“I Too Have Stories to Tell” | Writer | Filmmaker | Yorùbá-Nigerian
Kano, Nigeria
Joined February 2020
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Grief is like my mother's last child—Dúrótími—who won't stand because he was born crippled.
Or stay with her, because her last breath was his first, and the living won't child the dead.
I am my mother's last child.
Grief, my only sibling.
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𝙊𝙟𝙪𝙠𝙬𝙪* 𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙨 𝙉𝙙𝙞 𝙄𝙜𝙗𝙤 𝙖 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮.
I’ve helped you fix that.
Read this 1968 open letter of resignation to Odumegwu Ojukwu from Robert S. Goldstein, Public Relations Representative of Biafra in the United States.
It should help you think more clearly.
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Awolowo pushed hard at the 1958 London conference for Ilorin and Kabba provinces (Yoruba areas now in Kwara/Kogi) to join the Western Region. Ahmadu Bello blocked it to keep Northern size and power intact. Azikiwe sided with the North. The Willink Commission suggested a high-threshold plebiscite but none was held before independence. Colonial boundaries from 19th-century conquests and political deals kept them in the North. Gowon later made Kwara instead of a merger.
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But àmàlà is “one useless Yorubá food”.
What happened to “I prefer other types of swallow”, “I also don't like àmàlà at all”, etc.
EVERY subtle bigotry against the Yorùbá people will be called out and held against you as the world takes note.
Kò sí bigger person òṣì kàn mọ
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An obidient was shocked to find out that peter obi said he was going to devalue the naira and borrow more money to defend it 😂😂😂😂😂
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Nigeria are #U17WWC finalists! 🇳🇬
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𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟭: Frank Willett's notes on the image 𝗧𝟴𝟰𝟮
𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟮: Restoration of T842 to its original state
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For context:
Diameter (aka. Fífẹ̀) = 1.5 inches, aka. 3.8 cm 😯
That is roughly same "fífẹ̀" as a table-tennis ball.
Feel free to use any of the images for your points
Cheers!
A large 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀-𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗱 [known as "𝗶𝘆𝘂̀𝗻" in Yorùbá language] dug up at Ìta-Ìdio, Ifẹ̀ on July 15th 1963
See: Frank Willett, "The Art of Ife," (2004), T842.
𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲-𝟮 shows my 'computational restoration' of this 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀-𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗱 (=𝗶𝘆𝘂̀𝗻) back to what it looked like when the finished product was freshly made 𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗳𝗲̣̀ centuries ago. This restoration captures the unique "𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿-𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁" that made Ifẹ̀'s glass famous in West Africa; from Borno to Mauritania.
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NB: The terracotta beaded-torso quoted below is noted (by Frank Willett) to still show some "𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁"; indicating that the woman captured in the artifact wore 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 & Ifẹ̀'s 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀.
Cheers!!!
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One minute Nigeria is called a "ZOO", the next minute you want presidency zoned. Pick a side; You can't be patriotic when convenient.
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PHOTOS: Politics has no prize for second or third place. Our mission: a battle for the soul of Ndigbo and the soul of Ndi Anambra in 2027.
We are ready to deliver President Tinubu for a second term!
Anambra is READY!
#ProgressivesWorkingTogether
#AnambraIsRising
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Image of the Biafran soldier who shot Isaac Adaka Boro.
Source: General Godwin Alabi-Isama, The Tragedy of Victory.
This is a firsthand military account.
Where is your own source? @Ogheneochukome
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Agatha, Peter Obi, the eight-year, two-term governor of Anambra State whom you so faithfully support, what did he EVER do to support the artistic and cultural spaces you have suddenly become an activist for?
Long before you joined X,
