F.A.Akinwale
@fadojuAAAnthropology. Colonial history. Folklore. Literature. Linguistics. Music before digital beats. Language, of course. @SecretStoriesNG
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At this time when barbers and barbershops are terribly missed, here, I wrote a short coming-of-age memoir about my visits to the barbershop and about haircuts on @brittlepaper brittlepaper.com/2020/05/montag…
The radicalising events are numerous. For some people it was a deep humiliation at the hands of the Police or politicians. For others it was a life changing robbery. For some it just the injustice they experienced maybe after losing their life savings. For others it was violence
For all her ‘I don’t identify with being Nigerian’ she is maybe the most Nigerian™️ person to ever exist. ‘Sandwiches aren’t real food’ is something any Nigerian of a certain age can say.
Kemi Badenoch thinks sandwiches aren't real food so she has a steak delivered to her instead which she eats as she works as lunch 'is for wimps'. I really wonder if she thinks carefully about what she's about to say before she says it?
"Did anybody raise a voice in defence of those trees?" Niyi Osundare laments the large scale felling of trees in University of Ibadan to make way for a U.I. Heritage Bank. Says "Forest Echoes" in his collection "The Eye of the Earth" was written in the U.I. Botanical Gardens.
"Verify the veracity" gbáà ni! How do you hold yourself out as a lawyer--and presumably advise people on these things--when you can't make out what, on the very face of it, is calumnious and should ordinarily arouse your curiosity and sense of caution?
The Lagos-Ibadan railway is the poster child of poor implementation of infrastructure projects. How can you spend $1.6 billion on what is the busiest traffic corridor in Africa, then have only 2 daily passenger trains & freight sitting idle?
Imagine a citizen's distress remaining a mere story for oddity TV, without any govt agency caring to rescue her for a month! Story is evidence of the improvement in municipal services in Lagos over these past 2 decades. Could be better, sure. But Lagos of the 90s was a jungle.
In 1994, Sarah Oluwabunmi spent 28 days trapped between rock embankments at Tarkwa Bay, Lagos, until a private citizen saw her story on NTA and brought his engineers to drill through the rocks and free her. "No government agency made any attempt to rescue her." - P.M. News
I am grateful to everyone who has engaged with my fund-raising tweet. Today is another day to like, retweet, and, if convenient, donate to actualising my once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. My family and I are grateful. Thank you all. gofund.me/4f68dd5e
Busy day, but just to say I am obsessed with all the tweets that are applying olfactory ethics to real world scenarios. I love that I have somehow equipped everyone with new terminology and frameworks!
Olfactory Ethics lady is living an academic’s dream: laypeople are reading her thesis and citing it on social media to real world applications. All because of the degenerate behaviour of loving to degrade & promote fields you hate over promoting fields you like.
The public conversation space in Nigeria is sadly often dominated by folks who know little of whatever’s being discussed. Whether we’re talking refining or tax policy or foreign affairs or budgeting or livestock management. Name it. Too much talk-talk, not enough know-know.
If Einstein was Nigerian, alive in the last election, and wasn’t on the side of Twitter populist politics, it’d have been said that his works were thrash and too basic for civilization. Lol
Prof. Wole Soyinka’s superpowers are grammar and syntax. His thoughts are most shallow and ordinary - especially on society. I know writers half his age who have had greater and more measurable impact on the African society and the black child. His prize? Very political.
You too try to use grammar and syntax to convey your shallow and ordinary thoughts. Just try it, let's see.
Prof. Wole Soyinka’s superpowers are grammar and syntax. His thoughts are most shallow and ordinary - especially on society. I know writers half his age who have had greater and more measurable impact on the African society and the black child. His prize? Very political.
Gimpel the fool and Owen Meany.
5) Create products for the global market 6) FIGHT CORRUPTION. LET’S STOP CUTTING CORNERS.
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Dr. Ally Louks's PhD thesis is set to be one of the most influential theses of 21st century. Puts forward an original argument with remarkable clarity. Already has 85M+ views on X/Twitter. Most people criticizing her don't understand her argument at all. I have a PhD in…
I saw this play last night. Canticles for a Pyre Foretold by Wole Soyinka. The work grows on you. At first, aficionados of craft may raise a few technical queries, but these becomes redundant as the play drives towards its devastating, heartbreaking climax.
"His weird gift is he knows what people really want." UNC professor Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) on how Trump won
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It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.
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