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Aight y’all time to go stream Thriller.
Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' is no longer the highest selling album of all time.
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Enjoyed chatting with
@sarkodie
about Black Pride, Black Love, the Year of Return + a lot more. He's the truth.
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@sarkodie
"As much as we're happy that others are tapping into [afrobeats], we need to remember that this is our music. We need to make sure we have control over it & let others come in as guests—because we've always been guests. It's our sound, we need to be the ones hosting." —
@Sarkodie
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I’ve worked at OkayAfrica for three years and have witnessed and can corroborate everything that my former colleagues and current friends have stated.
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This kimono suit he rocked at the South Korea premiere of Black Panther is still the best red carpet look I’ve ever seen on a man.
One thing about Chadwick, he stayed in Givenchy + Versace — Loved how Ashley West worked alongside him to have custom suiting made for the Black Panther press tour.
Seeing really traditional heritage houses incorporated nods to African textiles + prints just for him was so cool
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@popcollectiion
I love that in her memoir she says he was a genuine friend, it never got weird between them and he even tried to help get her signed to Def Jam
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I would take Brandy’s poems over Steve Harvey’s stories
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I interviewed theee Angélique Kidjo 😩. She’s funny, blunt & pouring with wisdom:
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I can confirm that
@the_odditty
is truly just as delightful as she seems! Loved interviewing her for this piece ✨
.
@The_Odditty
is creating the quirky and lovable content we need during
#quarantine
. 🙏🏾
We speak to the Nigerian influencer about her endearing viral content, growing her platform and embracing all the different sides of herself.
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I know 2020 is trash cause I only saw this on my timeline once today
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@MUNDUofficial
@noire_femme
@SimyDee
wowww leave it to T-Pain to bless us with a remix that’s actually 🔥.
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my new coping method is letting my phone die
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Afrobeats went global this decade & I wanted to collect some of the memories attached to its rise as a way of celebrating + documenting the culture. Put together this retrospective with some personal reflections + words from artists & industry insiders:
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Interviewed the photographer behind several iconic photos of Fela and the stunning Kalakuta Queens & I think it reveals some fascinating tidbits about who the artist was a person:
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The only adequate response is for Abiola to step down as CEO & publisher of OKA immediately & issue a public apology to those he has mistreated. Nothing short of this will suffice & my byline won’t appear on a single piece of editorial content on OkayAfrica until this happens.
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Umm I don’t really have anything to plug...except I do. I’m a staff writer at
@okayafrica
check out my work, and remember to support black writers! Blessings.✨
#MJForever
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But wow Beyoncé and her lil rapper friend really just dropped a whole ass album. 😩
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Never forget that Teddy Riley discovered Pharrell
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My favorite thing about 2020 is Amerikkkah losing the respect it never deserved in the first place
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Men shouldn’t be allowed to abuse their power privately and then force women to live out their trauma publicly in an effort to get justice. Stop putting women through this.
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I'm really so blown that they got a queer Black woman of all people caught up in this imperialist mess
BREAKING: Brittney Griner was found guilty of drug possession and drug smuggling in Russia. Prosecutors are seeking 9.5 years.
She was detained in February for possessing vape cartridges with cannabis oil. She has a U.S. prescription for medical marijuana for chronic pain.
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Rih has decided to claim as*p as if we aren’t all going through enough
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I stand firmly by
@AntoinetteIsama
,
@kokothenut
,
@ivieani
,
@ABisi123
,
@seenahgee
,
@ThatgirlXanan
and any other Black woman who have been abused by Abiola’s “leadership” practices.
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Black women are often forced into these impossible positions because of the nature of capitalism and the people who willfully uphold these oppressive systems. More has to be done, especially by Black companies, to challenge this.
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one of the best stories I’ve written imho
Hair beads and African-inspired hair jewelry have made a major comeback in recent years.
Here's a history of the beauty practice told through the unforgettable story of Baroness
@FloellaBenjamin
:
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Not Billie dedicating her award to Megan in a blaccent 😂🤣🤣
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HIRE BLACK WOMEN TO TEACH JOURNALISM AT MAJOR INSTITUTIONS. THERE’S REALLY ONLY SO MUCH ANY OF US CAN LEARN FROM MIDDLE-AGED WHITE MEN.
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I think so-called leaders should stop telling people at the bottom to “advocate for themselves” when what they’re asking for should already be provided to them
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Brandy recording 'almost doesn't count'
24 years ago today Brandy released her iconic sophomore album ‘Never Say Never’ with hits such as ‘Have You Ever,’ ‘Almost Doesn’t Count,’ and ‘The Boy is Mine.’ 💕
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I’ve stayed on because I believe very deeply in the work, the uniqueness of the space, and the right to protect my livelihood. Niggas gotta eat.
