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Favour Borokini
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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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"conversing" with a degree of ease and dynamism to function perfectly as a tool.

I think this is well illustrated by the photo here
February 8, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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A lot about the way this video seems utterly ignorant of the fact that this is a common body type among African women and the way it's been equated to a razz generational fad really irritates me.

So much about what it means to be African is already devalued and unknown to the rest of the world 🤷🏿‍♀️
January 11, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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Not even sure how to react to this video other than to say I agree.

You grow up in Nigeria, with a love-hate relationship with the country, constantly bemoaning all the ways things could be better, and you go abroad and meet people for whom Africa is the 'motherland', the land of milk and honey.
December 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Really enjoyed watching the Eyo festival stuff this year.

Not a Lagosian so I don't know the nitty gritty of the Eyo but I love the word play in the music among other things.

Ẹ̀yọ̀ the masquerade and ẹ yọ́ meaning rejoice. Yoruba is very tonal so you get the well wishing sense, (ẹ) yọ̀ nínú Ẹ̀yọ̀
December 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Biblically accurate Herod and Herod's soldiers
A poem by Charles Causley Innocent's Song Who's that knocking on the window, Who's that standing at the door, What are all those presents Lying on the kitchen floor? Who is the smiling stranger With hair as white as gin, What is he doing with the children And who could have let him in? Why has he rubies on his fingers, A cold, cold crown on his head, Why, when he caws his carol, Does the salty snow run red? Why does he ferry my fireside As a spider on a thread His fingers made of fuses Why does he ferry my fireside As a spider on a thread, His fingers made of fuses And his tongue of gingerbread? Why does the world before him Melt in a million suns, Why do his yellow, yearning eyes Burn like saffron buns? Watch where he comes walking Out of the Christmas flame, Dancing, double-talki ng: Herod is his name.
December 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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This reminds of this tweet I came across last weekend while searching for one of @rao2z.bsky.social's talks.

But the difference between how I see Nigerians use gen AI videos is so different because we're not trying to hide that it's AI. It's an absurdist medium that people use to make jokes or
A clear-eyed understanding of the strengths and limitations of a techn is a step towards advancing it. Blind cheerleading or unalloyed cynicism, in contrast, are just steps towards advancing your influencer career..
December 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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This is one of those the grass is greener on the other side things.

So I got my undergraduate law degree in Nigeria and I also did the mandatory qualifying Law programme. 5 years for the first, 1 year for the second - in all, 6 years as a Nigerian law student.
December 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Lol Nigerian restaurants in "the abroad" and bald extortion 😭

There's not a single ingredient in jollof that you can't find in a regular supermarket, well apart from habaneros/scotch bonnets which you can very easily find at the Asian shops + UK peppers are so much hotter than the Nigerian ones
December 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Watching this short clip again by @nytimes.com about the repatriation of the Benin bronzes and shaking my head at two slight, but pointed inaccuracies that say a lot about the way knowledge deficits hinder social progress in the video.

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The conflict around the Benin Bronzes is not really about climate controlor museum storage. It is about two entirely different understandings of what these pieces are. In the West, they are treated as fragile artifacts. For the Benin people, they are living vessels that hold spirit, lineage, and presence. The West sees objects. Benin sees ancestors. So when the Oba has a different vision for how they should live, it clashes with Western preservation ideals. But once you understand the spiritual role these bronzes play, the debate shifts. These are not collectibles. They are sacred technologies. And if an object is sacred, the culture that created it must have full authority over it. Repatriation without autonomy is not repatriation at all. It is supervision. The decision belongs to the Benin people. Only they can decide how a living spiritual object should live.
December 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Another day, another fight about cocoa. 😩

Funny thing is all along whenever I interrupt... cacao discourse to talk about the spelling and pronunciation I'm used to ie cocoa, as a Nigerian from Ondo State, it's always been rather lighthearted on my part.

I've even read somewhere that cacao and
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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"Australia turned to Nauru, and under the agreement which was finalised earlier this year, the deportees are given a 30-year visa that allows them to work on the island and mix freely with its 12,500 inhabitants."

I've seen To Your Eternity and I know Jananda when I see it.
October 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Lol. This thing is called out-group homogeneity bias and this is perhaps the first time I've seen it negatively impact Black Brits in a "Black Brits too don't belong here" sense rather than the well-intended but unfortunately inaccurate "Oh you're African, so you can enjoy this thing we've
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Lol. This is so true and so funny.

