folukeifejola
@folukeifejola.bsky.social
Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet.
Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge.
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Website: FolukeAfrica.com
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Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge.
Handle on all socials: folukeifejola
Website: FolukeAfrica.com
https://linktr.ee/folukeifejola
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Invitation to join a Critical Research Network on Pedagogies of Race and Empire
For some time, several colleagues and I have been thinking of how to consolidate and build on the work that we have been doing individually in translating our anti-colonial and anti-racist research…
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My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. All welcome!
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In case you want to read more of my writing, I have created a page on my website with a list of my published materials in chronologically descending order, as well as access links. I have also linked to publications that have accompanying blog posts on my website. folukeafrica.com/publications/
Publications
A list of my published materials in chronologically descending order. Do let me know if there is anything you are unable to access. I have put a link to publications that have accompanying blog pos…
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December 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
In case you want to read more of my writing, I have created a page on my website with a list of my published materials in chronologically descending order, as well as access links. I have also linked to publications that have accompanying blog posts on my website. folukeafrica.com/publications/
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This article explains why, for students of colour, the law school has often felt like a space to which they cannot fully belong. "Seeking the university that is ours" The Law Teacher (2025): 1-17.
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Seeking the university that is ours: understanding, unpacking and unsettling Black students’ racialised (un)belonging in UK law schools
This article unpacks the nature of racialised (un)belonging experienced by law students – why for students of colour, the law school has often felt like a space to which they cannot fully belong. F...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This article explains why, for students of colour, the law school has often felt like a space to which they cannot fully belong. "Seeking the university that is ours" The Law Teacher (2025): 1-17.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Academic publications in 2025
1. I was pleased and extremely honoured to write a review for Bharat Malkani's book, "Racial Justice and the Limits of Law". It is the book every UK legal scholar needs. It is now out in the Journal for Law & Soc:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1. I was pleased and extremely honoured to write a review for Bharat Malkani's book, "Racial Justice and the Limits of Law". It is the book every UK legal scholar needs. It is now out in the Journal for Law & Soc:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Racial Justice and the Limits of Law By Bharat Malkani, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, 182 pp., £19.99
Click on the article title to read more.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Academic publications in 2025
1. I was pleased and extremely honoured to write a review for Bharat Malkani's book, "Racial Justice and the Limits of Law". It is the book every UK legal scholar needs. It is now out in the Journal for Law & Soc:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1. I was pleased and extremely honoured to write a review for Bharat Malkani's book, "Racial Justice and the Limits of Law". It is the book every UK legal scholar needs. It is now out in the Journal for Law & Soc:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The final blog post discusses the relationship between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism: how they help us understand and respond to law's inadequacy, dystopia, racial injustice, appropriation of trauma and the algorithmic racist bias of digital technologies.
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Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism Duelling and Dwelling Within ‘Black African Science Fiction’
An umbrella for reimagining racial justice covering a diversity of origins, methods, and futures
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The final blog post discusses the relationship between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism: how they help us understand and respond to law's inadequacy, dystopia, racial injustice, appropriation of trauma and the algorithmic racist bias of digital technologies.
folukeafrica.com/afrofuturism...
folukeafrica.com/afrofuturism...
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Blogpost 10 is an open letter to everyone who wants to participate in FACE. Please read, reflect, and share widely. Tag people. Subscribe to the mailing list. Join our conversations, participate in our programmes, and share ideas. Stand with us. Let us work together.
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Forever Africa: A redesigned vision and an invitation
Read, share, join in a vision for flourishing futures.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Blogpost 10 is an open letter to everyone who wants to participate in FACE. Please read, reflect, and share widely. Tag people. Subscribe to the mailing list. Join our conversations, participate in our programmes, and share ideas. Stand with us. Let us work together.
folukeafrica.com/forever-afri...
folukeafrica.com/forever-afri...
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Blogpost 9: 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.
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folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...
Racialised Un(belonging) within and beyond the University: The threads of a concept
Still seeking the university (and world) that we can belong to
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Blogpost 9: 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...
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Blog post 8: In which I interview my brother, who wrote a children's book. He talks with me about resources he developed through his journey of teaching his young son Yoruba in the Diaspora.
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A Guide to Learning Yoruba: An interview with Michael Ipinyomi, Author of Yoruba Phonics
Who also happens to be my brother!
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Blog post 8: In which I interview my brother, who wrote a children's book. He talks with me about resources he developed through his journey of teaching his young son Yoruba in the Diaspora.
folukeafrica.com/a-guide-to-l...
folukeafrica.com/a-guide-to-l...
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Blog post 7: An invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law, outlining who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network, and what we hope to achieve in it.
folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...
folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...
