The most recent news from Nigeria and across the world is available at The News Chronicle. The News Chronicle provides the most recent headlines, commentary, and political news. The architecture of power in post-colonial Nigeria has long treated personal biography not as a fixed historical record etched in the archives of truth, but as a plastic art, a malleable text edited, rewritten, and drastically revised to fit the shifting exigencies of every electoral season. When a national leader’s foundational identity undergoes metamorphic shifts […] The post The Ghost in the Archives: Why the State-Sanctioned Lie of a Plastic Biography Is the Ultimate Subversion of the Republic appeared first on The News Chronicle.