Building4 min read
Capital Is a Coward
Money does not go where it is needed. It goes where it is safe. Once I stopped resenting that and started building for it, everything about raising capital, and refusing it, changed.
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Slow Is a Strategy
Everything around a Nigerian builder screams speed: the headlines, the devaluations, the overnight billionaires. I want to make the unfashionable argument for building slowly, on purpose.
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Legacy4 min read
Odo-Owa Taught Me Everything Lagos Couldn't
Lagos taught me speed, leverage, and the art of being underestimated. But the deepest lessons in wealth, reputation, and time came from a small town in Kwara where everyone knows your grandfather.
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