Political satirist Oluwatayo Jide Shoneye, author of the critically acclaimed JÁPA: The Great British Migration Lottery, and historian Nurdini Shabani Bakari announce the global release of their groundbreaking novel, The Great Game of Scruples: Masterpiece of Post-Colonial Doublespeak.

Moving beyond the themes of migration to explore the root causes of global inequality, this new collaboration is a “Systemic Autopsy” of the global financial order. The novel follows Mamadou Cissé, a “Janitor of the Labyrinth” and senior financial analyst in Dakar, who maintains the “Algorithm”—a centuries-old software that translates human life into interest rates and sovereign resources into “Structural Adjustments”.

Set against a looming global crisis in 2026, the story traces the evolution of extraction from the mahogany tables of the 1884 Berlin Conference to the digital battlegrounds of the near future. When the Algorithm glitches, Mamadou must choose between serving a machine that harvests his people’s future or joining the “Parallel Pulse”—a decentralised, invisible network of “New Architects” ready to build a world where the spreadsheet is no longer king.

We have spent a hundred years running on a treadmill built in Berlin in 1884, says Shoneye. “This book isn’t just a story; it’s the ‘Delete’ key.”

Co-author Nurdini Shabani Bakari states: “By anchoring this narrative in the martyrdom of visionaries like Thomas Sankara and Muammar Gaddafi, we are reminding the world that the ‘New Horizon’ isn’t a dream — it’s a recovery of what was always ours.”

The Great Game of Scruples exposes the true motives of the global elite—terms like “Transparency” and “Good Governance”—showing them as the very tools used to keep a continent on a never-ending “Debt Treadmill”. It is a sharply amusing and intellectually fierce critique of an “Inverted Economy” where “Aid” is a vacuum and “Development” is a trap.

Launch Event Details:

Keynote: “The Architecture of the Inevitable” by Oluwatayo Jide Shoneye.

Panel: “Archiving the Future” led by Nurdini Shabani Bakari.

Locations: University of Ibadan (Nigeria), The British Library (UK), and Gorée Island (Senegal).

About the Authors:

Oluwatayo Jide Shoneye is a renowned satirist whose work examines the human impact of global systems.

Nurdini Shabani Bakari is a historian specialising in African economic systems and the “Labyrinth” of sovereign debt.

Signed:  Oluwatayo Jide Shoneye (Author), The Great Game of Scruples 

              Nurdini Shabani Bakari (Co-Author)