Baba Fela & Baba Ngozi. Associate Prof @UGent. P I: ERC Project YORUBAPRINT. Author:African Literature in the Digital Age. Publisher & Journalist. Nigeria & UK.
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Yup! Over 90 percent of Europe too.
83% of Britain is white.
87% of MPs are white.
92% of police officers are white.
94% of the House of Lords is white.
85% of Britain’s richest families are white.
Yet we’re supposed to believe Britain is gripped by “systemic anti-white racism”?
Give it a rest.
It’s a far-right grievance industry built on outrage, not evidence. If white Britons overwhelmingly dominate politics, policing, wealth and power, the conspiracy theory simply doesn’t survive contact with reality. #UKPolitics
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The cops murdered a 1-year-old baby in Mississippi after someone falsely accused his mother of shoplifting from Walmart.
Even if the diapers were stolen that is no justification for cops to murder anyone let alone a child, but she had a receipt.
A baby is dead because of a shoot-first, murderous cop AND a racist person who profiled a Black mother and called the police over diapers that she didn’t even steal.
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Julius Malema drops a bombshell, but many South Africans aren’t ready for the conversation.
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The people of Sudan are enduring unimaginable suffering - and the world is watching.
I have written to the Foreign Secretary demanding the suspension of arms sales to the UAE.
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🟥 “Silence is the language of the oppressor.”
🔳Sudanese journalist Naji-Al Kurshabi breaks down mid-interview, saying he wishes he could write the stories instead of speak them because the pain of saying them aloud is unbearable.
🔳What’s happening in Sudan is not distant. It’s the same story as Gaza, as Syria the world watching while entire families are starved into silence and cities reduced to ash. Oppression has no borders. No colour. No excuse. If you care about justice in Gaza, you must care about Sudan too.
🔴Watch this man’s voice crack then ask yourself why those responsible are still met with handshakes, not handcuffs.
@MENAUncensored @waladkosti
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Trump & his ilk want a religious civil war in Nigeria. He doesn’t care about Nigerians. People wake up - Nigerian Christians & Muslims share the same enemy - it’s not a religious war - it’s religious violence against Christians AND Muslims. But it’s Christian Genocide trending.
Trump is exploiting Nigeria with half-truths in order to push the West geopolitical narrative that ‘Islam is the Enemy and Muslims are terrorists’. It’s bullshit.
The corrupt & inept Nigerian govt is responsible & should be accountable for the ongoing persecutions, killings & displacement of Nigerians by Boko Haram, ISWAP & other militant groups.
It's probably a burner account.
I don’t know if this is the burner account of @akada or @james_yeku. Gentlemen, next time just say the truth with your chest 😁
Well said, Prof.
This year, @rasaq_malik & I presented a paper that addressed this form of social optics in Nigeria at ALA in a panel org. by @akada . It's one of the most virulent instruments of oppression legitimized in our current democracy. We need to complete that paper when we have the time
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Of the anthology, Matthew Shenoda writes, "What’s evident in this gathering of poems is the divergent interplay between aesthetics, histories, cultural traditions, migrations, and their embodiment of spaces that help shape the contours of contemporary African life."
@rasaq_malik and I are grateful for this labor in documenting new voices for African urbanity. We are excited to share the cover of our work with you, and are ever indebted for the praises we received on this work from scholars and poets.
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As #BlackHistoryMonth comes to an end, we hear from our Chancellor, Professor @SirGeoffPalmer, on how it plays an important role in inspiring positive change for generations to come.
#HeriotWattUni
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On this day in 1968, Shirley Chisholm became first black woman elected to the United States Congress.
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A missing person report is being filed. He was last seen at Mbiabong by Oron Road, Uyo, Akwa Ibong.
Help me find my brother. Breaks my heart afresh to be sending this out. I just want Sam back.
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'NEVER RETURN': Trump campaign fires back at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after the Democratic lawmaker claims the former president's brain is "deteriorating" and that he's unfit to serve four more years in the White House. The full response. trib.al/OFVkUX5
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African countries queued up “in a corridor” in Washington to ask the IMF for loans, Kenyan Finance Minister John Mbadi revealed, adding that he felt embarrassed and demeaned.
“Then you’re called in one by one: Nigeria! Rwanda!”
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The FBI is investigating the death of a Black man found hanging in an abandoned house in Alabama, miles away from his home
Dennoriss Richardson’s wife fears her husband’s death was related to a lawsuit he filed against the local police department apnews.com/article/alabama-b…
