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.
Three Igbo Sisters at the National Theatre
Inua Ellams' version of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Lyttleton Theatre at the National, reimagined into the setting of the Biafran war, just catapulted into my top ten of theatre experiences. All round – the acting, the direction, the staging, the music and...
My last words on the 2019 UK Election with final thoughts taken from James Baldwin
Over the last few weeks I have followed a number of people on Social Media for ‘News & Views’. Here are my Awards for the best and the worst during the election period. My No.1 for a thoughtful, if not always calling it correctly, attempt at genuine analysis from...
Professor Wole Soyinka’s Review of NQTI – The Video
It was such an amazing honour to have Professor Soyinka give the Review of "NQTI" (Never Quite The Insider) at Terra Kulture in Lagos on October 17th and I am delighted that we are now able to post it. Kadaria Ahmed asked Seun Adeleye of Custom 360 to film the whole...
Why I am taking this election so personally Part II – Vote for Compassion
Part II In the first part of this Blog I wrote about how my mate John’s personal tragedy has contributed to the intensity of my feelings about this election. In the last paragraph I wrote, “Our Society, driven by the most recent Conservative and Labour...
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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