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Writer, journalist, editor. Culture activist. 🎙️ @Art4thepeople_ . Author of 'Indigo'.

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Indigo, Kindle edition.
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An exhibition that takes the breath away. 108 terracotta heads representing 108 girls still missing from Chibok, sculpted by 108 art students of Obafemi Awolowo University, cast in the tradition of ancient Ife heads. Ongoing at Art Twenty-One, Eko Hotel.
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At least they're trying and are excited to try. It's the default to mockery that prevents many from attempting to speak the language, and then we lose them altogether.
@Eminitybaba_
Commissioner for Dodo™️
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Lol... These British -Nigerian girls trying to speak Yoruba is funny 😂😂😂😂
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Young Nigerians are arriving by coach and train from around the UK to join those in London tomorrow for a protest at the Nigerian Embassy. #EndSARS #EndSarsNow #EndPoliceBrutality
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There's always been a "large influx" of Nigerians in the UK. Before your time. After your time. Territorialism unnecessary.
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Current Nigerian music that often has neither head nor tail, no lyricism, no appeal to timelessness or philosophical depth, often can't minister to a soul in distress. I was in an Uber and the driver was playing "Alẹ yi á le." I honestly felt threatened, like, why this why now?
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What a couple of days it's been for joyous medical news. The first treatment for Sickle Cell in 20 years and a vaccine for Malaria that's 100 years in the works! 🙌🏾🙌🏾
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Suddenly GSM is no longer an accomplishment of the Obasanjo Admin. It wasn't the laws and regulations and licenses granted and instituted by central govt that brought about Econet & MTN. It was one man in Lagos. Our lack of fidelity to historical fact will be our undoing.
@alabiopeyemiola
Alabi Opeyemi Oladimeji
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Tinubu brought Econet which was the first telecommunications service provider to launch commercial GSM services in Nigeria. August 5, 2001 It was not Obasanjo and Atiku Adminstration
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Manu Dibango, King Sunny Ade have headlined festivals the world over. Africans played Glastonbury. King Sunny Ade played Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Barbican (I was at both), Wizkid has not. KSA played over 40 US cities in 1 tour alone in the 80s. The ignorant kill their own gods.
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Saw this on my way to work this morning, it was Impossible in uk 🇬🇧 few years ago for Naija act to headline a festival proud of Wizkid 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
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Saddest for me is that a Nigerian would likely not have gotten this publishing deal. Europeans get huge publishing deals to tell the nonfictional African story, constantly, as though there are no writers or journalists of African descent who can tell it.
@CRASSHlive
CRASSH, Cambridge
2 years
✍️ New blog⁠ 'Soro Soke: The Young Disruptors of an African Megacity | 5 questions to Trish Lorenz'⁠ 📙 @NineDotsPrize winner Trish Lorenz talks about her book on the Soro Soke generation in African megacities and what inspired her to write it.⁠
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I've seen this play out so many times in this society: premature jubilation and then the gnashing of teeth. Since the military days. Rinse and repeat. Nigeria lumbers on from disaster to disaster.
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This is not some "old lady" but Professor Karin Barber, associate of Duro Ladipo, Oba Olokuku etc. and author of Yoruba books including 'Yoruba Dun Un Sọ'.
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Yorùbáness
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Old Lady chat in #Yoruba with #Ooni of ife. You can feel the happiness in her voice ✨
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The body language, the pent-up anger bristling just under the surface, the lacerating eyes, the tone that brooks no opposition.
@Abbanaira_KSM
Abbanaira (KSM) Ⓚ 🇳🇬
2 years
Yesterday at State House Senator @KashimSM Shettima, APC Vice Presidential Candidate.
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A true filmmaker should help discover new stars. Afolayan is doing what Kelani has done many times: give new talent a chance to shine. There's a Hollywood tradition of well-established stars playing cameo roles. Ogogo et al can't play the lead here for many reasons including age.
@RealMOlaleye
Micheal Olaleye
2 years
Kunle Afolayan's choice in casting is becoming very questionable, the seasoned actors were barely giving any screentime and the average ones are giving all the screentime. 😂
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That this so-called "trenches immersion" on public transport by the supposedly "privileged" is a thing - is an index of Nigeria's poverty & underdeveloped condition. In developed countries public transport is for everyone, high and low, dignifies everyone; everyone cycles, walks.
