Wunpini F. Mohammed, Ph.D
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Happy to share that our chapter, "LGBT Activism, Social Media, and Queer Politics of Visibility in Ghana," has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Media and Social Justice.
Please DM me or
@Boat_Kubi
if you'd like a copy.
More here:
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Doesn't get more American than this.
After white students displayed Confederate flag at school, Black students suspended for planning protest
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This could apply to literally any country right now 😂
Is there REALLY no other presidential candidates available? Did they check the back???
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My mother refuses to call me Dr. Mohammed. She calls me Dr. Wunpini because it is NOT my father who got the PhD. 😂😂😂
I aspire to be like this woman everyday. 💜💜💜
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My students after I explain the British Commonwealth to them.
Them: So it's a support group for the formerly abused run by the abuser.
Me: Exactly!
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This is what Bill Gates is trying to do with millet.
He will gentrify it and destroy farmer's livelihoods. Communities like mine for whom millet is a staple will no longer be able to afford it because Karen in Brooklyn needs it for her keto diet.
Capitalism destroys everything
"The companies will try to entice us by saying their seeds are ‘better.’ Then we’ll become dependent on seeds that you can’t replant. Our seeds are from this soil. It’s colonialism to say what seeds we can use and how to use them.” - Faustina Banakwoyem
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White people who "study" Africa write for their fellow whites.
Africans are never their primary audience. And if we do hear about their books then it's by accident.
That is why they always get away with this. And that is why they get shocked when we push back.
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African feminists called Lupita out on her questionable collaboration with that blood diamond company and she just unlooked and carried on like nothing happened 🤣🤣🤣
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I am sad to announce the passing of our friend, sister and comrade Shakia Ama Bonsu Asamoah known here as
@YaaAsantewaaBa
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She passed away on Tuesday after a very short illness. She was kind, funny, witty, fierce and empathic.
We've lost a feminist giant, organizer and scholar.
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7 Million People in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Are Now Displaced
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Nigerian lives are Black lives. And it is not asking too much for the Black diaspora to stand in solidarity with us.
We have so much to learn from building coalitions with our siblings across the Africa and the diaspora. Now is not the time to start unnecessary diaspora wars.
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Schitt's Creek season 6 is finally on Netflix 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
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Dear diaspora kids,
The "motherland" is not your backup plan for when things go south in the imperial core.
Stop romanticizing the lived reality of Africans. Nowhere cool, abeg.
Stop treating Africa as a backdrop in your liberal freedom fantasies.
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One of the most painful things is to watch your friends who used to be smart, critical thinkers get sucked into religious cults, lose all their sense of reasoning and defend the indefensible.
Pentecostal, evangelical, charismatic Christianity's slogan is the prosperity gospel.
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Tamale people came out today to stand in solidarity with our Palestinian comrades. Palestine will be free. ✊🏿🇵🇸
So proud of my hometown. 💚 Ghana in solidarity with Palestine. 🇬🇭
Credit: Socialist Movement of Ghana
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Yes! Let's leave this language in 2023.
Africans did not "gain" independence, we fought for our liberation.
They're not our "colonial masters," they are colonizers
Happy Revolutionary New Year! 🎉🎊
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We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in 40C heat
Architects use local materials and merge traditional techniques with modern technology to make schools and orphanages cool, welcoming places
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I defended and passed my dissertation today.
I am now Dr. Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed. 👑
I'm so grateful to my advisor Dr. Anthony Olorunnisola & my committee for their guidance.
Thankful to
@PSUBellisario
for supporting my work every step of the way.
I AM A DOCTOR! 🎊🏆🎉
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Dasiba! I will be joining the Dept of Comm at
@Cornell
this fall as an assistant professor.
I am excited about this career transition and what it means for my scholarship.
It has been an honour teaching and learning from the wonderfully brilliant students at the Uni of Georgia.
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Good morning!
I highly recommend Prof. Tamale's book for anyone interested in Decolonization discourses in Africa. 💜
She nuances discussions of agency while highlighting the silenced narratives on epistemology/activism which leave out the perspectives of marginalized Africans.
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Who are your favorite African scholars who are African? It doesn't matter the discipline. Let's get to know them.
I'd like us to learn more about Africans producing knowledge on Africa, esp Africa-based scholars.
No parachute scholars/non-Africans. Pls RT!
Respond in replies👇🏿
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She moved to the US with big dreams and met a boyfriend on Craigslist. Then she vanished
Irene Gakwa's last WhatsApp video call with her parents was filled with gentle ribbing. But beneath the banter were hints that something was off.
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LOL white people will invent unicorns before they talk about racism and issues affecting BIPOC.
Kristen Bell has written her first children's book 'The World Needs More Purple People' about a purple person, who looks for similarities before differences.
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Whenever an African leader becomes a darling of the West, just know that he has sold his people.
