Launched under the ‘Big Ideas platform’ at the Yar’adua Centre in Abuja on Friday, 22nd January, the volume is, on one level, a learning document drawn from the MacArthur Foundation’s On Nigeria Program, which ran for nearly a decade before winding down in 2024. On another level, it is a meditation on power, on who gets to stand close to it and who is perpetually pushed to its outer edges, and on what it actually costs an institution to choose equity over comfort.

