Moyosore Orekoya understands if you can’t separate the artist from the art. But he can.

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’. Our questions are italicized. What books or kinds of books did you read growing up? Neither of my parents were academics but they had an unshakeable belief in the power of a good education. They tried thei

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