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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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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"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.
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...
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.
folukeafrica.com
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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Apparently this is the wrong answer, so Wes Streeting is launching another review by a team picked to deliver a more convenient answer 🙄
Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.
Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Apparently this is the wrong answer, so Wes Streeting is launching another review by a team picked to deliver a more convenient answer 🙄
Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.
Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.
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I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
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The papers and everyone else can only make hay out of teenager Farage racism because if you talked about him today it would lead to some phenomenally awkward questions like "why does most of the political and journalistic establishment agree with him and why do they all talk about small boats?"
December 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The papers and everyone else can only make hay out of teenager Farage racism because if you talked about him today it would lead to some phenomenally awkward questions like "why does most of the political and journalistic establishment agree with him and why do they all talk about small boats?"
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This article is like a case study in the media normalisation of the far right.
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farage branded racist over campaign video remark about Glasgow pupils
The Reform UK leader said the proportion of children who do not have English as a first language in Glasgow was
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This article is like a case study in the media normalisation of the far right.
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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It's very obvious that if any other prominent politician had been so racist in school that it's haunted 20+ former classmates ever since, it would be treated like a bigger deal. We should examine how and why "still being very racist four decades later" is acting as Farage's protective shield.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It's very obvious that if any other prominent politician had been so racist in school that it's haunted 20+ former classmates ever since, it would be treated like a bigger deal. We should examine how and why "still being very racist four decades later" is acting as Farage's protective shield.
"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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⚖️ Nearly 60 years after Albert Luthuli’s death, a court has ruled he was murdered by apartheid police, correcting the record.
theconversation.com/who-was-albe...
#Politics
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#Politics
Who was Albert Luthuli? The murdered South African leader who put his people above himself
His image is the watermark in South African passports, but he is not as widely known as leaders like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
⚖️ Nearly 60 years after Albert Luthuli’s death, a court has ruled he was murdered by apartheid police, correcting the record.
theconversation.com/who-was-albe...
#Politics
theconversation.com/who-was-albe...
#Politics
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I would really love to read a novel set in Texas, centred in the absolutely mahussive Nigerian community there. It would be a fascinating take on Texas, I think. Any suggestions?
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I would really love to read a novel set in Texas, centred in the absolutely mahussive Nigerian community there. It would be a fascinating take on Texas, I think. Any suggestions?
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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.
folukeafrica.com
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-...
I would really love to read a novel set in Texas, centred in the absolutely mahussive Nigerian community there. It would be a fascinating take on Texas, I think. Any suggestions?
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I would really love to read a novel set in Texas, centred in the absolutely mahussive Nigerian community there. It would be a fascinating take on Texas, I think. Any suggestions?
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🌍 What if the biggest story about climate change in Africa is the one we’re not telling?
In this episode of #BehindTheFacts, we speak to Lanre Olagunju of CheckClimate Africa about how African fact-checkers are shaping the climate conversation — and busting myths that distort it.
In this episode of #BehindTheFacts, we speak to Lanre Olagunju of CheckClimate Africa about how African fact-checkers are shaping the climate conversation — and busting myths that distort it.
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
🌍 What if the biggest story about climate change in Africa is the one we’re not telling?
In this episode of #BehindTheFacts, we speak to Lanre Olagunju of CheckClimate Africa about how African fact-checkers are shaping the climate conversation — and busting myths that distort it.
In this episode of #BehindTheFacts, we speak to Lanre Olagunju of CheckClimate Africa about how African fact-checkers are shaping the climate conversation — and busting myths that distort it.
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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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Migrants moving to your local area is not a “legitimate reason” for racism.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Migrants moving to your local area is not a “legitimate reason” for racism.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
LGBT folk being more visible in schools is not a “legitimate reason” for homo/transphobia.
Women not wanting to date you is not a “legitimate reason” for misogyny.
There’s no “legitimate reason” for bigotry.
Just saying.
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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.
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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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This is such a dishonest attack from The Spectator. They criticise on grounds that the series isn’t ‘balanced’, but this is based on an absurd idea that every criticism must be balanced with a bit of praise. Thus, we arrive at a 1:1 praise/blame ratio in our discussion of Empire. That’s not history.
This is the first History Reclaimed attack on @davidolusoga.bsky.social’s BBC Empire series, in The Spectator. The thread on its recycled Telegraph version shows how criticisms of the representation of Mike Mountain Horse and the invasion of Ijebu are based on untruths. But else do they argue?
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is such a dishonest attack from The Spectator. They criticise on grounds that the series isn’t ‘balanced’, but this is based on an absurd idea that every criticism must be balanced with a bit of praise. Thus, we arrive at a 1:1 praise/blame ratio in our discussion of Empire. That’s not history.
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4. You see, the problem is this: History Reclaimed don’t know much about British colonialism. They’re not actually interested in it. They are a private company funded to prevent any truthful examination of the past that might challenge a right wing, white-centred version of the national story.
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
4. You see, the problem is this: History Reclaimed don’t know much about British colonialism. They’re not actually interested in it. They are a private company funded to prevent any truthful examination of the past that might challenge a right wing, white-centred version of the national story.
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2. That the BBC is being misleading by making a series on the British Empire that focuses on the British Empire.
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
2. That the BBC is being misleading by making a series on the British Empire that focuses on the British Empire.
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1. That the BBC has not been positive enough about the great famines in Ireland and Bengal. They don’t specify which of the Bengal famines, but assuming both that would be some 14 million deaths. Surely the BBC should have found a way of claiming them as triumphs of British rule?
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
1. That the BBC has not been positive enough about the great famines in Ireland and Bengal. They don’t specify which of the Bengal famines, but assuming both that would be some 14 million deaths. Surely the BBC should have found a way of claiming them as triumphs of British rule?
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
"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???]"