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Samson Ajagbe

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Research Associate, PhD @Unifreiburg, #Sociology, optimist, latest article in: https://t.co/Z85gxxbgco

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Now out in Discourse & Society: "Afro-diasporan racial discourse in Germany" journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

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Bola Tinubu: A President ready to risk it all for future generations By Michael Chibuzo This man called President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is painstakingly doing an architectural redesign of Nigeria's economic foundations. He has chosen to be the scapegoat and anyone who understands…

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Here's an opportunity for you 👇

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'Ojukwu's father built the Lagos Stock Exchange' - A clown implicitly claimed this on a space. Here is the report on the opening of the stock exchange from the Financial Times of June 15, 1961

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It seems the meaning of “Indigenous” has changed. 🤡 None of your papers show that Vivour or Rhodes were indigenes of Lagos! Circa 1888, Oscar Baumann in Fernando Po identified W.A. Vivour as a “Kosso - Sierra Leonean Negro,” not Yoruba! #Thread 👇 See Alt for link

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There has been a fresh attempt to rewrite the history of indigenous Lagosians as soon as they demand good governance from the Tinubu government. We share GRV's family history through news paper headlines to set a clear record. 1) 1935 - 38 Igbosere registered as a freehold.

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Application deadline extended to 10 September! 🚨 UNITAR and @‌MicrosoftAfrica invite women and youth from 24 African English-speaking countries to join the online digital skills training programme focused on Generative AI. Apply now here: event.unitar.org/full-catalog/b…

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Did You Know That Niger Delta States Were Receiving 45% Oil Derivation from 1970-1979 Despite Nigeria being run by Military Government? In 1970 the federal government adopted a compromise position. Oil-producing states were to split 45 percent of the total revenues based on the…

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This was Balewa's letter to the ANC. Liberating South Africa was central to his foreign policy. A policy that continued till we set up the South Africa Relief Fund(SAFR) & all civil servants were mandated to contribute 2% of their salaries to what became known as "Mandela Tax".

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During apartheid, when black South Africans couldn't obtain identity documents from their government, guess who issued them passports so they could travel and mobilise wider African support? Our bad leaders are a common predicament, they are not an excuse to hate each other.



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For my ERG StG on colonial violence work in Rwanda, Burundi and Congo *I am hiring* 3 PhD students. I am looking for students with a background in African History or associated, with fluency in either Kirundi/Kinyarwanda/Lingala and/or Swahili. More here: ugent.be/en/work/scient…


Never knew I have been this long on this app #MyXAnniversary

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Akala explaining about racism in the United Kingdom. It’s subtle, systemic and institutionalized. LISTEN!!!!! amp.twimg.com/v/e512d4cd-d7c…


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It is interesting how the debate about Lagos and origins has developed, featuring @seyilaw1 and @GRVlagos Being a keen student of history, especially West African and Nigerian, i have a few notes to post here that will correct the wrong and proud impression of @GRVlagos about


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Be my colleague! Fantastic opportunity for 2y postdoc @AbiFreiburg with focus on S or SE #Asia . Pls fwd and pls contact me, I'd love to chat about working here and in @Freiburg :) arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/jobsinterns… @SinanChu @chwirthNEAsia @AlexLHinton @SDestradi

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Here are the Banks holding billions of dollars in their position - not transaction backed

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This is Iru, it's a seed indigenous to West Africa used cooking, it has a distinctive smell. Who translates Iru to locust beans? What is locust about Iru? Locust" comes from the Latin locusta, meaning both "locust" (the insect) and "lobster" In Yoruba, we they are classified…

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New Special Issue Disinformation-for-Hire as Everyday Digital Labor in Social Media + Society edited by me and @jonathan_c_ong . The introductory essay + 2 articles are already available. More to come! @SocialMedia_Soc journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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Zik is not sombody you should defend There are some omitted histories here on his activities 1. The North remained intact because of Zik of the NCNC and Ahmadu Bello NPC who collaborated to squash the Middle Belt movement in the 50s twitter.com/General_Somto/…

“Nigeria On The Verge Of Collapse”- Legendary Actor Chief Pete Edochie Speaks About Nigeria’s Breakup, Igbo Marginalization, 1966 Coup Etc.



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✨ In our #JSLX dialogue section on "Undoing raciolinguistics" you will find the commentary by Wesley Y. Leonard entitled "Who is (not) engaged with undoing Raciolinguistics?". 🌐 Read it for free: buff.ly/419exgT ➡️ Leading discussion article: buff.ly/3uK3pLp

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A drone footage of the encroachment of the drainage channel on System 156 (fully built) Igbo-Efon to Ikota channel in Lekki. Red arrow indicator showing the extent of encroachment and total blockade and diversion of system 156 Into system 157 by the developers and property…


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The Strauss-Howe generation theory describes a recurrent cycle of same-aged groups with specific behavior patterns that change every 20 years. According to this theory, an 80-year cycle is crucial, when every four generations is associated to a crisis…

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