Invitation to join a Critical Research Network on Pedagogies of Race and Empire
For some time, several colleagues and I have been thinking of how to consolidate and build on the work that we have been doing individually in translating our anti-colonial and anti-racist research…
folukeafrica.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Blog post 7: An invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law, outlining who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network, and what we hope to achieve in it.
folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...
folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...
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Blog post 6 examines the efficacy of the Race Relations Act 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.
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What is there to Celebrate 60 years after the Passing of the Race Relations Act 1965?
Why should we celebrate limited progress that comes too late after more struggle than should really be necessary?
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Blog post 6 examines the efficacy of the Race Relations Act 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.
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folukeafrica.com/what-is-ther...
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Blog post 5 was a poetic response about the irony behind the "Island of Strangers" description. What makes us strangers is often the fact that despite everything, this type of language is still being used
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Still a One Way Street of Strangers
After all these years, why is it MY fault that we are still strangers?
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Blog post 5 was a poetic response about the irony behind the "Island of Strangers" description. What makes us strangers is often the fact that despite everything, this type of language is still being used
folukeafrica.com/still-a-one-...
folukeafrica.com/still-a-one-...
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African History Quiz I: Pre-colonial Years
Can we study ourselves out of perdition?
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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In blogpost 3 of 2025 I examined the origins and meanings of the word "decolonisation". It is often thrown about with the presumption that we all agree on its meaning, despite strong contrary evidence. But where did the word come from? What has it been used to mean?
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The Trouble with Defining Decolonisation: A table analogy and some reading
But remember, “The demand that Rhodes must fall should not be heard as a demand that Rhodes must read Fanon.”
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In blogpost 3 of 2025 I examined the origins and meanings of the word "decolonisation". It is often thrown about with the presumption that we all agree on its meaning, despite strong contrary evidence. But where did the word come from? What has it been used to mean?
folukeafrica.com/the-trouble-...
folukeafrica.com/the-trouble-...
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In the 2nd post of 2025, through the lens of a host of speculative fiction, like Supacell, Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀, Kindred, Lagoon, and Dr. Who, I sought to question what to do about the incommensurability of racial justice within the terms of Euro-modern law.
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Law, Racial Justice, Black-Centred Sci-Fi & Imagining an Antiracist Future
Does the end of structural racism mean an end to the world as we know it?
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In the 2nd post of 2025, through the lens of a host of speculative fiction, like Supacell, Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀, Kindred, Lagoon, and Dr. Who, I sought to question what to do about the incommensurability of racial justice within the terms of Euro-modern law.
folukeafrica.com/law-racial-j...
folukeafrica.com/law-racial-j...
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Blog 1: "to accept that the world is broken is an invitation to repair. Humanity stands here with history’s ghosts in the ongoing ruins of Euro-modernity. And it is in these ruins that we must find the power to repair... to build something new... from these ruins."
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December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Blog 1: "to accept that the world is broken is an invitation to repair. Humanity stands here with history’s ghosts in the ongoing ruins of Euro-modernity. And it is in these ruins that we must find the power to repair... to build something new... from these ruins."
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It is December 1st and time to share my "Uncle Christmas" picture on another social media platform. (Any ideas on how to properly describe this in the ALT text info?)
December 1, 2023 at 11:16 AM
It is December 1st and time to share my "Uncle Christmas" picture on another social media platform. (Any ideas on how to properly describe this in the ALT text info?)
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Seems like a good concept to address retention disparities.
Blogpost 9: 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...
folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...
Racialised Un(belonging) within and beyond the University: The threads of a concept
Still seeking the university (and world) that we can belong to
folukeafrica.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Seems like a good concept to address retention disparities.
Blog 1: "to accept that the world is broken is an invitation to repair. Humanity stands here with history’s ghosts in the ongoing ruins of Euro-modernity. And it is in these ruins that we must find the power to repair... to build something new... from these ruins."
folukeafrica.com/falling-apar...
folukeafrica.com/falling-apar...
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Blog 1: "to accept that the world is broken is an invitation to repair. Humanity stands here with history’s ghosts in the ongoing ruins of Euro-modernity. And it is in these ruins that we must find the power to repair... to build something new... from these ruins."
folukeafrica.com/falling-apar...
folukeafrica.com/falling-apar...
"At the end of these 90 minutes, I’m still not entirely sure what it was about. I just know that around the time Denise Richards started poisoning a woman who had just sent someone else into anaphylactic shock, I deeply considered dumping cinnamon into my eyeballs and blinding myself."
Tis the season for icky yet adorable Christmas movies. I seem to have found a nearly unredeemable one. I seemed to have watched it for the hilarious reviews:
www.theringer.com/movies/2022/...
www.theringer.com/movies/2022/...