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Oh yeah, I am no longer with OkayAfrica. Ya girl is now a free agent—hire me for all your culture writing needs. 🥂
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I can attest to having been on the receiving end of it as recently as two weeks ago when he, along with two other members of executive leadership berated me on a call for voicing concerns about the treatment of Black employees to the company’s white investors.
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The Black women who’ve been at the center of OKA’s evolution have never been properly compensated or recognized for it by Abiola. He has created a work culture that consistently devalues women.
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@BitterCheri
I find it so strange that some people really cannot fathom others not centering their lives around romantic relationships
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Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” is actually a perfect song to encapsulate how Nipsey lived his life. RIP.
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@onlykeepit100
@ImaniDH_
Hm why are you looking for a problem where a problem doesn’t exist? She’s saying she passed at knowing how to be Nigerian lol
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I say this to say that what my friends and former colleagues expressed aren’t just issues of the past. They happen within the company to this day. The fact that Abiola has still not spoken out publicly is disappointing, and I can no longer be complicit in his actions.
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Interviewed one of my favs
@LadyDonli
right before rona hit and it was a cool, multilayered convo—which is exactly how I’d describe her as a person. Check it out:
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writers should be paid more, this shit is hard
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put this list together a few years back & think it's worth revisiting during this time
📚 Here are 13 of our favorite books on the Black resistance and revolution:
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Leaked documents reveal how Africa's richest woman made her fortune through exploitation and corruption
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For a long time I’ve managed to remove myself from daily interactions with Abiola, but the effects of his unfit leadership have taken a toll on my morale and mental well-being.
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Soooo my mom had “cultural heritage” day at work today and she decided to troll her coworkers by repping Wakanda. Lmao, why is she like this? 😭
#WakandaForever
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.
@CSISAfrica
does important policy work concerning Africa, and I’m glad to be joining the program as a senior associate! 🌍
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@damoladurosomo
is a culture writer and journalist focusing on arts and culture in Africa & the diaspora. She previously was a senior writer with
@OkayAfrica
. Welcome, Damola! Learn more:
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Hashtags (as they’re now known) were introduced this decade & they’ve had social impact (both good & bad) beyond what some of us might’ve imagined. This piece outlines how this played out from an African context through various social media movements:
From
#FeesMustFall
to
#BlueforSudan
: OkayAfrica's Guide to a Decade of African Hashtag Activism
The 2010s saw protest movements across the continent embrace social media in their quest to make change.
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The fact that Election Day isn’t a public holiday is also a form of voter suppression.
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How long have they been “working to fix the issue” now??
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Abiola has resigned and that’s due solely to the brave women who spoke out. While it’s a start, the truth is, we shouldn’t have even had to do this work in the first place.
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I am the sliminess of okra and the saltiness of a maggi cube
#stillirise
The country is falling apart, the economy is collapsing, poverty is rampant and corruption is on the rise yet nothing makes me hate being Nigerian more than Yvonne Orji’s Independence Day IG post
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Watching
@pollyirungu
flourish has been one of my favorite pastimes this year 🙌🏾💕
“For me to take up space in a white, male-dominant industry and I’m showing black joy, black women joy - it’s everything.”
@pollyirungu
is a Kenyan-born photographer who got to see her dreams come true when her work was featured in New York’s Times Square.
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People having to do extraordinary things to be considered worthy of asylum is not the success story with think it is
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Wrote this last year & I think it’s pretty safe to say he won 2019 too.
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Stop hiring the same three white men to write about afrobeats challenge
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Wrote a story about the history of African hair beads + jewelry, and spoke to
@FloellaBenjamin
, who introduced beaded styles to UK audiences in 1977, as well as the one & only
@AfricanCreature
. Check it out:
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Fees like an auspicious time to reshare my profile on Bose Ogulu aka
#MamaBurna
. Further proof of how epic she is:
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A recap of my trip to Rwanda:
Rwanda 🇷🇼 is on a mission to sell a new story about itself, and for a week, it enlisted a group of "foreign influencers" to help tell it.
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Crazy how white supremacist feel everything is a threat to whiteness when they’re literally the most dangerous threat to everyone else. They can’t even recognize the humanity in Muslim people because what? They pray differently? What type of senseless shit is that?
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@GlamazonJayyy
It’s so weird being black with a US passport & being at the receiving end of both anti-blackness and American exceptionalism at the same time. Both deeply rooted in white supremacy though, so either way it doesn’t feel good.
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The ease in which they stormed the capitol of the United States! Black people can barely get into Starbucks
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The fact that no man has offered to take me to Fiji and pay all my bills...useless.
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Idk who needs to hear this but the world is ending, buy the purse!!
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A lot of these critiques are more reactive than truly reflective
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