@docneto
Neto
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I'm acutely aware of my privilege so i often do trenches immersion. I use danfo and gist with people, I use Keke, talk to okada riders and more to regularly reset my brain. If you're privileged and want to be in touch with the reality of naija i suggest you do same.
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This man is a grotesque caricature. His words are condemnable and a disgrace to the pulpit. They are offensive to Nigerians of mixed heritage, as well as many other categories of people. This mockery of people's accidents of birth, status, careers etc. This is not God's love.
@bizzleosikoya
Bizzleosikoya.eth
4 years
Come get your Pastor 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️
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If ever a traditional ruler in Nigeria is to be given the title, "His Serene Highness," it would be the Obi of Onitsha. A humbling regal presence, unimpeachably civilised.
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Many Nigerians want Nigeria reformed without reforming themselves.
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Never trust anyone who claims that they made this person, they made that person. One day, they will claim that they made you.
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Mr Macaroni has given me so much laughter to lighten my days in the last one year. I am so sorry to see the bestial treatment of him and many others today, all because of peaceful protest. 😥 #EndSARS #LekkiTollgate
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In a suit filed by 10 governors, the Supreme Court is being asked to set aside President Buhari's ban on 500 and 1000 naira notes. The governors' counsel is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria who goes by the name, A.J. Owónikókó. Very aptly named. For money is the crux of the matter.
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No matter what they do, no matter the security clampdown, #LekkiTollgate is now a site of protest. Once given to relentless ticketing for billions of naira, now made unpeaceable by struggle. A monument to memory. Watch as meaning is being made. The Tollgate belongs to the people.
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Aiye le. The dead is not yet buried, and Agbalagba Akàn is already instigating mọ̀lẹ́bí against a young widow with a five-month-old baby. When we write things like this in our fiction, they say we're anti-men or have a wild imagination or we exaggerate. But this is reality.
@IntelRegion
Intel Region
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Less than 24 hrs after his d£ath, Mohbad’s relatives reportedly plot on how to collect his properties from his wife at his b¥rial ground before he was bur!ed
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What fascinates me most about Asake is that his stage name is a Yoruba oriki name for girls.
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Otedola using his financial clout for a good cause. It's shocking that, with the endless TV and film production this actor has featured in over a long career, he's in this position money-wise. We need to look at the income potential of creatives in Nigeria. So many in penury.
@bellanaija
BellaNaija
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Femi Otedola is settling all of Victor Olaotan Medical Bills
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Yoruba is not "vernacular". Love and blessings to the wise and talented @lekan_kingkong .
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"You're a black person you go to another country, you demand fairness, but in your own country, you can't treat other people fairly." - Eni Adeoluwa
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Onyeka Onwenu, perennial public figure, rest in peace. 🤍🕊️
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You don't see that every day. King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall (KWAM1), Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and Alhaji Ayinla Kollington at the first Sikiru Ayinde Barrister Colloquium, held today at Radisson Blu Ikeja.
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There are several books on it and in progress; they just won't get the seal/visibility that Cambridge confers, because we're unequally yoked in publishing terms. We didn't get "a bookout of it." The author did us no favours; her book is neither the first nor the last word on this
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Say I wanted to write about the self-defeating myopia of Brexit Britain, who'd give me a publishing deal for that? Am I mad? But a white journalist can spend three scattered years in Africa, floating in an expatriate bubble, and get a deal to write an authoritative book on Africa
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Fam, I present to you one of the best NEXT Arts & Culture covers we ever did, published Sunday, 14 March 2010. Twitter will not allow a newspaper double spread, and so I've cut the inner spread into two. As they say here, 'Treasures of Ife' still slaps.
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A terrorist sympathiser is actually in charge of our National Identity Number (NIN) system. He's got the most sensitive deets on every single one of us. This should trouble Nigerians, very deeply.
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It is you that is wicked, Uncle Ibikunle. It is only your own children that should have the free run of the world.
