Favour Borokini
@favourboroks.bsky.social
Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
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During my PG days, the uni security guys came to break up a dinner we were having. It was mostly Nigerians at the dinner. We were about 15 people all speaking at once. So the security fellows thought there was a fight going on. For Nigerians it was more of a quiet evening chat. Very seriously.
Nigerians tend to all speak at once. 😂
January 31, 2026 at 11:28 AM
During my PG days, the uni security guys came to break up a dinner we were having. It was mostly Nigerians at the dinner. We were about 15 people all speaking at once. So the security fellows thought there was a fight going on. For Nigerians it was more of a quiet evening chat. Very seriously.
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Lag. The federal judiciary is catching up — this is a remarkable order, it's only three pages. I recommend reading it. I have, in all of my time practicing law, never seen a judge do anything like this:
January 31, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Lag. The federal judiciary is catching up — this is a remarkable order, it's only three pages. I recommend reading it. I have, in all of my time practicing law, never seen a judge do anything like this:
I see this and raise you Nigerian legislator, Patrick Obahiagbon:
youtu.be/khcgcpcUMjE?...
Many such examples of his grandiloquence abound all over YouTube
youtu.be/khcgcpcUMjE?...
Many such examples of his grandiloquence abound all over YouTube
January 30, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I see this and raise you Nigerian legislator, Patrick Obahiagbon:
youtu.be/khcgcpcUMjE?...
Many such examples of his grandiloquence abound all over YouTube
youtu.be/khcgcpcUMjE?...
Many such examples of his grandiloquence abound all over YouTube
I imagine this kind of institutional distrust can be applied to all sorts of areas, vaccine hesitancy, savings and investment etc.
Not that any of these impeded internet fraudsters o, only small fry like us, just trying to get by.
Dumb.
Even for me abroad, the fear of PayPal is still the beginning of wisdom and I use it sparingly. Actually only once in close to four years in the UK.
Dumb.
Even for me abroad, the fear of PayPal is still the beginning of wisdom and I use it sparingly. Actually only once in close to four years in the UK.
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
I imagine this kind of institutional distrust can be applied to all sorts of areas, vaccine hesitancy, savings and investment etc.
Big discourse over PayPal now being available in Nigeria decades after Nigeria now has pretty decent fintech options for international payments.
No apology, no acknowledgement of the monies randomly confiscated by Nigerian gigworkers by PayPal. Just swooping in to reap benefits.
No apology, no acknowledgement of the monies randomly confiscated by Nigerian gigworkers by PayPal. Just swooping in to reap benefits.
January 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Big discourse over PayPal now being available in Nigeria decades after Nigeria now has pretty decent fintech options for international payments.
No apology, no acknowledgement of the monies randomly confiscated by Nigerian gigworkers by PayPal. Just swooping in to reap benefits.
No apology, no acknowledgement of the monies randomly confiscated by Nigerian gigworkers by PayPal. Just swooping in to reap benefits.
Coupists like other authoritarians have zero new ideas
Burkina Faso junta announces ban on all political parties
Burkina Faso junta announces ban on all political parties
The multiparty system had been "promoting division among citizens", the country's interior minister said.
www.bbc.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Coupists like other authoritarians have zero new ideas
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‘I was walking with giants’: Joshua pays emotional tribute to close friends Ghami and Latz
‘I was walking with giants’: Joshua pays emotional tribute to close friends Ghami and Latz
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Boxer fights back tears in first video since fatal car crash
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Joshua: ‘I am going to do what is right by them’
An emotional Anthony Joshua has insisted he knows what he has got to do after the death of close friends Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele last month, adding that their company was akin to “walking with giants”.
