Loving books doesn’t make a book creator’s work any less valuable.
Reading, reviewing, filming, editing, designing, photographing, and building a community around books is creative labour.
Passion is not payment. Book creators deserve to be valued.
Ironically, this heated "Olodo Uprising" conversation is actually a good sign for Nigeria.
Nigeria is finally having its first endogenous, organically-defined culture war over an issue that is intrinsically important to Nigerian society.
Every other culture war that post-colonial Nigeria has fought until now has been imported Yankee slop, or imported religious slop, or both (LGBTQ, 3rd wave Feminism, "sexual liberation", tithing, NYSC hijab, etc).
A society fighting internal culture wars over its own self-defined issues is a society that is finally obtaining an identity of its own. Long may the war continue, and may the olodos suffer crushing defeat that dooms their uprising to the chapters of a Jude Bela historical documentary released in 2045.
hi!!
good morning/afternoon/evening all depending on when you see this tweet
there are still children who haven’t slept in a bed for close to a month,please don’t move on from them😕could be your nephews/nieces,children,younger siblings or even neighbors😔
The best thing you can do for yourself as a Nigerian is to use that internet connection of yours while you still can, and follow/read/watch information from a wide variety of sources from all over the world.
Your Nigerian media is a Europe-US information cage. When I say "Nigerian media", I'm not just talking about news platforms. I mean your popular social media bloggers. Your big content aggregators. Your online discussion and image boards. Everything is bought and paid for, and the money is always European or American.
Do yourself a favour and unplug.
Look for news, web content, TV series, movies and discussion forums from Asia, Latin America and other parts of Africa. Watch Brazilian TV shows. Watch Chinese documentaries. Watch Vietnamese movies. Follow social media content creators from Indonesia and Russia. Lurk on Pakistani message boards. Gain a wider picture of the world while you still have access to a relatively open internet that allows you to do so.
It's the best thing you can do for yourself.
i just imagined if there were no twitter, i’d be watching atilogwu festivals and learning how to bake cassava bread on nta, thinking the country is safe.
Abdulsamad Jamiu had one month left of his service year when he was killed in his home in Abuja.
The Nigerian army says it was a mistake and Jamiu was caught in a cross fire but his family says that's not what happened. Here's what we know so far.