@MobilePunch
Punch Newspapers
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Western nations encouraging japa, granting young Nigerians visas wicked –Ex-gov Amosun
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"Your Royal Highnesses, I wish to assure you that I'm not about to bark at you - 'Stand up! Sit down!' This is a cultured gathering." -- Wole Soyinka's joke at Obasanjo's expense, earlier today.
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He was executed by Ojukwu. Let the record state that too.
@maazi_ogbonnaya
Maazị Ogbonnaya Okoro
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Some Yoruba Army Officials who Fought in the side of Biafra to defend ndị Igbo. 1. Lt. Col. Victor Banjo One of the first graduates to join the army alongside Ojukwu and others. Banjo led the 3,000 strong Biafran brigade known as the "Liberation Army of Nigeria"
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Chris Oyakhilome has been all kinds of messy this Covid-19 season. Irresponsible to the point of deranged. A train wreck. An absolute disgrace. For those still programmed or deluded enough to worship his talcumed face, his affected accent, we present to you - the demystification.
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I just look around and think, what values are we espousing when certain types of music are carpeted everywhere and everyone and their grandmothers dance and sing along without once stopping to think? A culture imploding and deluding itself that it's producing "evolved sounds."
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but long live African Literature. To the African writer and our creative communities, onwards ever.
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You see everywhere, everyone is dancing unthinkingly to songs glorifying drugs, gambling and other destructive habits - Gbemi trabaye - about Tramadol abuse, being played at weddings & kids parties, everyone turning RoboCop in the dancing. Then we talk about drug abuse epidemic.
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“Your son is good. Science class is the best for him." “Our teachers were not in support of their best students going to Art class."
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There is not enough variety to cater to the sheer range, kaleidoscope & palette of human experience and feeling. No sense of what music is in/appropriate for certain settings. Grandmothers, brides at weddings and kids dancing to the lewdest lyrics. "Parental Advisory" in the mud.
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@colbertlateshow "For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." - Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from the Birmingham Jail.
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No respect whatsoever for crass display of wealth, for anyone whose lifestyle is not backed by a visible means of support. The worship of wealth in Nigeria is nauseating, a fatal flaw. Our society is imploding in real time because money is the be-all and end-all of everything.
@Nobsdaslushhkid
Noble Igwe
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I need to stop now, I’m already seeing my tweets on blogs. Remember, family is important in shaping the society and we owe it to one another to fix our homes. Stop celebrating overnight untraceable success.
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You did not inherit the silence of your mothers because your mothers were not silent.
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Ikú Babá Yeyé, Alaṣẹ Ekeji Oriṣa, Alaafin Ọyọ, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III on his coronation 52 years ago. One of the most 'ó n dá mi lọ́run' photographs I have ever seen. Continue to hold court with the ancestors. May only the truly worthy be coronated in your place.
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It's so easily taken for granted, how much Ibadan means to us.
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5 years
Exciting times.
@OuidaBooks
Ouida Books
5 years
We are thrilled to announce that celebrated journalist, writer and editor, Molara Wood ( @molarawood ) has joined the @OuidaBooks and @OneReadAfrica family as Chief Editor.
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Professional police forces in saner places would not go out to name the person arrested, as you have so gleefully done here. Please study @metpoliceuk tweets for pointers. Someone was arrested at 3am; what was the rush to come and tell us immediately like he's a wanted outlaw?
@BenHundeyin
SP Benjamin Hundeyin
2 years
At 3am today, @Iceprincezamani was stopped for driving without license plates. He agreed to be taken to the station. He, thereafter, abducted the police officer in his car, assaulted him and threatened to throw him in the river. He has been arrested and would be arraigned today.
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That Bobrisky could live and thrive openly and flamboyantly in Nigeria, has been one of the things to admire about this country in the last few years. Ordinary Nigerians embraced her or let her be. Now the authorities are going after a harmless trans person. It's sickening.
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Overdramatic, ham-it-up performances are what is celebrated as great acting, often, in Nigeria. Films without vision, deeper message or underlying meditative thought, are 'masterpieces.' Overhyped directors at start of journeys, still finding their voices, hailed as 'masters'
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I am so gutted that Dora Akunyili did not live to see this.
