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Bad Samaritans: the Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat To Global Prosperity

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Seun Kolade

Author: Ha-Joon Chang Publisher: Random House, 2007 276 pages. You’ve probably heard the Gospel of Free Market: if a country wants to break the cycle of poverty and achieve economic growth and prosperity, it should deregulate, open up its market,… Continue Reading →

Book reviews, Policy issues

The case for Christianity part 1: The ontology of Christian theism

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Seun Kolade

When you pick up, on a typical day, the arguments of atheists and agnostics against the Christian worldview, you almost always get the sense of straw men on the loose. You hear of god up there “in the sky”, of… Continue Reading →

Apologetics

“Daddy Pastors”: a matter of ignorance and fear

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Seun Kolade

In the first installment of this series, we focused on the idea that the advent of Daddy Pastors is associated with the struggle for domination and control. In this series, we want to explore the issues of ignorance and fear.… Continue Reading →

Devotionals, Publications

“Daddy Pastors”: the struggle for domination and control

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Seun Kolade

  In his second epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul was quick to point out that, while he had the responsibility as a leader of the church to correct and rebuke erring believers, and encourage church discipline, he was… Continue Reading →

Devotionals, Publications

Book Review: Pedagogy of the oppressed

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Seun Kolade

  Author: Paulo Freire      Publisher: The Continuum Publishing Company                               Date: 1970 When Paulo Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the world was in the middle of fierce ideological war. The iron curtain was firmly shut, and the fire of anti-colonial… Continue Reading →

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Book Review: The Mystery of Capital

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Seun Kolade

Author: Hernando De Soto Transworld Publishers, 2000 276 pages “The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its hour of crisis”. This is Hernando De Soto’s opening statement in what has now become a classic of property rights. He starts with… Continue Reading →

Book reviews, Viewpoints

Nigeria: another way

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Seun Kolade

Introduction The modern nation of Nigeria was born in 1960 amidst fanfare. As of then, forty six years had elapsed since the British amalgamation, in 1914, of the Northern and Southern Protectorates of Nigeria. The nationalist fathers fought a good… Continue Reading →

Institutions, Invited talks

The competitive advantage of nations

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Seun Kolade

 (2nd edition) Author: Michael E. Porter Publisher: Palgrave, New York, 1998 855 pages Unlike David Landes’ Wealth and Poverty of Nations, which was unashamedly an euro-centric take on the political history of development, and unlike Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and… Continue Reading →

Book reviews, Institutions

Predestination and free will

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Seun Kolade

A fresh look at Christian beliefs on the Ultimate Sovereignty of God and Significance of Humans   Introduction One of big questions that have attracted the attention of people throughout the ages is the question of the significance of human… Continue Reading →

Apologetics, Publications

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