folukeifejola
@folukeifejola.bsky.social
Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet.
Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge.
Handle on all socials: folukeifejola
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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This is the short video introduction I recorded (edited by Learning on Screen), explaining why I think using film to teach "law, race and decolonisation" is valuable.
youtu.be/rPx9z0ndlAM?...
youtu.be/rPx9z0ndlAM?...
This is a blog post that contains a curated playlist of movies, documentaries and television programmes for teaching "law, race and decolonisation" that I curated for BoB. The resources are grouped thematically, and also the post also includes further reading.
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Law, Race and Decolonisation: A video and essay teaching resource
Videos and related essays
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November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is the short video introduction I recorded (edited by Learning on Screen), explaining why I think using film to teach "law, race and decolonisation" is valuable.
youtu.be/rPx9z0ndlAM?...
youtu.be/rPx9z0ndlAM?...
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This is a blog post that contains a curated playlist of movies, documentaries and television programmes for teaching "law, race and decolonisation" that I curated for BoB. The resources are grouped thematically, and also the post also includes further reading.
folukeafrica.com/law-race-and...
folukeafrica.com/law-race-and...
Law, Race and Decolonisation: A video and essay teaching resource
Videos and related essays
folukeafrica.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is a blog post that contains a curated playlist of movies, documentaries and television programmes for teaching "law, race and decolonisation" that I curated for BoB. The resources are grouped thematically, and also the post also includes further reading.
folukeafrica.com/law-race-and...
folukeafrica.com/law-race-and...
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No word of a lie, a Nigerian interpretation of Hamlet will be absolute fire.
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Nigerian Shakespeare | One54 Africa Podcast
YouTube video by One54 Africa
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December 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
No word of a lie, a Nigerian interpretation of Hamlet will be absolute fire.
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youtube.com/shorts/3eiQ8...
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The following is a picture essay that reflects on a personal experience that informs my own understanding of what it means to lose your freedom of speech.
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Losing Your Freedom of Speech
So what does it mean to lose your freedom of speech? Let me tell you a story of what it means to me. I know that having your freedom of speech curtailed is not having people – no matter how m…
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December 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The following is a picture essay that reflects on a personal experience that informs my own understanding of what it means to lose your freedom of speech.
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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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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.
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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..."
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I wrote this at the passing of bell hooks [on 15/12/21], as a reflection on what her works and words tell us about education in a system that exhausts us and tries to take everything that is radical away from our pedagogy. Is there still hope in the classroom?
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To bell hooks and not being happy till we are all free
What bell hooks taught me… in her own words and a few of mine.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I wrote this at the passing of bell hooks [on 15/12/21], as a reflection on what her works and words tell us about education in a system that exhausts us and tries to take everything that is radical away from our pedagogy. Is there still hope in the classroom?
folukeafrica.com/to-bell-hook...
folukeafrica.com/to-bell-hook...
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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...
No word of a lie, a Nigerian interpretation of Hamlet will be absolute fire.
youtube.com/shorts/3eiQ8...
youtube.com/shorts/3eiQ8...
Nigerian Shakespeare | One54 Africa Podcast
YouTube video by One54 Africa
youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
No word of a lie, a Nigerian interpretation of Hamlet will be absolute fire.
youtube.com/shorts/3eiQ8...
youtube.com/shorts/3eiQ8...
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How to settle the Jollof wars (and make a massive profit): Have a Jollof only restaurant that serves all the major versions. Each week the version that attracts the most sales wins. Win is widely publicized. Dazall.
a plate of food with rice avocado and lettuce
Alt: a plate of food with jollof rice avocado, tomato and lettuce
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November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
How to settle the Jollof wars (and make a massive profit): Have a Jollof only restaurant that serves all the major versions. Each week the version that attracts the most sales wins. Win is widely publicized. Dazall.
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@nnedi.bsky.social I have never been reading a book and wanted to hop inside the story to fight some people. But the way I wanna drag Zelu's family in #DeathOfTheAuthor 😡😡 writing shouldn't be this good👏🏾👏🏾I'm only on chapter 22 so let me go back in and help this girl pack to move out!
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@nnedi.bsky.social I have never been reading a book and wanted to hop inside the story to fight some people. But the way I wanna drag Zelu's family in #DeathOfTheAuthor 😡😡 writing shouldn't be this good👏🏾👏🏾I'm only on chapter 22 so let me go back in and help this girl pack to move out!
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"All the racism" should be a valid and recognised reason for not going to work on any given day.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"All the racism" should be a valid and recognised reason for not going to work on any given day.
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"Forever Africa Conference and Events (FACE) is a Pan-African collective, established in 2017 and brought together by staff and students at the University of Bristol. Our focus was and still remains to creatively find ways to cultivate knowledge for, by and of African and African-descended people."
This post 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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November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"Forever Africa Conference and Events (FACE) is a Pan-African collective, established in 2017 and brought together by staff and students at the University of Bristol. Our focus was and still remains to creatively find ways to cultivate knowledge for, by and of African and African-descended people."
