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David Hundeyin
Personal blog · westafricaweekly.substack.compoliticsbusiness
David Hundeyin's personal blog at westafricaweekly.substack.com covers politics and business. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Flutterwave: The African Unicorn Built on Quicksand”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for detailed breakdowns of Nigerian politics, such as how the country's leadership came to be filled with terror apologists and criminals.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
No-holds-barred analysis, intelligence and key stories from keen West African eyes.
Most-linked posts?
- Flutterwave: The African Unicorn Built on Quicksand2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-12
What Hacker News says?
David Hundeyin did a detailed breakdown of how Nigeria's leadership came to be packed with terror apologists & criminals in under 8 years. [0] [0]:Cornflakes for Jihad - https://westafricaweekly.substack.com/p/cornflakes-for-jihad...
Comment linking /p/cornflakes-for-jihad-the-boko-haram
on “The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets”Submitted Suicide, Fraud and Phillips Consulting: West Africa's Chinese Loan Shark Mafia as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWe also just elected a documented drug trafficker and very corrupt individual [1] as our next President, so there's that. We are poor and sliding back in every statistic that tracks economic and material wellbeing, and yet keep voting in horrible leaders (blame the Northern part filled people more concerned about tribalism than their economic wellbeing). But, sure, open banking! 1- https://westafricaweekly.substack.…
Comment linking /p/bola-ahmed-tinubu-from-drug-lord
on “Nigeria is first African nation to ratify open banking operational regulations”Submitted Flutterwave: The African Unicorn Built on Quicksand as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Flutterwave: The African Unicorn Built on Quicksand as a story · 4 points
HN discussion