Akinwumi Adesina: Feeding Africa, Financing Growth, and Leading with Optimism
Akinwumi Adesina transformed Nigerian agriculture and now leads AfDB with optimism, reframing Africa’s challenges as trillion-dollar opportunities.
Discover practical ideas, professional insight, thoughtful commentary and useful perspectives from Nigerians building, leading and creating.
201 articles
Akinwumi Adesina transformed Nigerian agriculture and now leads AfDB with optimism, reframing Africa’s challenges as trillion-dollar opportunities.
Adebayo Ogunlesi built a playbook for owning and operating world-class infrastructure—airports, energy assets, and transport—by stacking law, finance…

Philip Emeagwali’s story—part inspiration, part controversy—sparked African interest in high-performance computing and the power of parallel thinking.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie built a global voice without losing her Nigerian center—remaking how the world reads Africa, gender, and migration.

Anthony Joshua’s Lagos–London rise shows how discipline, reinvention, and brand ownership turn a boxer into a global business.

Scarcity mindset keeps Nigerians stuck; abundance mindset fuels success. Learn the mental shift needed.

The Super Eagles have talent, but can Nigeria win the FIFA World Cup? Examining strengths, weaknesses, and the reforms needed for global football glo…

Why do Nigerians still avoid hospitals despite urbanization? Explore cultural roots, trust issues, costs, and the reforms needed for real healthcare…

We are using the word denominations to represent different units of the church. The church mega, the church, according to some people that they call…

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, it wearies the heart, it can make the heart to be broken, it can make any man or woman to be discouraged, to lack…

The collapse of marriage as an institution brought the earth to a state of corruption and violence, and when God wanted to correct the anomaly, God s…

In conclusion, what is the difference between following the world and following Jesus? When you follow the world, this is what happens when you becom…

One of the things that we must understand about the Word of God is that it is practicable, the word of God is not vague, the word of God can be pract…

Recently I was thinking about it and I discovered that many African nations, it is just a cursory view of many African nations not being ruled or led…

The purpose of Jesus coming is so that you and I can live endlessly. We can live differently, we can live really and if this will happen, we must fee…

You don’t own your body, God owns your body, and that is why Paul said glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God’s

If you examine some of the best leaders leading the fastest growing organizations in the world, one thing you would discover that they have learnt in…

The will of God for your life is forever settled. The challenge many people have is basically how to partner with God for the realization and the ful…
