I wonder which came first the music or the language. The beauty and confusion of a tonal language youtube.com/shorts/QfcBF...

we should take teaching more seriously

If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

This post is a reflection on what the film 'Just Mercy' [Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx] tells us about "neutral" law, perseverance, and the exceeding cost of entrenched systemic racial injustice. The film is about Bryan Stevenson's work to free people on death row. folukeafrica.com/just-mercy-o...

Not sure where to ask this kind of question anymore since I've withdrawn from many social media platforms but can anyone point me to information relating to the London Interdisciplinary School (#LIS) beyond the obvious I can find online? For example, who actually funds them? What's their ethos? Tx

Reminds me of the "review" I wrote of Louise Linton's "book".

Labour: YOU MUST INTEGRATE Also Labour: we might kick you out in a couple years so don't get to comfy yeah

This post is a reflection on what the film 'Just Mercy' [Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx] tells us about "neutral" law, perseverance, and the exceeding cost of entrenched systemic racial injustice. The film is about Bryan Stevenson's work to free people on death row. folukeafrica.com/just-mercy-o...

The UK Home Secretary says they want to restrict people to “one legal route to seeking asylum”. What is this legal route? You can’t get on a plane without a visa, you can’t get a visa without money and access to a third party application centre, not to mention trove of documents.

Watch this. Several times.

This is a wonderful critique of a recent decree to silence indigenous languages in educational settings in Nigeria, or as the author so aptly puts it, "On the Silencing of our Tongues." I wish the Lagos Review was here to add to the BLK Sky conversation.

'All The Little Things' follows Adae a young Black creative in an advertising agency, we begin to see how a series of interactions threaten to bring buried tensions and fresh resentments to a boiling point. Will Adae be able to move forward and pursue his dream job? vimeo.com/641858990

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

One day I will write an essay on the weird affinity Nigerians have for country music.

After blogging for 9 years and writing over 300 blog posts, my website passed a million views!!! My thanks to everyone who has contributed to this. I intend to write a reflection soon on my life as an academic blogger. In the meantime, here is a post on why I write. folukeafrica.com/who-am-i/

This is a thematic reading list of antiracism material that includes a wide range of sources: books, articles, videos, movies, etc. It is partially crowd-sourced. The decol list mentioned therein will be published soon. 🤞🏿 Suggestions for additions are very welcome. folukeafrica.com/an-anti-raci...

I used to pop bottle tops with my teeth till the day I was called to the Bar (ironically). My mum said that a member of such an exalted profession should not do that. She managed to convince me... www.youtube.com/shorts/apnLz...

I crowdsourced this reading list... for new [and old] law students who want to broaden their horizons and reflect on the ambivalent nature of law itself, having both the potential for freedom & unfreedom. Please share! Suggestions for additions are very welcome. folukeafrica.com/a-reading-li...

This essay contains the story of how the lure of hot amala nearly made me and my friends fail an exam during my undergraduate degree. There is also a nod to when we decided to brainstorm on what the plot of the original Sound of Music would have looked like if given the Nollywood treatment.

"In other words, Nigeria is a mere background for an intra-territorial contest of ideas between two sides that are unwilling or unable to understand the country and its people on their own terms."

West African children of the 80s, let me take you back...on a trip down memory lane youtu.be/4Svq1Ew6x5c?...

#Newblogpost!!! Here I unpack the term “racialised (un)belonging” as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity. folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...

Jenrick actually boasted that they’d deliberately crippled the processing system because they thought a huge backlog of cases would deter new claimants. It didn’t. 🤦‍♂️

You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way

We really need to bring back shame. Way too many people comfortable admitting they actually like pain and suffering so long as it’s inflicted on the “right” people.

Imagine going out there in public with your full chest and declaring that what you really need as a nation is more torture

"Among Western... commentators there is a tendency to enmesh it within a framework of the domestic culture wars in their societies. They have repurposed a debate about the persecution of Nigerian Christians for the globalization of their local grievances." coogunmodede.substack.com/p/some-strai...

This made me laugh so much. Also, I know these types of uncles. But all my own uncles are super lovely. www.youtube.com/shorts/1T2Ds...

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists. Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.

Anyway, enjoy your Monday, as much as is possible www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwh7...

"Caminante, son tus huellas El camino y nada más; Caminante, no hay camino, Se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace el camino, Y al volver la vista atrás Se ve la senda que nunca. Se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino. sino estelas en la mar." Antonio Machado

"He Dies Because We Die."

On 8 November 1965, the Race Relations Act 1965 received Royal Assent. In this essay, I examine the efficacy of the RRA 1965 as a tool for racial justice within the law. I ask if, 60 years after the passing of the Act, there is still any reason to celebrate it. folukeafrica.com/what-is-ther...

West African children of the 80s, let me take you back...on a trip down memory lane youtu.be/4Svq1Ew6x5c?...

One day I will write an essay on the weird affinity Nigerians have for country music.

After blogging for 9 years and writing over 300 blog posts, my website passed a million views!!! My thanks to everyone who has contributed to this. I intend to write a reflection soon on my life as an academic blogger. In the meantime, here is a post on why I write. folukeafrica.com/who-am-i/

To stay permanently refugees have to lean the language and establish a long-term career path, and they have to do this on the basis of rolling two-year residence permits. But who is going to invest in you as a worker if you might soon get kicked out?

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

I used to pop bottle tops with my teeth till the day I was called to the Bar (ironically). My mum said that a member of such an exalted profession should not do that. She managed to convince me... www.youtube.com/shorts/apnLz...

#Newblogpost!!! Here I unpack the term “racialised (un)belonging” as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity. folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...

A brilliant reading list, extensive but not overwhelming and usefully arranged in thematic sections. One suggestion for inclusion in the final section would be Isaac Julien's 1997 docudrama 'Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask'

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

artifacts made thru cultural beliefs & symbols may or may not be art, but they embody & are integral to heritage, community & identity. Looting (particularly via violent conquest), reclassifying & profiteering them irreparably disrupts & mocks cultural continuity, tradition & self-determination.

This is a thematic reading list of antiracism material that includes a wide range of sources: books, articles, videos, movies, etc. It is partially crowd-sourced. The decol list mentioned therein will be published soon. 🤞🏿 Suggestions for additions are very welcome. folukeafrica.com/an-anti-raci...

"He Dies Because We Die."

Idea for the new Bond: he should be a tastefully overweight Akan-Celt philosophy professor working on formal Africana social epistemology. His enemies should be Kantians. His catch phrase is "bazinga". I realise some people (racists) wouldn't like this, but, you know, just a thought.

What I call the museumification of human relations. The idea that other people's stuff should be stolen and kept in museums for you to look at.