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2021 & 2024🎨🖌✏️

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Lara 💝💌 #westIndiesCricket

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"Sir Garfield Sobers wasn't only there for me during my successes. He was there for me during my dark times as well."
An emotional Brian Lara paid tribute to Sir Garfield Sobers at his funeral in Barbados this morning, calling for an initiative to be launched in his honour to help a resurgence of West Indies cricket.
Listen to his entire speech.
[Video courtesy TV8/Barbados]

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@Onz_11 Let's go! 🇭🇹💫⚽️💫🇭🇹

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@Onz_11 🤗 #okap 💙❤️

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"Looking away to big cities becomes easy and expected.
Our shame is that we expect our artists to to leave us, to do well somewhere else, to have the approval of foreign audiences, so we can know whom to applaud"
Derek Walcott, 1983. [A Branch of the Blue Nile]

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@udaonu @EgbuChinwe Thanks 🤗. He describes T&T 🇹🇹

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#Friday visitor 💛

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@DavidHundeyin 📍"...the sight of paragraphs is where he loses all motivation in life"

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" ... the sight of paragraphs is where he loses all motivation in life" 🫢🇹🇹

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The minute you understand the history of British colonisation and the wider logic of imperialism is the minute you free yourself from the mental tyranny of artificial constructs like "tribe."

Once you learn that the modern day "Yoruba," "Igbo" and "Hausa" identities are products of colonisation, and that there was in fact no such thing as a "Yoruba" or an "Igbo" people before the British created Nigeria (even the word "Yoruba" is an exonym that has no meaning in the language it describes), you finally understand the true extent and ugliness of what colonialism really was.

It was an audacious social and economic engineering project on the kind of scale that only a paranoid delusional who thinks he is a god should even be able to conceive of. The idea was to convert these diverse groups of millions of free African peoples (who constantly opposed and fought against the British empire) into self-replicating imperial drones who would eternally fight each other for the temporary privilege of being the most favoured servants of the empire, without it occurring to them that they could band together and break free from the empire instead.

Nothing was a coincidence. From their deliberate unbalancing of the tripartite ethnic power-sharing arrangement through the fraudulent census that counted more people in the Sahel than by the coast (the basis of Nigeria's everlasting population myth), to their use of the BBC World Service to brand the January 1966 putsch as an "Igbo coup," to their subtle and repeated use of Goodluck Jonathan's middle name (Azikiwe) on BBC Hausa and RFI Hausa during the 2011-2015 regime change operation...all of it was planned and deliberate.

And once you understand that the biggest threat Nigeria actually faces comes from DC, Paris, London, and Brussels - not from any group of Nigerian idiots doing whatever idiocy they are doing - you gain a proper sense of perspective, and you grasp where you stand in the wider world. At that point, "tribalism" starts to resemble dog faeces to you, because you understand where it came from, what role it serves, and who actively maintains it - including the American bot farms that have created "Nigerian" accounts with matric number handles to fan the flames of ethnic conflict all over Nigerian social media since 2022.

But I know that maybe like 50 people will even read this tweet this far because even though a Nigerian man will risk his life to scoop 50 litres of ka-boom-boom from a fallen petrol tanker, the sight of paragraphs is where he loses all motivation in life.

At best the sorry blockhead will comment "Grok summarise this" in the comment section.

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Jacmel, #haiti ✏️ on-location in 2011. Was not aware my colleague was taking a pic 🤗

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can yall pls tell me the lore behind your profile pictures

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@oconnorjustin13 Uncouple culture from economic rhetoric ... water & gender..." 💯

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@Stefanaj1234 🫂🕊

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@Onz_11 @Haitiantimes 💗 Cormier Plage

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@oconnorjustin13 🔥 gr8 read

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3/3 "These positions themselves are inherently imbued with meaning since facts cannot be created meaningless. Even as an ideal recorder, the chronicler necessarily produces meaning and, therefore, silences.
- Trouillot. 1995. Silencing The Past

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1/3 - Trouillot. 1995. “As sources fill the historical landscape with their facts, they reduce the room available to other facts. Even if we imagine the landscape to be forever expandable, the rule of interdependence implies that new facts cannot emerge in a vacuum.

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2/3 "They will have to gain their right to existence in light of the field constituted by previously created facts. They may dethrone some of these facts, erase or qualify others. The point remains that sources occupy competing positions in the historical landscape.