Pluralism *not* FTW actually except ftw means something I don't know

Wow

Went out to look for Nigerian bread and frozen yam chips, came back with a large shawarma 🌚

I feel quite uncomfortable with how easy it is for Yahoo boy hunters to trace cybercriminals down to communities in Nigeria sha because the average Nigerian is incapable of flying down to *anywhere* in the Global North just as easily.

Lol crying at the flashbacks of all the stuff I said wrong yesterday and the ones I'm belatedly remembering this morning. Sigh. Sigh

Yes! More Nigerian food that isn't jollof rice! youtube.com/shorts/53Kp4...

Guess what I'm saying is many people outside the West don't consider AI an existential threat to their way of life. It's just... absorbed, I think, by all the other issues we have going on Like the watches and mirrors Europeans brought in the early contact period all those years ago,

After my seminar on African agency in AI few months ago a student asked me if I had any thoughts on how Africans were thinking about data centres and the environmental impact of AI, and I think my response may have been something of a let-down. Unfortunately that's just not how we think about AI

AI is popular *everywhere* except the West to be fair. And to my mind, this has very, very serious implications for doing "AI ethics" where AI ethics merely means western critique of AI. I think people in other parts of the world are concerned about different things and experience AI differently

A Nigerian university has cancelled a book launch and lecture on "Ifa tuntun" ("A new Ifá") - Ifá is the traditional Yoruba system of divination - following requests by Yoruba traditional religion practitioners who consider the idea of a new Ifa blasphemous.

"... Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, you may now put on your wigs" Gave a talk yesterday on the experiences of African law students in the UK and I feel such pride (among other emotions) watching these new wigs join the largest bar in Africa

Very very happy to see that these schoolkids and their teachers who were kidnapped in May in Nigeria have finally been rescued. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Paramount has released the Avatar trailer! Why didn't they get Dante Basco to voice Zuko though? Sigh

What is wrong with this conor McGregor of a person

Met with a friend from Law School this Wednesday and I couldn't stop staring at her two-year old. There wasn't much of a resemblance that I could see, but it just seems to me rather miraculous that someone I went to school with has a child, that pregnancy and childbirth are things people my age do?

Lol the sort of nonsense Global South feminists (who are accused of being "westernised") routinely put up with when they choose to oppose misogyny rather than stand in racial/class/ethnic solidarity with vile men

Why didn't I say the stuff about making the choice between the right to economic development and everything else 😩😭

Maybe I just need to eat some rice and stew

_The Iconography of ‘Otherness’ in Pre-Modern Visual Art: A Cross-Cultural Approach_ Edited by: Martin Bentz and Patrick Zeidler is out now, open access (free). www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

At times, in those last few months, he would think of a word and he had to remember the tree, or the species of frog, the sound denoted… —John Burnside, “The Last Man to Speak Ubykh“ published in the @lrb.co.uk, August 2002 #poem #poetry www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

Maybe states are bad

Feel like the issue with the Hamitic curse thing and other related (we are uniquely cursed/blessed) ideas is that they sap you of optimism and the will to imagine things differently? Why should policymakers invest in social cohesion and multiculturality if black people are culturally incompatible?

Silk is a very interesting series. I like Martha Costello

You know this is not a country where people know how to handle/what to do with heat because why are there so many buildings and shops with the ac on and the door open? 😩 Like you're walking past, and can feel chill air blowing out on as you walk past the door. It's like leaving the fridge open

Favour 🤝🏿 poor sense of direction

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Call to Bar season in Nigeria

You and who are the Hamites abeg

Not very sure about this talk I'm giving tomorrow. Hope it goes well. Always so much to say in such little time 😕

Discovered Daddy Loong shorts on YouTube and can't stop watching them!

After this foray into <redacted> +234ers will rerealise why it is we sing Kògbowó kògbobì 🙏🏿

Lol one of the funnier, hidden aspects of anti-immigration rhetoric is the one migrants experience from their countrymen who choose not/are unable to migrate. Can be a toss up who hates you more between the "go home, this isn't your country" and "come back home, that's not your country-ers"

And this is why people like Trump because authenticity, or what people mean when they say something is authentic isn't just "being yourself" it's achieving resonance. Something is authentic if it speaks to people, makes them feel seen, important, and people across the political divide crave this

Saying you want "authenticity" and picturing Mamdani is like saying you want a "Dad bod" and picturing Travis Kelce.

Another expression of how colonialism's racist legacies are a past that's not even past.

Somehow stumbled onto Elizabeth Deeks' letters about her time as a missionary in Nigeria. It's nice because it's set in Akure, which is where I'm from, and also because it goes into a lot of detail about her experiences as a teacher and Nigerian politics at the time.

Me, last week trying to ask my friend if she was upset at me: Do you think I'm a bad person? 🌚

Someone has brought what looks very much like an XL Bully on the bus. She says its name is Fury. 😶

A gentle reminder: “Reading to children, even before they can understand words, teaches them to associate books with love and affection.” (Princeton Book Review)

I have a deep suspicion that people just dislike female superheroes or expect them to appear in a very specific way. I suspect supergirl would be more popular if she was dressed like the Mord Sith or if she was entirely replaced with a younger superman or Lobo

Not sure why people disliked the Supergirl movie. It was pretty good

Lagos people and pronouncing àǹkàrá, àǹkárá 😑

It’s particularly funny because then we get all surprised when right wingers say we are indoctrinating their children and we’re all like “no, not at all, this is just knowledge” but then turn around and say that college level humanities should be a moral-remaking experience

There's a very interesting article by Penelope Pether that critiques the way literature and the humanities are magically expected to help law students (and this is an oversimplification) be good people. Does the process of acquiring a degree in these fields engender those sorts of qualities?

Just eaten the best puffpuff I've ever had since that event in Gravesend. I ordered 20 and I thought I'd give a friend like half but I think I've just eaten 8 balls in 5 minutes 😬

Well this is scary

Thus the Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent. -Karl Marx Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I think this is that thing latour talked about. Iirc, he was primarily referring to how the right has appropriated the language of scepticism, critique and deconstruction, developed by the left in service of conspiracy theories, climate denialism, war, etc.

In other "excellent news from religious bodies", the US Presbyterian General Assembly has formally voted to start the process to (correctly) declare white Christian nationalism a theological error incompatible with the teachings of Jesus: pres-outlook.org/2026/07/pcus...

Alice Coldbreath the writer that you are