Nigeria, May 26 -- There is a particular kind of book that does not announce itself as important. It arrives clothed in the language of programme documentation and then, somewhere between the Foreword and the second chapter, you realise you are reading something that will sit with you for a long time. Leading With Our Humanity: Elevating Communities through Gender Equity and Social Inclusion by Amina A Salihu is exactly that kind of book.

Launched under the 'Big Ideas platform' at the Yar'adua Centre in Abuja on Friday, 22nd January, the volume is, on one level, a learning document drawn from the MacArthur Foundation's On Nigeria Program, which ran for nearly a decade before winding down in 2024. On another level, it is a meditation on p...