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folukeifejola

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Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet. Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge. Handle on all socials: folukeifejola Website: FolukeAfrica.com https://linktr.ee/folukeifejola

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Sep 8

My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. All welcome!

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Invitation to join a Critical Research Network on Pedagogies of Race and Empire

For some time, several colleagues and I have been thinking of how to consolidate and build on the work that we have been doing individually in translating our anti-colonial and anti-racist research…

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 9h

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 · 5d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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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IRETI OGO - Beautiful Nubia

YouTube video by EniObanke Gangan

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Beautiful Nubia

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 4d

"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 · 1d

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 · 6d

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

Monty Franklin is comedically informative.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 22h

Mr Puerto Rico.

*sigh*

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 22h

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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Manuel Muñiz @manuelmuniz.bsky.social · 21h

That, and this one too.

Image of a post in which Tom Morello responds to some guy ironically calling him "another successful musician [who] instantly becomes a political expert". Morello's answer reads: "One does not have to be an honors grad in political science from Harvard University to recognize the unethical and inhumane nature of this administration but well, I happen to be an honors grad in political science from Harvard University so I can confirm that for you".

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely love this twitter classic:

Exchange between two twitter users. A man called Scott Castaneda write to Tom Morella, "I use to be a fan until your political opinions come out. Music is my sanctuary and the last thing I want to hear is political bs when I'm listening to music. As far as I'm concerned you and pink are completely done. Keep running your mouth and ruining your fan base." User Howard Finklestein replies, "What 'machine' did you think he was raining against? The dishwasher?"

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Sorcha Ní Nia @luiseach.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t fully articulate why but this is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. I’m making noises like a clogged drain

A screenshot (originally posted on Twitter) of Taylor Swift and Cillian Murphy both appearing on the Graham Norton Show recently and Swift is mid-conversation and Murphy is looking at her like she’s a beauty pageant contestant who’s just said she wants to singlehandedly end world hunger and bring about world peace

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 4d

3. Meanwhile Jenrick says he's concerned that "people are living parallel lives". Yet his home county identifies as 96.9% white and his constituency identifies as 98% white. The parallel universes in his own back yards speak volumes. Meanwhile, Handsworth is one of Britain's most diverse areas.

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 4d

2. The current rhetoric of those who mobilise racism for political gain proposes that those who investigate colonial history and modern racism are the problem. Not racism itself.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

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Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group

RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committee

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely sounds similar!