The Three-Month Sprint was initially conceived as a two-part series.
In the first part, I journeyed back to the formative moments that shaped my intellectual vocation, from a chance discovery of Sigmund Freud in the University of Calabar Library to the enduring influence of Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci. The essay explored how a journalist’s persistent quest to understand why Nigeria bleeds eventually produced three original frameworks that have now entered global scholarly discourse.
The second part examined a vocabulary that did not exist before the Sprint began. The Insecurity Triad, the Trinity of State Decay (TSD), and the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI) each demanded new language because the realities they sought to capture had outgrown inherited categories. That essay traced this new grammar, charting the concepts it generated, the architecture of collapse it described, and the possibilities of renewal it suggested.
I sat with both essays for some time and arrived at an unsettling conclusion.
What was produced in 91 days—from March 8, when The Sunday Stew debuted as a syndicated column, to June 7, when the DSI was unveiled—appears to have very few parallels not only in media history but also in the wider ecosystem of knowledge production.