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4 years
I remain disappointed in my Yoruba people, the elites especially, partying away in a pandemic like they don't want a tomorrow. Ṣé wọ́n fi ṣe yín ni?
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The Yoruba have a word for it: Ìrègún. Not sure there's an equivalent in English. To the Yoruba, Ìrègún is a failure of character, a detestable and pitiable trait of the individual.
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Others fought for you. They were brutally squashed, their stories suppressed, their heroism denied, even by those they fought for. Never think your struggle is new. It isn't.
@AishaYesufu
Aisha Yesufu
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I fight for the unborn generation the way I wish others had fought for me before I was born #EndSars #EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeria #SARSMUSTEND #EndSWAT #GenocideAtLekkiTollGate #CrimesAgainstHumanity
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I don't get the elitist posturing of Nigerians who say they don't speak pidgin. Pidgin is a leveler, breaks down barriers between people of different backgrounds/status. If you care about democratising your interaction with other Nigerians, why would you turn your back on Pidgin?
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This picture I took of the late Adebayo Faleti, the late Akinwunmi Isola and the very much alive Femi Osofisan at the Osun Grove on festival day in 2010.
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Fifty ain't what it used to be.
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Even if you want to give Ganduje a politico-money title, call him Bọ́badúró or something. Why Fiwajoye? Why bastardise the Yoruba concept of Ìwà, and our language, in the process? Words have meaning.
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The woman is Yoruba, sings in Yoruba. She's been singing since ever and has stayed on top of the game. I don't know how anyone in their right mind could think of her Grammy win as a "loss" for Nigeria. But here we are.
@DeleMomodu
Dele Momodu Ovation
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My first interview with @angeliquekidjo was in April 1996 in London, in which she said she'll like to die on stage to show how much she loves her career. Angelique has not stopped singing since she released her first album in 1981. She traced her roots to Nigeria, and proudly so!
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I cannot imagine what Pa Fasoranti, a man of nearly a hundred, is going through with the killing of his daughter. To then be forced to grieve that loss so publicly by opportunistic politicians in search of photo-ops, is just unimaginable, not to mention anathema to Yoruba culture
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And I will repeat it here. Baba Sala (Moses Olaiya) was not a 'Veteran' but a legend, a pioneer and a trailblazer. And what we need from the media are images of him in his prime, so that younger people who did not meet him on the stage will get a sense of his greatness. RIP.
@MobilePunch
Punch Newspapers
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BREAKING: Veteran comedian, Baba Sala is dead
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A system that wants to kill you will not mind too much if it's a pandemic that gets the job done.
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"Mama Africa" that does not live in Africa, that has never travelled to any significant extent around Africa, that is often strangely silent on Black/African issues, that does not appear to live the Yoruba spirituality she mines for megaprofit. Ọsun forbids it. Ọlọrun ma jẹ.
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@GovWike You are a disgrace to decency and and modernity. It shall not be well with you. Your time shall pass. Your name will live in infamy. For this act against the will of the people, against the march of history, your name is mud. Caveman. Servant kinglet.
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All they needed to do was walk back a genocidal tweet, say they didn't mean it like that, explain, stutter, apologise maybe. But no. They ban Twitter. Who does that? At the end of it all, are we to understand the genocidal tweet was good and proper? Who are these people?
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Coventry, UK. #EndSARS
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Winnie Mandela was a woman of outstanding courage. She kept Mandela's name alive for 27 eternal years and helped create the myth of the unseen Mandela. When Mandela gained freedom, Winnie had to be torn down in order to create a new Mandela myth. A woman's lot. Rest in Power.
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'Yoruba Beyond Borders,' short film by Tunde Kelani and Bola Belo and for which I was narrator, is now available on YouTube. *Versions with English & French subtitles.
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Wonderful to feature in 'Yoruba Beyond Borders', a short film by @tkelani and Bola Belo, which premiered at #IREP2019 yesterday.
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@vanessa_vash They are wrong, because they're saying that we should actively court proximity to whiteness as a strategy for survival/visibility. They're saying we can't just be, can't just be taken seriously as we are, and that we have no right to be respected in our own right, our own terms.
