#nature

Every time you walk across a patch of red Nigerian soil — through a compound in Ibadan, along a dusty road in Kano, or beside a garden in Port Harcourt — you are stepping over one of the most sophisticated civilisations on Earth. Ants. Tiny, often ignored, occasionally cursed at when they invade the kitchen sugar. But beneath the surface of their small bodies and even smaller reputation lies a world of breathtaking complexity, ruthless efficiency, and biological wonder that puts many human institutions to shame