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 18: ‘My Christmas Fiancé’
Through 17 days, this has been a mostly judgment-free zone—BUT NO LONGER!
www.theringer.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"At the end of these 90 minutes, I’m still not entirely sure what it was about. I just know that around the time Denise Richards started poisoning a woman who had just sent someone else into anaphylactic shock, I deeply considered dumping cinnamon into my eyeballs and blinding myself."
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Tis the season for icky yet adorable Christmas movies. I seem to have found a nearly unredeemable one. I seemed to have watched it for the hilarious reviews:
www.theringer.com/movies/2022/...
www.theringer.com/movies/2022/...
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 18: ‘My Christmas Fiancé’
Through 17 days, this has been a mostly judgment-free zone—BUT NO LONGER!
www.theringer.com
October 9, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Tis the season for icky yet adorable Christmas movies. I seem to have found a nearly unredeemable one. I seemed to have watched it for the hilarious reviews:
www.theringer.com/movies/2022/...
www.theringer.com/movies/2022/...
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I wrote this nearly 10 years ago, about how "we spend so long looking forward to Christmas. But there is always, at the centre of all this longing for Christmas, a heavy dose of nostalgia. We want yesterday’s Christmases..."
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Dreaming of a White Christmas in Ilorin
The Christmases of my youth were all the more beautiful because they can never be replicated.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I wrote this nearly 10 years ago, about how "we spend so long looking forward to Christmas. But there is always, at the centre of all this longing for Christmas, a heavy dose of nostalgia. We want yesterday’s Christmases..."
folukeafrica.com/dreaming-of-...
folukeafrica.com/dreaming-of-...
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"We did not revel in the idea of Christmas presents (we had very few) or the dubious ‘magic’ of Christmas. We had jollof rice and chicken—who needs magic when you have jollof? We sang all the wrong words to all the classic Christmas carols [Who had ever heard of a ONE-HORSE open sleigh???]"
I wrote this nearly 10 years ago, about how "we spend so long looking forward to Christmas. But there is always, at the centre of all this longing for Christmas, a heavy dose of nostalgia. We want yesterday’s Christmases..."
folukeafrica.com/dreaming-of-...
folukeafrica.com/dreaming-of-...
Dreaming of a White Christmas in Ilorin
The Christmases of my youth were all the more beautiful because they can never be replicated.
folukeafrica.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"We did not revel in the idea of Christmas presents (we had very few) or the dubious ‘magic’ of Christmas. We had jollof rice and chicken—who needs magic when you have jollof? We sang all the wrong words to all the classic Christmas carols [Who had ever heard of a ONE-HORSE open sleigh???]"
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One of the songs from my "Around the World at Christmas" play list
Nkulungwana Hi Dzonga youtu.be/by3GXDwzKxo
Nkulungwana Hi Dzonga youtu.be/by3GXDwzKxo
December 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
One of the songs from my "Around the World at Christmas" play list
Nkulungwana Hi Dzonga youtu.be/by3GXDwzKxo
Nkulungwana Hi Dzonga youtu.be/by3GXDwzKxo
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Here it is again: my playlist of my favourite Christmas songs from around the world. Additional suggestions are very welcome.
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Christmas
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December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Here it is again: my playlist of my favourite Christmas songs from around the world. Additional suggestions are very welcome.
open.spotify.com/playlist/2nt...
open.spotify.com/playlist/2nt...
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“Why capitalism?” Because it’s a system that flourishes on greed, hostility, unnecessary competition, and failure. Four things that humanity has a rare talent for cultivating.
Yes, failure. Most new companies go bust in their first few years. No other system would accept wastage like that.
Yes, failure. Most new companies go bust in their first few years. No other system would accept wastage like that.
Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives
The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
“Why capitalism?” Because it’s a system that flourishes on greed, hostility, unnecessary competition, and failure. Four things that humanity has a rare talent for cultivating.
Yes, failure. Most new companies go bust in their first few years. No other system would accept wastage like that.
Yes, failure. Most new companies go bust in their first few years. No other system would accept wastage like that.
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lotta people talking about The Times We Live In without saying the words white or whiteness or white supremacy (often opting for some version of ‘power’ or ‘bootlicking’ or ‘cowardice,’ which are NOT sufficient substitutes) and I just think that’s a huge problem/reason things are they way they are
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
lotta people talking about The Times We Live In without saying the words white or whiteness or white supremacy (often opting for some version of ‘power’ or ‘bootlicking’ or ‘cowardice,’ which are NOT sufficient substitutes) and I just think that’s a huge problem/reason things are they way they are