7 August 2026
Course Allocation
The national formula for matching students to courses.
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We are documenting what came before social media, using the memory of those who were there. What do you remember from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 2000s?
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It began as friends arguing about Messi and Ronaldo.
Sports & Fandom · Published 8 July 2026
The national formula for matching students to courses.
Decades of closing public universities.
Car washes and open-air gardens take on second jobs as nightlife hubs.
Afrobeats conquered the world.
Tech & Apps
Sports & Fandom
Business & Hustle
Records & Glory
Business & Hustle
Ventures that went from smart move to street-by-street saturation.
Trends, platforms and online economies we loved to death.
Products, price windows and platform loopholes that did not survive us.
National achievements and the stampede that followed them.
The beautiful game and the business of arguing about it.
Screens, stages and the stampede toward them.
Services and institutions built for everyone, worn down by repetition, neglect or capture.
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Learn tech, earn in dollars.
No-collateral loans turned your contact list into the ultimate leverage.
Leaving the country became a content genre.
Buy cheap from China, sell dear in Lagos.
A Russian mathematician promised 30% to a recession-hit nation.
The online handout turned into a follower acquisition strategy.
A shop opens on every street.