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The Sunday Stew: From Abuja to Hangzhou (1): A Handshake with the Chinese

Daily Dispatch August 23, 2026

By Max Amuchie It began, unexpectedly, with a telephone call one evening in May.I was at my desk in Abuja when my phone rang. On the other end was Kemi Yusufu, Publicity Secretary of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP). She had an unusual message. A friend had contacted her to say

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The Sunday Stew: The Sundiata Post Model (7): A Philosophical Triad and the Language of 21st-Century Journalism

Daily Dispatch August 16, 2026

By Max Amuchie Language does more than describe reality. It shapes how we perceive it.Every enduring discipline eventually develops its own vocabulary. Law has its language. Medicine has its language. Economics, engineering, diplomacy and computer science all possess conceptual vocabularies that enable practitioners to describe phenomena with greater precision than

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The Sunday Stew: The Sundiata Post Model (6): Institutional Success and Its Four Levels

Daily Dispatch August 9, 2026

By Max Amuchie In the preceding articles, I have argued that the twenty-first-century newsroom must evolve into a knowledge-producing institution; situated that proposition within a broader intellectual tradition; introduced the Dual Engine Architecture through which journalism and knowledge production become mutually reinforcing; and proposed the Realm of the Long Term

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The Sunday Stew: The Sundiata Post Model (5): Seven Pillars of the Realm of the Long Term

Daily Dispatch August 2, 2026

By Max Amuchie In the previous article, I introduced the concept of the Realm of the Long Term. I argued that every institution eventually arrives at a stage where the central question is no longer whether it can perform today, but whether it can continue creating public value across generations. At that point, management ceases […]

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The Sunday Stew: The Sundiata Post Model (4): Realm of the Long Term

Daily Dispatch July 26, 2026

By Max Amuchie This fourth instalment of the Sundiata Post Model asks the inevitable question: What must a knowledge-producing newsroom do to survive, adapt and remain relevant across generations? That question is the gateway to what we call the Realm of the Long Term.Every institution eventually enters the Realm of the Long Term. It is […]

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The Sunday Stew: The Sundiata Post Model (3): The Dual Engine Architecture

Daily Dispatch July 19, 2026

By Max Amuchie | The Sunday Stew In the 7 June 2026 article which marked the formal unveiling of the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI), I articulated a defining institutional proposition. The launch of the DSI was presented not merely as the introduction of a new analytical instrument, but as another milestone in the evolution of […]