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Our core initial aim has been to build solidarity among African and African-descended members of Higher Education Institutions, in ways that specifically address the fundamental needs of these groups within these institutions.
This post 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...
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Forever Africa: A redesigned vision and an invitation
Read, share, join in a vision for flourishing futures.
folukeafrica.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our core initial aim has been to build solidarity among African and African-descended members of Higher Education Institutions, in ways that specifically address the fundamental needs of these groups within these institutions.
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We also instituted a student award and have begun planning a Cape Town to Cairo road trip—The Sankofa Caravan of Hope.
See links below
See links below
This post 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...
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Forever Africa: A redesigned vision and an invitation
Read, share, join in a vision for flourishing futures.
folukeafrica.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We also instituted a student award and have begun planning a Cape Town to Cairo road trip—The Sankofa Caravan of Hope.
See links below
See links below
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This post 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...
Forever Africa: A redesigned vision and an invitation
Read, share, join in a vision for flourishing futures.
folukeafrica.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This post 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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The University of Bristol Law School has three academic posts. The adverts close at midnight on the 4th January 2026.
Senior Lecturer in Law, Intellectual Property Law: lnkd.in/eKtEKRTQ
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Law, Criminal Law and/or the Law of Evidence lnkd.in/eRgmVsyK
Senior Lecturer in Law, Intellectual Property Law: lnkd.in/eKtEKRTQ
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Law, Criminal Law and/or the Law of Evidence lnkd.in/eRgmVsyK
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The University of Bristol Law School has three academic posts. The adverts close at midnight on the 4th January 2026.
Senior Lecturer in Law, Intellectual Property Law: lnkd.in/eKtEKRTQ
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Law, Criminal Law and/or the Law of Evidence lnkd.in/eRgmVsyK
Senior Lecturer in Law, Intellectual Property Law: lnkd.in/eKtEKRTQ
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Law, Criminal Law and/or the Law of Evidence lnkd.in/eRgmVsyK
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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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"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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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/
folukeafrica.com/who-am-i/
Who Am I?
I am Foluke Ifejola Adebisi and this is my blog.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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/
folukeafrica.com/who-am-i/
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Still wondering what people do on tikytoky...
Visit my linktree to: order my book, write a Goodreads review, check out my website, listen to my podcast, visit my YouTube channel, and much more...
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folukeifejola | Twitter, Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
African woman, lawyer, teacher, poet. Singer of songs, writer of words
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November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Still wondering what people do on tikytoky...
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This is the short video introduction I recorded (edited by Learning on Screen), explaining why I think using film to teach "law, race and decolonisation" is valuable.
youtu.be/rPx9z0ndlAM?...
youtu.be/rPx9z0ndlAM?...
Academic Playlists: Law Race and Decolonisation
YouTube video by Learning on Screen
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November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is the short video introduction I recorded (edited by Learning on Screen), explaining why I think using film to teach "law, race and decolonisation" is valuable.
youtu.be/rPx9z0ndlAM?...
youtu.be/rPx9z0ndlAM?...
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I used to think I was a fan of "Tour of Duty" till I started using YouTube and realised that I was actually a fan of "Paint It Black".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6f...
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Tour of Duty - Paint it Black
YouTube video by Hungerforsex
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December 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I used to think I was a fan of "Tour of Duty" till I started using YouTube and realised that I was actually a fan of "Paint It Black".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6f...
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"Will the history books track our breathing, our grieving, our sorrow?
Or like always, will history record only a litany of wins and success,
With no record of the dead, except in the earth that buried them and the broken hearts that loved them?
Where is the place of love in our record of history?"
Or like always, will history record only a litany of wins and success,
With no record of the dead, except in the earth that buried them and the broken hearts that loved them?
Where is the place of love in our record of history?"
I have lost some close family recently. All the losses have been sudden. The grief that has followed this has been compounded by the levels of global violence, uncertainty, and increasing fascism. For them and for us, I hope this verse helps… A grief poem.
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To Those Who Have Gone Ahead: Grieving while breathing
Where is the record of the dead, except in the earth that buried them and the broken hearts that loved them?
folukeafrica.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"Will the history books track our breathing, our grieving, our sorrow?
Or like always, will history record only a litany of wins and success,
With no record of the dead, except in the earth that buried them and the broken hearts that loved them?
Where is the place of love in our record of history?"
Or like always, will history record only a litany of wins and success,
With no record of the dead, except in the earth that buried them and the broken hearts that loved them?
Where is the place of love in our record of history?"
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One of my favourites here is Little Drummer Boy by Leslie Odom and the Mzansi Youth Choir
youtu.be/6idj_SZRstA
youtu.be/6idj_SZRstA
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
One of my favourites here is Little Drummer Boy by Leslie Odom and the Mzansi Youth Choir
youtu.be/6idj_SZRstA
youtu.be/6idj_SZRstA
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There is a picture of a Scary Claus in this post who perfectly illustrates the nature of the "Father Christmases" we experienced in Nigeria.
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
There is a picture of a Scary Claus in this post who perfectly illustrates the nature of the "Father Christmases" we experienced in Nigeria.