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The moment you give in to that base instinct and say: I did this for you, I did that for you - all decency, kindliness, humanity, charity etc. evaporates. Your supposed good deed is nullified. Cloaked in ignominy. You did not help that person; you merely set a trap for the future
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Nigeria's the only country I know where you'll be seeing off friends and loved ones and you're not allowed to come into the airport. You're meeting children who may run into confusing/unsafe situations in the terminal, but you're forced to wait outside. It's inhumane, uncivilised
@CNNAfrica
CNN Africa
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Nigerians are sharing this video of Nollywood actor, Aremu Afolayan, venting about his experience with officials at the Murtala Mohammed airport. Have you had a similar experience? Let us know!
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This film. My God. At its heart is the great African migration tragedy. And an unbelievable child performance. Watch on Netflix with your preferred audio/subtitles, but watch it. Adú (2020)
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Callous and irresponsible demonisation of traditional religion. A dysfunctional society burdened with poor governance and dangerously inadequate infrastructure, and you blame the consequences on some shrine nearby. Are there churches and mosques nearby and do you blame them too?
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Ayemojubar
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Ojú-Ìbọ Elégba has taken another offering. It's more like a yearly sacrifice now. For me this is spiritual. Long before the present Lagos in 1851, the area known today as Ojuelegba was a forest and a consecrated site for the worship of Eshu Eléghua, also referred to as Légba.
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10 days later, he was hanged along with eight other Ogoni activists. #RestInPower
@nigeriainvideos
Nigeria In Videos
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Today in History. October 31, 1995. Port Harcourt. Judge Ibrahim Auta reads the death sentence verdict for 9 of the 15 accused Ogoni activists, including Kenule Saro-Wiwa. Credit: NTA, AP, RTV.
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I see clips of people propitiating orisa to avenge Mohbad's death & folks asking, "Do these things work?" Never mind. The greatest avenger of all, what Yoruba call Orí, is already fighting. How I know? The uproar has gone beyond anything Mohbad's assailants could have expected.
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Molara Wood 🍉
5 years
Not just BA. Many international flights affected. Lagos-bound passengers are stranded in places like Accra and Dakar where their flights have diverted and stalled, and it's to do with a safety issue at MMIA. "Fog", "no landing lights". A scandal. And the TL is almost silent on it
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Lawrence
5 years
Imagine trying to fly to Lagos and @British_Airways decides to offload you in Ghana instead... that's literally three countries away!!! I'm still stunned, read the correspondence @afalli just posted.
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Molara Wood 🍉
3 years
@mr_oladele_ That song is so toxic, so harmful. It's not about consensual sex. It knows nothing of female pleasure. The girl is just a tool, anonimised. "I've already taken a libido enhancer, any girl procured for me tonight will be wounded, by me." And you know what? It's played everywhere.
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Molara Wood 🍉
7 years
Juju maestro Julius Araba and his professional musician wife. Take a listen to Mrs Araba at the end. #OroPesiJe
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Molara Wood 🍉
2 years
@AMASIKE @cchukudebelu The UK is not Dubai, the history of Nigerians in the UK is not comparable to the UAE, nor are the attendant issues the same. There is just something so problematic about a Nigerian talking about the "influx" of Nigerians to another country, as though wanting to keep folks out.
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Molara Wood 🍉
2 years
I am an African. And I am Yoruba. If I know nothing, I know that much.
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Molara Wood 🍉
2 years
"For several decades, he blazed his own path in a career marked by artistic virtuosity and reinvention." My tribute to our beautiful soul brother, Biyi Bandele, gone to the storyworld beyond. @bbcnews @bbcafrica .
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Molara Wood 🍉
4 years
If an African country did this, it would be labelled a place of savagery, inhabited by savages.
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AJ+
4 years
France returned the skulls of 24 Algerians decapitated while fighting French colonialists over 170 years ago. Officials say the anti-colonial fighters were "deprived of their natural & human right" to be buried & will bury them on Algeria's independence day. 📸: AFP/Algerian TV
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Molara Wood 🍉
6 years
@bevtgooden And as 'To Kill a Mockingbird' reminds us, many black men have also been killed by white men over false allegations of rape from which no way no how the black man could extricate himself. If Liam Neeson had killed, would it matter to victim's life/family that it's 40 years later?
