This week's free-to-read newsletter is a huge one.

I thought I was going to write about a heated debate in Nigerian lit, but the topic grew.

The coup in Niger (north of Nigeria), the complexity of state formation in the shadow of colonialism & amid the press of today's geopolitics, myths of national cohesion that come pressingly to bear on literary conversation as much as in political uprising...

There's a lot here.

I hope there's something thought-provoking for you.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/nigerien-trauma-nigerian-lit-and