The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
Author: Will Durant, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Medal of Freedom / compiled and edited by John Little What is your motivation for reading a book? Perhaps just like me, for a variety of reasons. But one thing is very clear, reading wide provides one of the bases for a wide perspective of […]
Lagos: Supernatural City – Tales of Survival, Spirituality, and the Struggle for Power in Africa’s Biggest Metropolis
Author – Tim Cocks Lagos is the “place” in Nigeria, and the place has perhaps been captured best in this book. A book like this is always a good read because it provides a perspective, often a dispassionate one, of an outsider looking inside. Most times, they are often able to describe a pattern that […]
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Author – Michael L. Ross Did you know that Nigeria’s real per capita income has rarely changed since independence? The graph below shows Nigeria’s per capita income 1960 – 2019, before Covid – 19 and the Russia / Ukraine shocks. It shows that the average Nigerian is better off by just US $1,000, compared to […]
Reforming the Unreformable – Lessons from Nigeria
Author: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala This is not a new book, but it is perhaps the most relevant book for Nigeria today. While “why growth matters” provided the successful reform story in India, this book provides the first-hand experience of the challenges of reforms in Nigeria. There are so many reasons why this book is relevant for […]
Why Growth Matters – How Economic Growth in India reduced poverty and the lessons for other developing countries
Authors: Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya This book has been around for about a decade, but a good book to read nonetheless in the week that Nigeria has a new President and a new impetus for economic growth in Nigeria to understand again how India pursued economic growth through comprehensive reforms since 1991. First, a […]
Cobalt Red – How the blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Author: Siddharth Kara, Associate Professor of human trafficking and modern slavery at Nottingham University, UK. This is a book about the Congo, Africa, minerals, policies, leadership (responsibility), and raw capitalism. Siddarth, following three-year research in the Congo, has provided a detailed account of how the search for a better life and environment by the world, […]
Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work
Author – Jackie Fast I think it is fitting this review coincides Hilda Baci breaking the Guinness World Record (GWR) for marathon cooking, beating the record set in 2019 by Lata Tondon. Cooking for 100 hours at a stretch is the kind of rebellious leadership that Jackie wrote about in this fascinating book. The first […]
Collapse and Recovery: How the Covid – 19 pandemic eroded human capital and what to do about it.
Authors: Nobert Schady, Alaka Holla, Shwetlena Sarbawal, Joana Silva, and Andres Yi Chang At the World Bank / International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meeting 2023, this report was one of the most important released. While it is widely recognised that Covid – 19 pandemic impact on human capital was huge, little was known about the […]
ThinkBusiness Newsletter for 1st May 2023
1 May 2023 E kaaro o, Ututu Oma, Barka da Safiya – Good morning, happy workers day, and welcome to ThinkBusiness Nigeria. ThinkBusiness Nigeria newsletter provides essential strategic information on markets, macro, and political economy issues and dimensions that drives business and markets. It provides the highly mobile professional, investor, businessperson with the essential information […]