Angela Uwase

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” - Morrison

[Judicaelle Irakoze @Judicaelle_]

Dear Sandrine, ​I have taken the time to read your post carefully point by point, and I want to offer a different perspective on this debate. Please bear with me as it will be long.

While I agree that corporate commodification and media algorithms deserve critical scrutiny, the conclusions you have drawn here, can be quite dangerous as they overlook key historical truths and dismiss personal autonomy.

1. you frame revealing or modern fashion solely as a product of Western commercialization/exploitation, contrasting it with authentic local culture. But that's not entirely true. Indigenous African clothing cultures across the continent including pre-colonial dress in many regions often featured minimal clothing, wraps, and exposed bodies without inherently linking skin to sexual desirability. Framing full coverage as the only culturally authentic alternative is actually an adoption of european modesty standards introduced during colonization, not indigenous heritage.

2. You argue that young women who choose revealing fashion are merely passive victims of algorithms, industries, and foreign influences who lack critical thinking. This infantalizes young people, especially women. It assumes that if a woman chooses to wear modern, body-conscious fashion, she must be brainwashed by western media, rather than exercising genuine personal style, comfort, or agency. Suggesting someone only chooses an outfit because they lack critical thinking is another form of policing.

3. You attempted to redefine freedom not as the right to choose what to wear, but as understanding what shapes our choices. But real freedom requires both critical awareness and the bodily autonomy to wear what one chooses without state, cultural, or moral judgment. One can critically understand how fashion industries work and still choose to wear a short dress simply because they like how it looks. Redefining freedom to exclude bodily choice sets up a dangerous slope toward state regulation under the pretense of protecting people from themselves.

4. You ask why sexual visibility is so disproportionately expected of the female body framing exposure as an expectation forced upon girls. You are partially correct but expecting women to modify their expression to resist commercialization unfairly make women's bodies as the battleground for cultural integrity. Men also consume globalized fashion (streetwear, suits, western labels), yet their choices are rarely framed as a threat to national identity or cultural erasure.

Critiquing global capitalism as you did is valid, but using that critique to invalidate women's personal choices and police their bodies is not. True cultural confidence lies in trusting young people especially women to exercise their bodily autonomy freely.

The issue has always been the oversexualization of women's bodies rather than the clothes they are wearing. You should ask yourself how do we create a society where no matter what a woman wears she won't be sexualized and her body won't be a battleground of cultural integrity

[stin_kagz @stin_kagz]

@XandrineUmutoni The flaw in this argument is that it risks treating women’s choices as less authentic simply because they are influenced by culture, media or commerce. External influence does not automatically erase agency.

[Central Bank of Rwanda @CentralBankRw]

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[Permanent Mission of Rwanda to The United Nations @RwandaUN]

This week in the Special Committee on Decolonization (C24), 🇷🇼Rwanda highlights that decolonization must go beyond political independence to restore dignity, and shared prosperity.

This can only be achieved through inclusive dialogue and regional engagement, not imposed narratives.

📺Watch via https://t.co/yDPokZYs2c

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The scariest answer to the Fermi Paradox is that there are no aliens at all.

They we are the only tiny candle of consciousness in an abyss of darkness.

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

Internship* or apprenticeship recommendations

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

Responses like this are the reason I come on Twitter 😄

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

@GajuHilda 😂😂😭 We live and we learn

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

@GajuHilda Oya se😂😂😩😩😩What did you say?😅

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

Imagine being born in a v. privileged family, not using that privilege to grow and advance yourself in a meaningful way….AND THEN still thinking you are better than everyone else because of that privileged family/place you were born in. Like my guy…😅😅

[Mpululu @MpululuOG]

Americans will have an all access passport and never make it anywhere outside the country 🥴

[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

Accurate.

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹🫂

[Doris 🇷🇼 @DodoPicard]

When we talk about them, we share a million anecdotes, we talk about their quirks and flaws. The manner of their deaths is almost forgotten at times. Their killers are not part of their stories. We rarely mention them. And that’s how their lives truly triumph over their deaths.

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

Need to learn how to drive ASAP in case someone does this for me🥹🥹

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

MrBeast really tipped a whole car

[George Mack @george__mack]

My favorite question in 2023:

What is ignored by the media -- but will be studied by historians?

Here's the 9 best examples:

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

@MfundoRadebe 😂😂I don’t know why but I love it

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

@GajuHilda 😂😂still very tempted to reread them at my big age🙈

[Angela Uwase @Angielxxe]

Loved this series😍If you haven’t read it…dystopian authors (almost) always deliver!