Musa Okwonga

Author. Co-founder, @stadio. Fellow, @RSLiterature. Honorary Fellow, @StJohnsOx.

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

Elect a clown, expect a circus.

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

My reply to @JakeWSimons is below.

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Let’s start with one typical example. The writer Musa Okwonga and I have rather lost touch over the years, but I remember him as a man of great intelligence, sensitivity and good humour. We met at university and, some years after graduating, travelled to Israel together to play in a good-natured writers’ football tournament. We had a good time and as I recall, he loved the country.
Which is why I found his latest Substack essay so disturbing. “Genocide,” it begins. “We should probably start there.” Israel, he writes, is committing that worst of all crimes. Its troops are “using children for target practice”, its politicians engaged in a “process of revenge against the Palestinian population”.
He compares its conduct to the Ugandan atrocities against the Acholi, his own people. “Genocide infects and corrupts everything it touches,” he writes. True enough. Only in the case of Gaza, Musa, it’s quite obviously not a genocide...
New post. Link in first reply

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

Circling back to this.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

never thought I’d be more hopeful about socialism than arsenal and yet here we are.

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

Translated: “I am jealous of the attention my actual coach and players are getting - I’m even jealous of that guy with the big hair - let me have a childish rant for clout”

[Ben Bloch @realBenBloch]

🚨 NEW: "The UK has been colonised by immigrants," Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has told @EdConwaySky.

“You can't have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” he said. “I mean, the UK has been colonised. It’s costing too much money.

“The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people.”

He also said of the PM: “I don’t know whether it's just the apparatus that hasn't allowed Keir to do it or, or he's maybe too nice - I mean, Keir is a nice man. I like him, but it's a tough job and I think you have to do some difficult things with the UK to get it back on track, because at the moment I don't think the economy is in a good state."

Read the full piece here: https://t.co/RRPRdz4X9K

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

In 2021, 60 Jewish associations in Germany warned that the AfD party was "a hotbed for anti-Semitism" (https://t.co/kNMJSlQI1v), a party who gave Farage a standing ovation in 2017 as their honoured guest (https://t.co/DV2M6nfL97). For anyone saying "it was all 50 years ago".

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

https://t.co/1505Gy7ORA - my new article; if of interest, please share.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Peter Ettedgui who was at Dulwich college with Nigel Farage,

"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me and knowing that I am Jewish saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas them' which was frequently followed by a hissing sound of escaping gas"

"As the grandchild of a couple who escaped from Hitler and Nazi Germany, whose families left behind perished in the holocaust"

"This was extremely wounding and upsetting"

#Newsnight play the clip of Farage denying the accusation asking, "How do you feel about that?"

Peter Ettedgui, "Really angry"

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers
https://t.co/ple5slwnqc

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Gaza tonight has risen to 52 Palestinians — including 17 CHILDREN.

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

"Is the Nazi MP who says she's driven mad by TV adverts full of Jews a racist or realist? How many people of Jewish heritage would the German National People’s Party expel? And should Germany be selling tanks to Yugoslavia?" Join LIVE from the Weimar Republic in the year 1931 🇩🇪

[Peston @itvpeston]

Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black and Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? And should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?

Join us LIVE at 9PM on X & YouTube or on ITV1 at 1045PM as @Peston put these questions to:

🌳Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch MP
🌹Defence Secretary John Healey MP
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn MP
🔵Conservative MP Esther McVey

#Peston

[Munchkin @BSonblast]

News out of Bara, North Kordofan indicates mass atrocities committed by RSF forces against civilians; large number of killed, injured & detained.

RSF took over the city yesterday.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

I’ll be speaking with Musa @Okwonga tomorrow as part of Podfest Berlin, the first @madingermanypod live. Come along!

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

My sources tell me that D’Angelo has passed. Wow. I have no words. May he rest in perfect peace.

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

@bykevinclark Love this.

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

Two strikes yesterday - one in Al-Kuma by SAF killing at least 16 civilians and one on a shelter in Al Fashir by the RSF, killing at least 53 civilians.

The people of N. Darfur are experiencing a special kind of hell.

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

This is madness and I'll keep saying it because it should be impossible but for the power of proper investment in youth football.

There are fewer than 15,000 males aged under 40 in this country.

Stunning @FaeroskFodbold

[Ronke Lawal @ronkelawal]

A contact of mine has launched a Yoruba tuition business.
The format: 10 minutes of Yoruba a day, 5 days a week, 4 weeks at a time.
The aim is to build your confidence and improve your language skills.
Here's a link to a free taster session.
RT
https://t.co/WBYidqVK4j

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

“The situation has gone beyond disaster and genocide inside the city, and the world remains silent.”

https://t.co/D6pU3xrFa0

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

@JonDBarker Thank you so much dude. That’s so kind of you. Hope we can do that before long. Xx

[Musa Okwonga @Okwonga]

@dankocean4ever @awfulannouncing Astonishing! This spoke to his soul!