The two-time world heavyweight champion Joshua was involved in a fatal car crash in Nigeria on 29 December which killed Ghami and Ayodele and shocked the boxing fraternity. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:35 PM
‘I was walking with giants’: Joshua pays emotional tribute to close friends Ghami and Latz
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part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 AM
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
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Sadiq Khan says integration matters. But making refugee status temporary "will leave people in a precarious state, suspended in limbo for years, their lives overshadowed with uncertainty”
Doubling how long it takes people to settle "doesn't give people a stake in society, it takes that stake away"
Doubling how long it takes people to settle "doesn't give people a stake in society, it takes that stake away"
January 24, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Sadiq Khan says integration matters. But making refugee status temporary "will leave people in a precarious state, suspended in limbo for years, their lives overshadowed with uncertainty”
Doubling how long it takes people to settle "doesn't give people a stake in society, it takes that stake away"
Doubling how long it takes people to settle "doesn't give people a stake in society, it takes that stake away"
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Fixed terms and presidential systems aren't nearly as rare as Americans seem to think, but the point still stands that their constitutional setup is held together by tape at this point
It just now strikes me that the United States, unlike every other democracy in the world, has never ever ever had an early presidential election. This seems like a problem? Like you need to have an institutionalized path for designating an entire administration illegitimate and voting for a new one?
January 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Fixed terms and presidential systems aren't nearly as rare as Americans seem to think, but the point still stands that their constitutional setup is held together by tape at this point
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This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?
We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.
www.londoncentric.media
January 24, 2026 at 6:55 AM
This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
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#OtD 24 Jan 1979 a 35-year-old teacher from India arrived in London to marry her British fiancé. The immigration officer ordered that she be given a "virginity test" – state sanctioned sexual assault. Public outcry then led to the practice being ended stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9654...
January 24, 2026 at 6:10 AM
#OtD 24 Jan 1979 a 35-year-old teacher from India arrived in London to marry her British fiancé. The immigration officer ordered that she be given a "virginity test" – state sanctioned sexual assault. Public outcry then led to the practice being ended stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9654...
Ugh. I'm Yoruba and I have always cited that Bakare-Yusuf's article as critique of Oyewumi's work.
I feel quite pleased to see someone else articulate what I can really only refer to as image-washing amongst certain types of Global South scholars/elite.
I feel quite pleased to see someone else articulate what I can really only refer to as image-washing amongst certain types of Global South scholars/elite.
another terrific essay from bhatt--savage in her criticisms of various leftist darlings, incisive about how "the third world" so often functions more as a ideological bludgeon in intra-western slapfights than a real place full of real, diverse people
taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-coloni...
taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-coloni...
January 23, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Ugh. I'm Yoruba and I have always cited that Bakare-Yusuf's article as critique of Oyewumi's work.
I feel quite pleased to see someone else articulate what I can really only refer to as image-washing amongst certain types of Global South scholars/elite.
I feel quite pleased to see someone else articulate what I can really only refer to as image-washing amongst certain types of Global South scholars/elite.
Sigh not people using "there's more than one Nigerian accent" to import all sorts of most un-Nigerian accents into Nigerian accent-hood.
You're doing a wakanda-inspired accent and you're saying it's Nigerian. Is Nigeria in East Africa? 🤷🏿♀️
You're doing a wakanda-inspired accent and you're saying it's Nigerian. Is Nigeria in East Africa? 🤷🏿♀️
January 23, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Sigh not people using "there's more than one Nigerian accent" to import all sorts of most un-Nigerian accents into Nigerian accent-hood.
You're doing a wakanda-inspired accent and you're saying it's Nigerian. Is Nigeria in East Africa? 🤷🏿♀️
You're doing a wakanda-inspired accent and you're saying it's Nigerian. Is Nigeria in East Africa? 🤷🏿♀️
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Sooner or later, the nationalist internationale runs into the problem that nationalism almost always expresses itself through expansion, encroachment and coercion.
It's been great for transnational culture-war sh!tposting, but once they get into a position of power, they're crabs in a barrel.
It's been great for transnational culture-war sh!tposting, but once they get into a position of power, they're crabs in a barrel.
In populist split, Trump’s fans in Europe broke with him on Greenland
The European far right’s pushback showed the limits of the president’s with-me-or-against-me politics, a key obstacle to cooperation among nationalist parties.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Sooner or later, the nationalist internationale runs into the problem that nationalism almost always expresses itself through expansion, encroachment and coercion.
It's been great for transnational culture-war sh!tposting, but once they get into a position of power, they're crabs in a barrel.
It's been great for transnational culture-war sh!tposting, but once they get into a position of power, they're crabs in a barrel.
