Never Quite An Insider.
A Nigerian memoir.
Twenty years of running multiple businesses in Nigeria qualifies me to write an instructive memoir. Indeed, having blown the whistle on corruption in one multi-national, faced two years of threats and intimidation in the ‘wild east’ of Aba and then sought to change the course of one of Nigeria’s highest profile corporates, I believe I have insights that have value. Throw in some humour and a willingness to tackle controversial subjects and I present you with an unusual account of this misunderstood society and my love affair with it.
Chiswick Confined – the final Corona Blog LXXXI
“On that fundamental ground / Where love’s unwilled, unleashed, unbound / And half the perfect world is found.” Leonard Cohen
Chiswick Confined – My Corona Blog LXXX
Frankly, if The Raven was a Mountain Top Pub and if, when I was walking there on July 4th, I bumped into Johnson I would push him off the ledge.
Is this still Chiswick Confined ? Well, its a Corona poem Blog LXXIX
Deliberations on Different Types of Slavery by One Old White Guy.
Chiswick Confined – My Corona Blog LXXVIII
You go through changes, it may seem strange
Is this what you’re put here for?
You think you’re happy and you are happy
That’s what you’re happy for
There’s a man who can’t decide if he should
Fight for what his father thinks is right
There are people wearing frowns who’ll screw you up
But they would rather screw you down
Arthur Lee
About
Keith Richards
A book. A Column, Another book. A blog. There is too much racism, injustice, environmental damage, hypocrisy and the like out there to stay silent. So I am not going to. Because I can – and I care enough to want to.
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Outsider Inside.
Having harboured a desire to write for half a lifetime, BusinessDay gave me the opportunity with a weekly column. In 2007 these comments on Nigerian business, politics and society were collected and published. Many of them are as relevant to day as they were then.
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