Virgil personifies rumor: "For she holds fast to falsehood and distortion as often as to messages of truth."-(Page 87, Book IV, The Aeneid, Mandelbaum transcription).

FOCAC' 2024: Xi Jinping doubles down on African cultural and media engagements: "The two sides will jointly implement the China-Africa ‘Cultural Silk Road’ programme and the ‘Broadcasting and Audiovisual Innovation Cooperation Programme’.

FOCAC' 2024: 'The two sides agreed to designate 2026 as the Year of China-Africa Humanities Exchange." This suggests an increase in exchanges for African journalists...

Hector reprimanded Alexandros (Paris) for his cowardice: “You ought to find out what sort of fellow he is whose wife you are keeping”(Book III, Iliad, translated by W.H.D Rouse). Simply put: Always consider the consequences of your action.

Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson, and Simon Johnson win Nobel Prize in Economics "studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity". ft.com/content/67e492…

In the jaws of the Crocodile ..... You can feed with limited freedom and as soon as you misbehave you are crushed. Does this relate to our contemporary politics ?

The Nigerian Police Arrest Chinese Hackers in Abuja: vanguardngr.com/2024/11/police… It happened in Kenya in 2014: theguardian.com/world/2014/dec…. Unfortunately, African countries will never learn a thing from these incidents.

Again, 148 Chinese, 645 others arrested for cyberfraud, romance scams in Lagos: punchng.com/148-chinese-64…

My book chapter, # ChinaMustExplain: A critical Discourse Analysis of Stigmatisation of Africans in China has been published: routledge.com/Entanglements-…

My op-ed on women participation in the Nigerian legislature is here: thenicheng.com/female-casualt…

As the US withdraws from Africa, China expands its media footprints across the continent: standardmedia.co.ke/africa/article…

If I were President Tinubu, I would take Natasha under my tutelage...She has the potential to excel in Naija politics.

Our article, Artificial Intelligence and Journalism in Four African Countries: Optimists, Pessimists, and Pragmatists, has been published in Journalism Practice:tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Thank you to the University of Johannesburg for making this research open access

You can now preorder my second book, China in African Media: Between Influence Operations and Decolonization: bloomsbury.com/us/china-in-af…

My latest with Caroline Costello ACGlobalChina in Foreign Policy! 🪵 China’s Appetite for Rosewood Is Causing Chaos in Africa foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/09/ros…

WOW! ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap this food delivery worker but the guy was too fast for those ICE agents! 👏🏽🔥