The world on the brink: Rethinking Nigeria’s place in a fractured world

The world feels increasingly uncertain. Across continents, conversations about the future are clouded by fear, scepticism, and fatigue. Public narratives are shaped less by truth than by the constant recycling of crisis. It is as though humanity has become addicted to despair, sustaining conflict, amplifying outrage, and selling suffering as if it were a global commodity.

We can use the media as an example. News has become a theatre of propaganda; interviews are more performance than