I've just listened to Mark Carney's speech and well, at least someone that prominent is willing to say what has been often unsaid.
I wonder what countries he considers middle powers though. I wonder where Africa features, if at all, in this speech and Canada's own culpability in global instability
I wonder what countries he considers middle powers though. I wonder where Africa features, if at all, in this speech and Canada's own culpability in global instability
January 22, 2026 at 7:50 AM
I've just listened to Mark Carney's speech and well, at least someone that prominent is willing to say what has been often unsaid.
I wonder what countries he considers middle powers though. I wonder where Africa features, if at all, in this speech and Canada's own culpability in global instability
I wonder what countries he considers middle powers though. I wonder where Africa features, if at all, in this speech and Canada's own culpability in global instability
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The idea that data is objective and good data practice means eliminating bias has it backwards. Data is subjective, and good data practice means tracing and identifying how the biases inherent to the data we construct serve or don’t serve specific peoples and ends to which that data is put to use.
January 21, 2026 at 3:11 AM
The idea that data is objective and good data practice means eliminating bias has it backwards. Data is subjective, and good data practice means tracing and identifying how the biases inherent to the data we construct serve or don’t serve specific peoples and ends to which that data is put to use.
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Like it’s not just technical data practices and design choices that make data systems biased. Data, what data ontologically is, is an observation of a specific thing from a specific point of view that has been socially constructed into data from a network of historical associations and choices.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Like it’s not just technical data practices and design choices that make data systems biased. Data, what data ontologically is, is an observation of a specific thing from a specific point of view that has been socially constructed into data from a network of historical associations and choices.
Some people don't even believe migrants can be conservative, that these are values we bring with us from our home countries. They're convinced it, like everything, is internalised white supremacy or that we're just ladder pullers.
So they're left without arguments against racists when some of
So they're left without arguments against racists when some of
There are a lot of people like this in first and second generation communities and BlueSky is often very uncomfortable acknowledging this.
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 20, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Some people don't even believe migrants can be conservative, that these are values we bring with us from our home countries. They're convinced it, like everything, is internalised white supremacy or that we're just ladder pullers.
So they're left without arguments against racists when some of
So they're left without arguments against racists when some of
A lot of this is again, a certain group of people, having more trust in the state and the legal system due to their status, privilege, lived experience and identity than others whose experiences they invalidate.
What a massive privilege it must be to retain such trust in the justice system even as/
What a massive privilege it must be to retain such trust in the justice system even as/
Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.
January 20, 2026 at 12:36 PM
A lot of this is again, a certain group of people, having more trust in the state and the legal system due to their status, privilege, lived experience and identity than others whose experiences they invalidate.
What a massive privilege it must be to retain such trust in the justice system even as/
What a massive privilege it must be to retain such trust in the justice system even as/
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To much of the Global South, Trump is acting like a typical US president.
To the Global North, he's a mad king, an aberrant, Hitler-like figure hellbent on global domination.
It's very telling and should be prompting everyone in the imperial core to reconsider their perspective and values.
To the Global North, he's a mad king, an aberrant, Hitler-like figure hellbent on global domination.
It's very telling and should be prompting everyone in the imperial core to reconsider their perspective and values.
January 20, 2026 at 12:48 AM
To much of the Global South, Trump is acting like a typical US president.
To the Global North, he's a mad king, an aberrant, Hitler-like figure hellbent on global domination.
It's very telling and should be prompting everyone in the imperial core to reconsider their perspective and values.
To the Global North, he's a mad king, an aberrant, Hitler-like figure hellbent on global domination.
It's very telling and should be prompting everyone in the imperial core to reconsider their perspective and values.
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What the US and our allies are experiencing now is what we've exported to the world for more than a century. It's the imperial boomerang. When it's done to us, we're outraged and think it's unacceptable, but when it's done to others, that's just how things are and you need to stop being an idealist.
January 20, 2026 at 12:57 AM
What the US and our allies are experiencing now is what we've exported to the world for more than a century. It's the imperial boomerang. When it's done to us, we're outraged and think it's unacceptable, but when it's done to others, that's just how things are and you need to stop being an idealist.