https://suleimana.com/ Essays and arguments on nation building, context, and the informal economy, by Abubakar Suleiman. en-gb Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://abubakarsuleiman.medium.com/invest-lagos-3-0-a-game-of-trust-c5a3f12600a5 https://suleimana.com/writing/invest-lagos-3-0 An address on why the next investment breakthrough rests on domestic confidence and price stability. Capital is not emotional, but it has memory. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman.medium.com/the-great-recalibration-fcf6f49810ed https://suleimana.com/writing/the-great-recalibration Africa does not have a large white-collar class to be disrupted. It has a vast informal sector to be augmented, and the risk is a computational divide rather than job loss. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman.medium.com/the-architecture-of-context-why-we-misjudge-almost-everything-bcfcf31ad4ac https://suleimana.com/writing/the-architecture-of-context A 42-storey tower is a giant from the street and a dwarf from the 95th floor. On why context is the lens through which information acquires meaning. Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman.medium.com/life-as-a-venture-627275520f8f https://suleimana.com/writing/life-as-a-venture Live like a venture capitalist, not a merchant bank. On backing character before it is proven, following on when results lag, and expecting power-law outcomes from people. Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman.medium.com/between-ameen-and-amen-fbe8388b1e25 https://suleimana.com/writing/between-ameen-and-amen Two words so alike they are nearly indistinguishable, turned into an unbridgeable divide. On who benefits when shared deprivation is recast as sectarian suspicion. Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman.medium.com/a-pilgrimage-to-the-hither-land-four-journeys-across-nigeria-7b54a46ffbd9 https://suleimana.com/writing/a-pilgrimage-to-the-hither-land Four journeys across Nigeria in five years — a forest, an island, warm springs and a creek — and the discovery that our land is enough. Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman.medium.com/think-global-go-global-the-diversity-of-one-b01a597d357d https://suleimana.com/writing/think-global-go-global A talk on the diversity of one: a pickup truck to Otukpo, a BATA shop sign, and how a single person can hold more difference than any label allows. Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman.medium.com/beyond-politics-the-elites-role-in-nation-building-183fa8512400 https://suleimana.com/writing/beyond-politics Politics is transactional and operates in electoral cycles. Nation building is transformational and spans generations. On the three pillars and the elite’s particular responsibility. Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman-33690.medium.com/message-to-my-president-in-the-making-5f25fac64072 https://suleimana.com/writing/message-to-my-president-in-the-making A note to an incoming president: respect those who employ, tax the wealthy, retire the subsidies, and stop mistaking regulation for revenue. Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman-33690.medium.com/habits-maketh-a-nation-b122029f2d83 https://suleimana.com/writing/habits-maketh-a-nation The habits a country must give up before its circumstances can change, beginning with the attraction to hopelessness. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman-33690.medium.com/the-limit-of-money-4ede6a291589 https://suleimana.com/writing/the-limit-of-money Money is a language for communicating economic activity, not an asset. Separated from real things it conveys nothing, because value must be created before it can be represented. Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman-33690.medium.com/this-is-not-a-feel-good-post-ceb451a72140 https://suleimana.com/writing/this-is-not-a-feel-good-post Each generation has handed the next a broken inheritance. On the apology that is not coming, and why the waiting has to end. Sun, 23 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman https://abubakarsuleiman-33690.medium.com/on-becoming-a-listening-twat-b1281a457529 https://suleimana.com/writing/on-becoming-a-listening-twat Thinking, writing, acting and talking. On the discipline of the empty cup, and why so few of our leaders write down what they believe. Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT Abubakar Suleiman