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What high school did you go to?
1. Is a violent question
2. A way to measure your class status
3. A measure of your level of coolness
4. A way to shame you for not going to a widely known school
5. Used by elite Ghanaians to assert their dominance.
6. A public shaming strategy
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Between that Karen writing the Bad and Boujee book and that other Becky writing a book on Ubuntu, I'm just done with colonizers stealing and appropriating the work of Black people who are often denied access to these spaces that these "scholars" just waltz through.
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"The companies will try to entice us by saying their seeds are ‘better.’ Then we’ll become dependent on seeds that you can’t replant. Our seeds are from this soil. It’s colonialism to say what seeds we can use and how to use them.” - Faustina Banakwoyem
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I'm happy to announce that I've been selected for the University of Georgia's prestigious Lilly Teaching Fellowship for 2021-2023 💫
Can't wait to meet the new cohort & learn about making my teaching more effective.
Inspired by my mother, the best teacher ever!❣
Ti diya! 🎉🎊
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They have a completely extractive relationship with African communities.
They harvest knowledge and disappear back to their homes to misrepresent us.
Once there's nothing left to harvest, they find a new indigenous community to "discover."
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African languages are NOT dialects
African languages are NOT dialects
African languages are NOT dialects
African languages are NOT dialects
African languages are NOT dialects
African languages are NOT dialects
African languages are NOT dialects
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This is why these white Africanists are scared of the new crop of Africans pushing back.
We are not supposed to talk back. We are supposed to be silent unspeaking "objects" that they study.
Their epistemologies are guided by the colonial legacies of their imperialist countries
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Being feminist is a constant state of learning, unlearning; doing and undoing.
We can't just slap the label on and proceed to do nothing. We have to keep reading & learning & theorizing from below. Do the work from our own communities.
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Dismantle the NGO industrial complex in Africa.
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"If Black residents own little yet make up the largest portion of the workforce, are they burning down their “own homes” or are they burning down a plantation?" by
@HalfAtlanta
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I am very happy to announce that my solo-authored paper won FIRST PLACE in the Faculty Paper Awards in
@ICD_AEJMC
at
@AEJMC
.
I ALSO won the Best Paper in African Journalism Studies Award.
OMG! OMG! Alhamdulillah!
Dedicating these awards to my mum & dad.❣
Ti diya! 🎉💃🏿🎊
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Dasiba!
Here's a soft copy of Nkrumah's book on neocolonialism and imperialism.
Given how difficult it is to find Osagyefo's books in Ghana, we're very lucky to have this.
Nkrumah never dies! ✊🏿 🇬🇭
Download here:
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Our beloved Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo has passed away. And what a legacy she has left behind!
We can all learn from the exemplary life she lived and radical politics she espoused.
May she receive a monumental welcome in the ancestral realm. Naawuni mali mi ting ka o duoni. 🙏🏿
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At Ghana's Kantamanto market, around 15 million items of used clothing from Western countries arrive every week. The entire population of Ghana is only 30 million.
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In one job ad the NYT managed to play into the following tropes:
Virgin land waiting to be ravaged by a white colonizer
Asia's scramble for Africa
Africa=crime: pirates, terrorism
Africa: safaris, wild animals, no humans
Africans who love their simple life of poverty
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This phenomenon is called "I didn't know I was Black until I arrived in X Global North country because I was part of the elite class in my home country".
They organize for better conditions in the G North but uphold the status quo in the G South because they benefit from it.
Are there any good essays or papers on how some diaspora communities will advocate from a more left-leaning position while supporting more far-right policies/governments in their heritage country?
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"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non Westerners never do."
-Samuel P. Huntington
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And of course, this extractive behavior is enabled by some of our elders who sit on the boards of journals and uni presses and tell them what excellent researchers they are.
Same shameless elders work to undermine our efforts at holding these colonizers accountable.
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This is the result of a beautiful fusion of my ambitions & passion.
I remember when I left Ghana 🇬🇭 to pursue my master's my mama said to not return until I got a Ph.D.
I'm happy that I've made her very proud. 😎😎😎
Mama, I made it! 🎓🎉🎈🎊
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Take this white nonsense somewhere else.
We're African, breastfeeding is very very normal whether in public or private.
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What is this racist, colonial ass framing of this tweet?
Hide and seek with lions? Are you people okay?
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Nothing to see here.
Just me carrying a package on my head because I ran out of hands 😂
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The sad event happened in Accra.
She had a tremendous impact on the Ghanaian, African, Black feminist community fighting for a better world for all
I hope we honour her memory by continuing to fight for a more just world & bringing joy to the spaces we find ourselves in 🌻🌻🌻
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I just saw someone tweet that the reports of mistreatment of Africans on the Ukraine border is misinformation aimed at whipping up anti-Ukraine sentiments among African Americans.
