Matthew T. Page
@matthewtpage.bsky.social
Author of 'Understanding #Kleptocracy' (OUP, 2025). Chatham House fellow focused on #corruption worldwide. Longtime #Nigeria watcher. Ex-State Department, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mainer. Views mine. More: https://www.matthewtaylor.page
🇳🇬 Check out my latest piece wit the Plato Group on the perils of Nigeria Fatigue and how to avoid it. I guarantee this piece will resonate with you whether or not you have been working on/in Nigeria for a long time or if you are just starting to focus on it. www.platogroup.co.uk/post/the-per...
The Perils of Nigeria Fatigue
Matthew T. Page, the former U.S. intelligence community's top Nigeria expert, writes about the continued strategic importance of Nigeria and why investors, policymakers, and diplomats need to avoid Ni...
www.platogroup.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
🇳🇬 Check out my latest piece wit the Plato Group on the perils of Nigeria Fatigue and how to avoid it. I guarantee this piece will resonate with you whether or not you have been working on/in Nigeria for a long time or if you are just starting to focus on it. www.platogroup.co.uk/post/the-per...
Selling access. Toll-taking. It is early days, but the incoming administration is already generating headlines very familiar to this corruption/kleptocracy scholar: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
Trump aide sought payments from job seekers, internal legal review found
Boris Epshteyn used his proximity to the president-elect to benefit himself, a Trump legal review found. He denies the allegation.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Selling access. Toll-taking. It is early days, but the incoming administration is already generating headlines very familiar to this corruption/kleptocracy scholar: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
Well, it was a good run. 12 years; 19k tweets, 33k followers. RIP Twitter me. Hello, 🦋 me!
November 24, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Well, it was a good run. 12 years; 19k tweets, 33k followers. RIP Twitter me. Hello, 🦋 me!