Emmanuel-Francis’s Knowledge Works

KW Digest

Many things a Nigerian might wanna know

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KW Digest

Most of the stuff a Nigerian might wanna know

Oct 6 • 

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September 2025

Sirafi Blues

A Book Review

Sep 20 • 

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August 2025

No Country for Jasmine

A Review of The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 2

Aug 30 • 

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What Hath Tien-di Wrought?

A Review of Volume One of The Cambridge History of China

Aug 16 • 

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July 2025

The Playground Syndicate

A Venezuelan Prison Gang and Our Cyberpunk Future

Jul 29 • 

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Ghosts of the Confluence

The Gold-fuelled Odyssey of the Janjaweed Praetorians

Jul 27 • 

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Bring up the Bodies

The Word and the Weight of History

Jul 20 • 

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THE TARGARYEN LAD CONQUERS DORNE

Silken Chang’an Rides West

Jul 19 • 

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Courts, Crowns & Capital

From Erlitou to Versailles: The rise, transformation and afterlives of royal courts

Jul 14 • 

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The Vicious Dance of Effort and Emptiness

How unrelenting competition sustains civilisation, deepens inequality, and keeps us chasing a mirage we dare not question.

Jul 12 • 

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What Wall? Or How the Wildlings Became Chinese

Assimilation, Ambition, and the Periphery of Imperial China

Jul 9 • 

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