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Molara Wood 🍉
5 years
The African city I'm in today has miles of the Atlantic at its edge, free to everyone. The sea is not disappeared to serve some exclusive enclave of the super rich. Took long leisurely walk because, pavements. There are cycle lanes, trams. A liveable, future city. Lagos it ain't.
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Molara Wood 🍉
6 years
I miss when we used to fashion our geles according to individual style and prowess with the fabric. Geles are so standard now. So lacking in individual style or expression. So boring.
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Molara Wood 🍉
2 months
Nigeria fielded its largest ever squad at #Paris2024 and came back with zero 🏅. Paid foreign-based arhletes $6,000 training grants in the middle of the games and paid homebased ones $1,500, tanking team morale. Madness with no method. An omnishambles.
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Molara Wood 🍉
5 years
I rarely use profanity. But what is truly profane to me is people tiptoeing around in defence of their church leaders, when we are faced with the greatest threat of our lifetime in this virus. To all toothless defenders of irresponsible leaders, political or religious: Up Yours.
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Molara Wood 🍉
2 years
This exhibition is titled 'Statues Also Breathe'. It is a collaboration between artist Prune Nourry and the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ifẹ. More info:
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Molara Wood 🍉
3 years
For sure, there are so many, in Nigeria, who would not be caught dead speaking Yoruba. That's what's laughable and embarrassing, to me.
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Molara Wood 🍉
4 years
Moved by Adesuwa Etomi-Wellington's testimony that she could not have an opinion in Nigerian society without someone telling her to 'go and born', calling her 'barren'. Daily. This is what happens to Idera in my short story, 'Indigo', written in 2010. It's fiction until it's not.
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Molara Wood 🍉
4 years
Proud of this country. I no longer believed Nigerians could get up, for real, anymore, for anything. Cynical, apathetic and self-defeating. And yet here we are, a genuine uprising. #EndSARS #EndSarsNow
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Molara Wood 🍉
5 years
A lot of Nigerian celebrities act irresponsibly and yet continue to rake in lucrative brand endorsements. This is not acceptable, it's now how societies get better. Actions must begin to have consequences for our celebrities. Wife-beaters or Covid-19 betrayers should not profit.
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Molara Wood 🍉
4 years
Instructive to realise Nas has only just won his first Grammy ever, and yet he's made two of the most influential Rap albums ever and has reigned as a HipHop god into a second generation. While some pick up Grammies like candies. Great art will live greatly, awards or no awards.
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Molara Wood 🍉
6 years
Lagos Government gave 50 million naira each to Lagos social clubs like Lagos Motor Boat Club etc. Elitist clubs with wealthy membership, who don't need the money. What about recreational centres and sports facilities for deprived youths with nothing to do strung out on Codeine?
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Molara Wood 🍉
3 years
However shocking the crime, we keep saying it: suspects should not be paraded before the media in this manner, let alone read from prepared statements; reporters are not investigators. The case & arguments for and against should first be presented to a court, not social media.
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GistReel.Com
3 years
Suspected killer of Super TV CEO, Chidinma, 21-year-old, 300 mass communications student of University of Lagos, recounts how she stabbed him with a knife, which led to his death.
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Molara Wood 🍉
6 years
@EmanKellam "Ọmọ ọdún mẹ́rìndínlógún!" He hollered for the Mum and then reminded himself she's gone out. "Apostle will hear of this." Everybody will hear of it, more like. 😂😂😂
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Molara Wood 🍉
2 years
One man breathing the fumes of his own grand delusion utters some self-serving fallacy, and so many run with it; they bend facts and historical records and attempt to distort collective memory, to say: here is an alternative fact, and it is so because we say so.
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Molara Wood 🍉
5 years
Says the oloriburuku tó fi millions gé koríko.
@PremiumTimesng
Premium Times
5 years
INTERVIEW: Nigerian governors are ‘parasites,’ wasting nation’s resources – Babachir Lawal
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Molara Wood 🍉
6 months
We need sensitivity readers for African fiction. I don't think should you invent/project harmful practices not known in my culture & ascribe such to us just because you want to write hackneyed trauma for white folks to gush over & describe as "haunting". Even if you're one of us.
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