Damola Awoyokun

Historian. Writer. Engineer. Author of Stained by Reason

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@RealCandaceO Go to their underground train stations too

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

This is not true.
All the intel and foreign embassy estimates tracking the war live then reported that an estimated 750,000 to 1 million died most of them soldiers of both sides.
But that was before propaganda took over.
Biafra chief propagandists said they inflated the numbers. If we say 1 million died, how do you prove or disprove it.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Cornelia Ginikanwa experienced the Nigerian Civil War first-hand, fighting with the Biafran Civil Defence Force and witnessing its devastating impact.

An estimated 500,000 to 3 million people died — over half were children.

📽️ Watch 'Surviving Biafra': https://t.co/xFd6eSohTR

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

Of course we knew that is what you are about when you were brandishing that Holy Rosary.
All of you rushing to be emergency Catholics to find an armour for their hatred.
You will lose and your children will find love and happiness and fulfilment in England or anywhere else they choose to call home.

[Frank Wright @frankwrighter]

@GarethDavies007 @RestoreBritain Thank you Gareth, though it is shocking to say the reality it describes is far worse than words.

If they don’t go home our children will never have one.

18.5 million migrants 1997-2024:

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

I remember designing steel frames for cabling and information boards on Crossrail. I was told to design them for hanging crowd loading too.

I said: “But it’s only for cabling. How would anyone get up there?”

They said: “You don’t know what football fans do on match day?”

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

As a structural engineer, I am so glad all our structures responded positively to crowd overloading and vibrations.
#QuietHeroes

[Met (C) 🏆 @AFCMet]

This image doesn’t even seem real. It seems like something from the 60s. Absolutely incredible.

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@bronwenmcshea What moved you about Confessions? Its one of the best ever I have read too.

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@QuoteNietzsche The title was changed in keeping with the times.
Classics stay above time.

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

First the abuse of the Rosary. Cf. Redemptionis Sacramentum.

Second, the Catholic Church was one of the first truly global institutions in human history. That is why you can find the same basic form of worship in Siberia and in a village in Chile. Yet some of the same people lament “globalisation” as if universality itself were the enemy.

The real question is: when does love of heritage become hatred of change?

In Must We Burn Sade?, Simone de Beauvoir argues that the Marquis de Sade, as a member of the landed gentry, could not bear the social transformation taking place around him. His psychosexual sadism were, in part, a revolt against a world he could no longer control.

I am not saying Frank is Sade. But the pattern is familiar: when people cannot cope with change, they often dress their fear up as defence of tradition.

The post-war consensus he values so much was itself a replacement of a pre-war consensus. Change is not the enemy of heritage. Sometimes it is the only reason heritage survives at all.

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@McDivad It is a great document. It was a percusor to Magnifica Humanitas. https://t.co/EFVcLUn9zs

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

BBL and other cosmetic modifications were addressed recently by the magisterium document Quo vadis, humanitas? https://t.co/f0fGI5SfJZ

[Turaki of Ilorin @McDivad]

Catholic to Catholic: What does the Church actually say about BBLs?

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@BishopBarron Preserve the latin Magnifica Humanitas. That the title not the subtitle. Latin is the offical language of the church. It is Rerum Novarum not On New Things.

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

I admire your passion and desire for change. The problem is not the political parties. The problem is in Westminster. No matter the party that is in power, they will end up the same with the failed policies.
There are some unseen forces controlling our politicians irrespective of party platform. And those forces would do so irrespective of party.
The day after Starmer go there, he announced £3B per year for Ukraine “as long as it takes.” Was that in the party manifesto? No. Did he run that past parliament? No.
He just announced it. You will be disappointed again if Restore gets there and they are not different from Cameron or Braverman.

[Frank Wright @frankwrighter]

It is good that Restore are seen as "the enemy of populism". Populism is a spasm, not a politics.

Restore has a serious duty to save the nation. Populists are con-men.

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@TaylorRMarshall Nope. Lumen Gentium calls the Holy Eucharist the centre and summit of the church. Hence the birthday is Holy Thursday

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@toluogunlesi @Rovingheights I will DM

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@nwoko_greg62705 Thanks for this. Kindly provide the citation pls.

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@ASIRIMagazine Congratulations on your impact.
I was published early by you!

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

Last week, London told two stories.
First, Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” rally tried to divide the city with the oldest weapons: blood, flag, heritage and belonging.
Days later, @Arsenal won the @premierleague and joy swept from London to Lagos, Kampala, New York and Malaysia.
The same people some wanted to cast as an existential threat to civilisation were suddenly friends hugging friends, singing the same songs, sharing the same victory.
It made me wonder: why do those who seek to divide us always reach for ancient things, while the things that unite us are now and alive?
Arsenal united the kingdom and the world.

[Damola Awoyokun @Osoronga]

@StartArchiving When do you think that would be?