Chemical Engineer and author of ‘Democracy Questioned: How Democracy Can Fail Us, and What to do About It’, Moyosore Orekoya, writes and edits ‘in chunks’, finding before editing ‘the golden mean sweet spot where I write an ‘idea’ or a standalone chunk of the article’.
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