Does your main character syndrome take a break ever?
What condescension!
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"Feminists refusal to make satisfying male desire the primary goal of female sexual liberation disturbed men. When we fully exercised our right to say no, then men who were our allies... were suddenly afraid of losing their open and easy access to sexual fulfillment."
-bell hooks
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“My landlord came to inform me one early morning in 2022 that he was increasing the rent from $111 to $800 a month
The place is now being occupied by a British couple and their kids.”
-Benjamin Kumah, a small business owner, Accra
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Colonizers cannot imagine Africa outside of being a place that is frozen in time.
They can't imagine Africa outside of these colonial frames that the BBC & CNN use when talking about literally anything happening on the continent.
This is how they manufacture consent to colonize
Calling Millet an "ancient family of grains" paints a picture of a forgotten food from times gone by, that needs to be rediscovered. Yet millet is a staple in many communities in Africa. It has never gone away, it has always been with us - the romanticization is sinister
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Not everyday diaspora wars. Sometimes meaningful, nuanced, critical engagement with our shared cultures. We owe that to ourselves.
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We are calling on our siblings in Africa and the diaspora to speak up against this injustice.
Queer Ghanaians lives are at stake.
Stand in solidarity with us as we fight the state & religious institutions to uphold the dignity & humanity of queer ppl
#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter
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White women getting their "Africanist autoethnography" published in leading African Studies journals when Africans are told by journal reviewers that we are too close to our own communities to "objectively" study them.
This is academia in a nutshell. 👆🏿
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Iyanla Vanzant Shuts R. Kelly Down After He Asks to Appear on ‘Fix My Life’ via
@atlblackstar
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Accra ppl are not serious. Even when they want to draw attention to the dire economic conditions in the country, they go speak to Afropolitan wannabes.
They could've gone to any trotro station to ask these questions but they chose to center the 1st world problems of the elites
What things could you afford in Ghana that you can’t now?
Kempinski swimming pool - 450 cedis
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Dasiba!
I am happy to announce that my latest publication which examines the erasure of ethnicity, language and cultural identity in Ghanaian social movements has been published.
Please DM for a copy. 🩵
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In my first ever interview with the
@guardian
, I talk about the globalization of African media and the way that anglophone Africa is dominating these representations and how indigenous African languages are pushed to the periphery.
Please watch & share!💜
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Accra people see economic exploitation and call it luxury. They like things that are too expensive so that they can say it's exclusive. Anything that shuts out access to poor people is luxury for them and they love it!
Emancipate yourselves, my people.
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Everybody and their mama getting jobs in African Studies except Africans 😭😭😭
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When your ancestors were in bed with colonizers & undermined our fight for independence from colonial rule, you find nothing wrong with having your wedding at a slave castle. You identify more with the oppressor bc you're an oppressor. Black Skin White Masks!
#OccupyJulorbiHouse
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I'm happy to announce that one of my very personal intellectual projects has been published by my dream journal THE Howard Journal of Communications.
Very fitting that it's published on MLK Day
My first of many articles on Decolonization
Please RT!
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I am happy to announce that my multiple award-winning paper has been published. 💥🔥💫
Here, I discuss the Dagbang philosophy of Bilchiinsi, South-South connections and their usefulness for decolonizing research methodologies.
Download free eprints here:
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We will forever hold you in our hearts.
We are lucky to have walked this earth the same time as you.
We are thankful for the time we got with you and the time we will continue to have with you through your legacy. 🙏🏿♥️
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Good morning!
If you haven't yet, please ask your university library to order our book. Thank you! 😊
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I just unfriended someone on fb for calling Nana Addo a visionary, competent and compassionate president. lol
By this time??? Read the room!
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My baby finally arrived. 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
10 years of higher education, 220 pages and a lot of sweat later, here I am. 🥇🏆🏅
Thankful for Dagbamba and our knowledge systems. 🦁
Ti diya!
Yi Duagte yurigu. 😂😂😂
Duagte Duagte! 📚
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Ignatius Annor, a journalist in Ghana, came out as gay during a live television broadcast on Monday (22 February), a stunning move in a country where homosexuality is illegal.
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Liberté, égalité, bedbugité
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Stepping out tonight because it's been a long ass week. 🤥🤪🙃
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Unpaid work is a luxury poor people can't afford
Unpaid work is a luxury poor people can't afford
Unpaid work is a luxury poor people can't afford
Unpaid work is a luxury poor people can't afford
Unpaid work is a luxury poor people can't afford
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You know African knowledge is colonized when you have to spend time in a European country to study archival material on African communities.
We are slapped in the face by epistemic violence everyday.
#DecolonizeKnowledge
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Checking your friends for their bigoted and problematic politics is an act of radical love. We grow from acknowleding our privileges and keeping an open mind about unlearning our toxic politics.
