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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 17h

Here I suggest that while universities/institutions, etc., in the Global North should assess what they GAIN from enslavement & colonial invasion, it is also important to assess what African & African-descended people have LOST & continue to lose.
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Universities in the Global North & Legacies of Slavery

How can we use a structure to repair damage done by said structure?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18h

The tell is when the "free speech" warrior's argument equates to "the people criticizing me are silencing me and should therefore be made to shut up."

It's a pretty obvious tell; makes you wonder about those who keep falling for it time after time after time. Or maybe not wonder so much.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 18h

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 18h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 22h

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 16h

my biggest beef with bluesky is that I get way more updates on what Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel than anything on the African continent

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 22h

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 17h

Here I suggest that while universities/institutions, etc., in the Global North should assess what they GAIN from enslavement & colonial invasion, it is also important to assess what African & African-descended people have LOST & continue to lose.
folukeafrica.com/universities...

Universities in the Global North & Legacies of Slavery

How can we use a structure to repair damage done by said structure?

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 18h

"Our peace is not their peace. Their peace has been when we accepted, quietly, the corpses of Black people thrown against our screens. Our peace is when they stop killing us." Yannick Giovanni Marshall
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The racists’ peace

To praise the peacefulness of a protest is to assert the right of those resisted to determine the ethics of resistance.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 18h

"love is a sunbeam

peace is like sunlight

and freedom...

freedom like the skylark,

flies upward...

freedom flies upward."
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Turn Around

Freedom is like a skylark

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 18h

The absence of conflict is neither justice nor peace.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 5d

This essay on the movie "Detroit" [2017] asks if it is possible to tell stories of racism that do more than retraumatise the already brutalised. Can this wretched earth, suffused as it is in an atmosphere of violence [Fanon], learn freedom again? What do you think?
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The Movie ‘Detroit’: Telling Tales of a Wretched Night

Fanon and Depicting the Wretched

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 6d

This is a reflection on the power of words and stories. This is a world made from stories, true ones, false ones, hopeful ones. Stories of law, stories told about law, stories the law tells.

"It is the story that owns and directs us." Chinua Achebe (1987)

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We Dream, We Write, We Change the World

For the world cannot afford our silence…

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 5d

Octopus in Yoruba is apparently "Ayéfófo" or more recently "ẹja ẹlẹsẹ mẹjọ." The latter literally means the eight-legged fish. When consumed as meat, it's called "fọ́ntọ́nfọ́ntọ́n", which I personally translate as "eww! yuck! Squishy!"

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 5d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 5d

Manifesto for when I rule the world: All humans must take CPD-like courses all through life called Continuing Human Development.
Courses include:
how to human properly
we all matter
racism is bad
greed is bad
destroying the planet also bad

Other suggestions on what the curriculum should include?

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, if this place explodes, here is my linktree

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folukeifejola | Twitter, Instagram, TikTok | Linktree

African woman, lawyer, teacher, poet. Singer of songs, writer of words

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 5d

For Black History Month, a reminder that forgotten history also includes the inability of even science fiction to imagine the possibility of African futurity, where she emerges not as a low-budget version of Europe, but a true picture of herself. folukeafrica.com/african-futu...

African Futurity as Forgotten History

On the unimagined possibilities of Blackness

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4d

Freedom, liberty and justice are lofty ideals; there are often declarations that they've been achieved or supported. But what matters is what happens the day after the declaration. Are freedom, liberty and justice actually exercised or experienced then?

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The Day After

Or When Freedom Really Happens

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

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IRETI OGO - Beautiful Nubia

YouTube video by EniObanke Gangan

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful Nubia

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 8d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 6d

"My friend" and "sorry o", are two phrases in Nigerian English that often express the exact opposite of the words contained therein.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 2d

A few more examples:
Oya clap for yourself - you had better not
I am coming - *Then leaves*
I am sleeping jare - definitely not asleep
It’s not your fault! - it's very much your fault
Come and beat me - if you even think about it...
Well done o! - you have acted very poorly

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 7d

As part of Epigram’s (University of Bristol's student newspaper) 2018 campaign to raise awareness about microaggressions, I submitted the following poem. Everything I have included is informed by talking with students & colleagues and from personal experience. Sadly.
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Acceptable Traumas or How We Measure (A) Violence

A poetic contribution to Epigram’s Anti-MicroAgressions campaign

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a time, you could legitimately think of a notable newspaper columnist as someone who had fought their way to the top of a competitive field. Nowadays, for every six-figure salaried pro, there are 20 people saying smarter things online for free. But the money still flows.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

Monty Franklin is comedically informative.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

Mr Puerto Rico.

*sigh*

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

Mr Nigeria. There's a lot going on here and I feel like I should hate it, but I really don't. I think mostly because he is selling the look so fucking hard that I cannot help but love it.

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