@Echecrates

Co-founder @Afropolitan | Building the first digital nation for the African diaspora. Tech, culture & sovereignty without borders.

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined April 2009
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Learning How to Find My Way Home

Ten years ago, I was turning 26, living in San Francisco in a house where I rented one of the rooms.

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A hungry man cannot vote. He can queue. He can thumbprint. He can hold up the stained finger for the photograph. But his ballot was decided weeks earlier, for ₦5,000. New piece inspired by our latest podcast with @grvlagos

A Hungry Man Cannot Vote

A hungry man cannot vote.

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The Olodo Uprising: Why We Can No Longer Write Common Sense

In the winter of 1776, in a rented room above a print shop in Philadelphia, a failed corset-maker named Thomas Paine finished a pamphlet of forty-seven pages and published it without his name on it.

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We Kept the Pain and Lost the Purpose

I’ve been reading about the Second World War lately, and one detail will not leave me alone.

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The Grief That Comes After Arrival

Boris Kodjoe’s father left Ghana to become a doctor in Germany.

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The Game Is Rigged. Jay-Z Still Won.

Yes, the game is rigged.

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The Borrowed House: South Africa, Pan-Africanism, and the Conversation We Keep Avoiding

A clip of Vusi Thembekwayo started circulating this week. In it, he argues that South Africans aren't xenophobic, that the tension between Black South Africans and foreign Africans, particularly Niger…

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You Can't Build the State Before You Build the Nation

In 2022, Chika and I shared something that we believed with our whole chests.

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The Human Cost of Bad Governance

An H-1B engineer’s mother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.

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What You Won't Sacrifice Will Eventually Sacrifice You

God gives you what you've prayed for. Then asks if you're willing to lay it down.

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The Exit Is Closing

The African middle class never organized because we always had the option to leave. What happens when we can't?

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To the Brilliant Ones Who Are Quietly Drowning

I've been watching some of you.

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