HeyJaredKhaki & Leather
Essays on African politics, power, money, and the global systems shaping the continent. Receipts included.
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The Architecture Lost the Race (opens the original)
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“I think it’s over.”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="942" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Xlxg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0ca5
Constitutions to Smart Contracts (opens the original)
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Two weeks ago, America celebrated 250 years of independence. Fireworks. Flags. Barbecues. Speeches about freedom.Three months from now, Nigeria will celebrate 66 years of its own. Parades. Presidential addresses. The green-white-green. Speeches about sovereignty.Neither country is asking the right question: independent from what?Because here is the pattern, and it runs deeper than any flag ceremony on either continent. Power doesn’t disappear. It migrates to a deeper abstraction layer. And every
Grading Before Bailout (opens the original)
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Let’s get the naive read out of the way first: getting graded well by a foreign institution is not the same thing as being free. Nigeria just got placed on S&P Dow Jones Indices’ 2027 Watchlist for possible reclassification from “Standalone” market status to “Frontier” market status: announced Wednesday, July 8, 2026. The press language is warm: regulatory modernisation, improved transparency, stronger enforcement. Read pas
Best in the World, Worst in the Room (opens the original)
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Green heatmap, Sunday afternoon, everybody’s timeline. Dangote Cement up 71.92%. WAPCO up 150%. GTCO up almost 40%. Zenith Bank up 74.60%. Somebody’s screenshotting it like a WAEC result. <img alt="Image" class="sizing-normal" height="626" src="https://s
One Big, Beautiful Database (opens the original)
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Chat Control is bad. Yes. New? No.The European timeline spent this week performing shock. 314 MEPs voted against gutting their own citizens’ encrypted lives, the measure passed anyway on a technicality nobody explained to them in school, and everyone with a blue-check opinion suddenly discovered that platforms can read your messages. Where were all these people last month? Last year? The whole time, feeding every waking thought into American servers: no warrant required, no vote needed, because
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