We explore the origins of Nigeria's fuel subsidy and popular resistance to its removal, aided by sociologist Camilla Houeland (@CamillaHoueland) -- a researcher at the Fafo, Norway, and associate professor in Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. Have Nigeria's Labour Unions given up on resisting the removal of the subsidy? What should we make of environmentalist criticisms of policies that seem to promote the use of fossil fuels? Why do petrol subsidies remain an important point of leverage for Nigerian working class and poor households? How might some of the flaws and fraudulent loopholes of the subsidy be reformed?
What's Left of the Nigerian Left Ep 1: The Socialist Library and Archive (SOLAR) Calabar ft. Chido Onumah
33. #EndHunger Protests : From Economic Crisis to Political Crisis?
32. A Nigerian Communist in Vietnam
31. Eco was, Ecowars, Ecoworse
30. Was national liberation the scam?
Scam Hall of Fame Ep 3: Agricultural marketing boards in colonial and 'independent' Nigeria
29. Why we struck
28. Precolonial Capitalism to the First Republic ft. @iyi_bobby
27. Mohbad protests, celebrities and social (non-)movements
25. Subsidy removal and popular resistance pt. 1
24. Niger coup, Ecowas idiocy, and Left military vanguardism
23. Afro-Marxism in Nollywood? - A review of Saworoide (1999)
22. Did the Left learn anything from the Obidient Wave? Part 1
21. "Buhari walked so that Tinubu could run": From right wing-statism to the Lagos Model
Scam Hall of Fame Ep 2: The time Nigeria imported White Zimbabwean Farmers
20. Marxism vs Obi-ism pt.2: A Socialist Labour Party candidate in the National Assembly? ft. Ayo Ademiluyi
19. Election Post-mortem: class, ideology, and consciousness
18. Was it rigged?
17. 2023 -- Naira Scarcity, Elections, and Elite Roforofo
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