Kelechi Lawrence Nwannunu is the CEO of Free Future Foundation and an alumnus of the 2025 Emerging Leaders Program at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. He earned a degree in history and international studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His main areas of interest include entrepreneurship, public policy, and civic engagement.
Posts by Kelechi L. Nwannunu
December 09, 2025
Albert Jay Nock, the early-20th-century American social critic, offered a vision of education that challenged the prevailing assumptions of his time. He warned that mass schooling, designed primarily to transmit information and enforce conformity, often comes at the expense of independent judgment, moral imagination, and personal responsibility.
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November 03, 2025
Nigeria’s Christian community was long thought to be a place of promise. Its churches have been engines of education, charity, and civic formation. Its believers have been pastors, teachers, entrepreneurs, and peacemakers.
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October 02, 2025
For many outside Africa, the word
ubuntu is just a software brand or a vague slogan about togetherness. In much of sub-Saharan Africa, however, it is a moral tradition. It frames human beings as deeply relational and bound to one another in mutual care.
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September 05, 2025
At a United Nations event, Nigerian biomedical scientist Obianuju Ekeocha responded to a Western official’s claim that denying African women access to abortion was a form of colonization. Her reply went viral, not because it was loud, but because it was rooted.
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July 17, 2025
In the heart of Nigeria’s bustling markets and vibrant churches, a quiet but powerful yearning lives: the desire to build a better life through faith, freedom, and hard work. It’s a desire I have seen in the eyes of young students in Enugu, in the determination of women trading tomatoes on the streets of Aba, and in the quiet prayers of fathers hoping to send their children to school.
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