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Why The Nigerian Diaspora Won’t Return Home

This is my favorite quote from the comments section:

Second, I’ve been thinking… the food needs to change too. From my recent experience, you cannot eat a full plate of eba, amala, or pounded yam and expect to go study right away, or return to work right away. Can you work late into the night on a full plate of amala? Can you grab lunch and go, eat on the run with eba? Can you have a lunch business meeting with a client and conquer a plate of pounded yam?

I think we need to find a way to transform our traditional dishes for the masses, to make them more productive.

And don’t forget hardwork must be inculcated into all levels of society. Then Nigeria will transform seemingly by itself.

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Economist Joseph Stiglitz on What We Can Expect to Hear About the US Economy in the First Presidential Debate

The Nobel prize-winning economist and author of The Price of Inequality spoke with WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane on RadioTimes this morning and shared his predictions on how President Obama and Governor Romney will approach questions about the state of the US economy in the Presidential Debate on Wednesday night. 

Listen to the full RadioTimes interview.

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Double-edged saws

New York based design studio, Vault49, has created these hand-painted saws as part of a statement project about international budget cuts, called “(SUB)PRIME-CUTS” 

In their own words:

“Budgets are being butchered all around the world, and even worse it’s been done in such bad taste. These finely crafted financial tools should trim the fat nicely. Sink your teeth into these viciously hand-crafted beauties.”

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