...at academic conferences (etc.)... much of the conversation centers on all the issues the book or article under discussion failed to address.... Almost inevitably, the piece that was "left out" happens to be the focus of the critic's own scholarly agenda.
Let me use an example that is closer to home. My experience has been that, at academic conferences, reading groups or colloquia, or in humanities or law classes, much of the conversation centers on all the issues the book or article under discussion failed to address. Thus, we hear that the author left out a consideration of X, which would have complicated her analysis, or that she failed to recognize the ways in which issues of power were embedded in Y, so she missed a key part of what was "really" going on, etc. Almost inevitably, the piece that was "left out" happens to be the focus of the critic's own scholarly agenda. These are not sympathetic readings. Because human experience is widely varied and multi-faceted, there will always be aspects of an issue that are omitted in any given scholarly account. But instead of focusing on what the author failed to do, we might look at what her particular project was and see if we can form the best possible understanding of that project. I remember
October 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Such a great article.

"The contrary of suspicion... is faith...
... the second faith of one who has engaged in hermeneutics, faith that has undergone criticism, postcritical faith."

"Knowingness is a state of soul which prevents shudders of awe. It makes one immune to romantic enthusiasm."
IV. A HERMENEUTICS OF MEANING, FAITH, AND SYMPATHETIC INTERPRETATION Ricoeur contrasts the hermeneutics of suspicion with a hermeneutics of meaning. This hermeneutics is based on a conception of faith. In Ricoeur's words, "The contrary of suspicion, I will say bluntly, is faith. What faith? No longer, to be sure, the first faith of the simple soul, but rather the second faith of one who has engaged in hermeneutics, faith that has undergone criticism, postcritical faith."' 16 Such faith is difficult if one employs the hermeneutics of suspicion because such a skeptical approach tends to promote "knowingness" rather than belief. Once one has exposed or demystified a cultural practice, it will inevitably be more difficult to believe in that practice whole-heartedly. One might accept it as the best of a bunch of poor alternatives, but it will lose its power to inspire. As Rorty argues, "Knowingness is a state of soul which prevents shudders of awe. It makes one immune to romantic enthusiasm." '17 For example, he points out that it is difficult to be inspired by a cultural practice while at the same time viewing that practice "as the product of a mechanism of cultural production.""' 8 To view a work in this way, he contends, may yield understanding, but not self-transformation. The hermeneutics of suspicion tends to require that the cultural practices under observation be placed within the framework of the critic. But if a practice, such as the work of the United States Supreme Court, is to have inspirational value, it must be allowed to recontextualize much of what the observer previously thought she knew; it cannot, at least at first, be itself recontextualized by what the observer already believes.' 19 Thus, if we
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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I actually do think this app works for some people. People who view it as a refuge, an island of sanity, and as a sort of retirement home and that's its problem.

Reminds me of Tolkien's reflections on the elves as embalmers.

Not preservers, embalmers
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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😂 Vindication

Link if anyone is interested theconversation.com/deeply-relig...
Screenshot from Conversation article titled Deeply religious African countries (surprisingly) provide little state support to religion – unlike countries in Europe by David Jeffery-Schwikkard, King's College London A politician might use religious rhetoric, but this does not mean that it will translate into religious laws. Equally, some state support for religion is not unusual globally. Analyses of single policies need to keep this in mind. This research also upends the way many people normally think about secularism. Many people in Europe have become less religious. Consequently, European states are offered as models of secularism. However, this has it backwards. Despite their electorates being less religious, European states are more involved in religion than their counterparts in sub-Saharan African. If secularism is the separation of religion and the state, then countries in sub-Saharan Africa – which maintain a secular state despite widespread religion – are in fact the exemplar.
February 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Spent the past week at the University of Leiden attending the VSR X ELS Academy PhD Days and presenting my research on Vulnerability and Minority at the Annual Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Law & Society Association (VSR) later in the week!

Also got to meet @linnetelwin.bsky.social in person!
February 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Hi all,

I'm organising a workshop for my PhD on afrofeminist design and use of avatars on the 6th of December in London and would like to invite anyone here interested in futurism, gaming, inclusive tech design and media.

To learn more, please visit this link: sway.office.com/pUJ4ozT6hug3...
November 30, 2023 at 5:34 PM