Olatunji Olaigbe
Temporary Fixes | The Limitations of USAID
Olatunji Olaigbe
I first learned about USAID in 2017 while I was working at a computer cafe in Ilorin, North Central Nigeria. Educators used to come in to photocopy teaching aids supplied by the agency — mostly materials to help students with reading comprehension. There were never as many packets as children who needed them: as of 2024, the region still has only a 55 percent literacy rate. I made a copy...
Dignity and Access | On Food and Power
Olatunji Olaigbe
Back during the end of history, Thomas Friedman presented his “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention” in a 1996 New York Times op-ed. As he put it, “no two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other.” There was “no question,” he declared, that McDonald’s “is part of this worldwide phenomenon of countries integrating with the global economy and submitting to its rules.” Today,...