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I won a top paper award at the
#NAAAS2018
Title
Active Listening: Deconstructing Indigenous Language News Reception in Ghana
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I won THE 2019 Best Paper Award for African Journalism Studies at ICA. Omg! Omg! Omg! 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
So thankful to Dr. Anthony Olorunnisola, Dr. Gabeba Baderoon and Dr. Zimitri Erasmus for guidance on this paper. 💛💛💛
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Happy Women's Day to rural women, poor women, trans women, queer women, old women, women with disabilities and all women who are perpetually erased and whose womanhood is constantly questioned and scrutinized by the capitalist, cisheteropatriarchy that we live in.
#8March
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This year, creatives will NOT be paid in exposure
Creatives will NOT be paid in exposure
Creatives will NOT be paid in exposure
Creatives will NOT be paid in exposure
Creatives will NOT be paid in exposure
Creatives will NOT be paid in exposure
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This actually makes a lot of sense since African feminists like Mama etc. have theorized about femocracy/the First Lady Syndrome.
Femocracy describes how the office of the First Lady across African countries has been used to gatekeep gender activism and hijack feminist movements
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"She lived for Africa; she lived for the lives of African women; she dedicated her life to documenting African realities and deconstructing erroneous notions of what Africa is, who Africans are, and what the realities of Africans and their continent are."
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I reviewed a book on Witchcraft in Northern Ghana that focused on the Gnani Witch Village.
I nuanced how the gendered nature of witchcraft accusations are tied to the patriarchy and how these accusations affect the material reality of women.
Please RT!💛
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It's done.💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
Starting fall 2020, I'll be joining
@UGAGrady
as Assistant Professor of Global Media Industries (tenure track) at the University of Georgia.
Thankful to my advisor, Dr. Anthony Olorunnisola &
@PSUBellisario
for all the support. 🖤🖤🖤
This IS my year! 🔥🔥🔥
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Ghanaians have always been Islamophobic. They are just now doing it with their chests because many charismatic evangelical pastors sanction it in their sermons in their churches. This incident of asking a Muslim woman to take off her hijab is just a demonstration of how bad it is
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Dasiba!
After several years of blood, sweat and tears, our book on African Feminisms & Digital Media is finally coming out 💃🏿
Dr.
@kibona
has been such a dream to work with.💜 We're hoping to bring copies to a bookshop near you
You can order it here👇🏿
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Thread on Ghanaian-ness, the construction of the nation-state and the unsuccessful attempts at replacing ethnic identity with an (in)coherent national identity & the way Akan dominance erases other ethnic identities in the national imaginary & public sphere.
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Two months ago, my best friend died. She was 31. My heart was shattered into a million pieces. I still struggle with grief induced insomnia, and I see her almost every day; in a cute little butterfly, a magnificent sunflower, baby ducks swimming in a lake...
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"The “sassy, fat Black friend” is a very updated version of the “Mammy” trope. She is there to serve and protect thin characters, rarely ever with a story of her own, about who she is outside of their service to thinness."
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The state, religious institutions, the media & the public have harmed & perpetuated harm toward LGBT+ Ghanaians this month
You can support queer ppl by speaking up against queerphobia, donating, holding the govt & Prez
@NAkufoAddo
accountable
Donate here
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Capitalists colonizing indigenous foods destroys the livelihoods of indigenous farmers and annihilates indigenous food cultures.
Trying to make millet the next quinoa is nothing but bad news for African/GS farmers and communities.
This is death to indigenous gastronomies.
I’ve recently become fascinated by an ancient family of grains called millets. Here’s why:
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I don't care for colonizers' views on corruption in Ghana.
Why not Europe beyond colonialism, imperialism and resource exploitation?
The Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana Ron Strikker is asking Akufo-Addo; Why not Ghana Beyond Corruption?
Ghana yayɛ mɔbɔ dodo...
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What in the Patience Ozokwor shit is this? 😭😭😭
My mother-in-law wore a wedding dress to my wedding. So, yeah, top that one, Twitter.
#weddingfail
@jimmyfallon
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It's giving diaspora artists, comedians and actors caricaturizing their African parents for white audiences. 🤮
They went on a date with friends and dressed as African moms.. 😂😂 It’s so cute..
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Imperialism has always been and will always be self-serving. It has never been and will never be altruistic or "humanitarian."
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In my first feature for
@AJEnglish
, I ambitiously examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on education across all levels in Ghana.
I examine the regional, social and economic inequalities in our educational system.
Please read & share.
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bell hooks effortlessly blended theory and praxis in ways that made knowledge accessible and practical.
She went on to inspire many more on this path.
May she find rest with the ancestors. 💜💜💜
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It me!
An Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia in the USA, Dr. Wunpini F. Mohammed was our guest lecturer at the University for Development Studies today.
#PrideoftheNorth
#TheBaobabFamily
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