Tabitha Oyewole

A quiet soul who loves coffee, books, and TV shows. I am also trying to make sense of the world, hence the upcoming Ph.D.

[eliza ˙⋆✮ @enchantedflms]

bold of u to assume i ever stopped calling it twitter

[Damilola Coker @dacious__]

“This is it” 👌❤️

[tt✮⋆ @Bluebirdeyessss]

I love the word "interesting" cuz it's so chaotically neutral

[Adam W @adamwehib]

@em_Lazzy You really can’t think of a reason why Hillary wouldn’t be referred to by only “Clinton”? Try racking your brain really hard I’m sure you’ll figure it out eventually 👍

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

I've watched this video about a dozen times.

Every time, I'm inspired to make a different tweet.

Typed, deleted, typed, deleted.

I don't get it.

This is the state where a teacher was beheaded, look at them the following weekend.

And Akin Alabi? Stupefyingly embarrassing.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

46 children are still missing. FORTY SIX.

WE CAN'T AFFORD TO CELEBRATE ANY CHILDREN'S DAY.

WE JUST CAN'T.

LOOK AT THE AGES OF THE CHILDREN.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Children's day is in 2 days.

I ask of you:

Join me in bullying every single brand that intends to put out children's day celebratory posts.

There are children currently in captivity for the past 10 days - tiring out day and night.

We can't afford to celebrate children's day.

[iamopeyemi🃏 @OpeYeemiii]

When you abuse a system, you convince yourself you’re smart for exploiting loopholes and “beating” the policy. You celebrate it.

But the moment the system gets tired, readjusts itself, and starts tightening things up, suddenly it becomes “they don’t like us” or “this is discrimination.”

No. That refund policy on products exists for genuine customer protection, not for people to abuse repeatedly and ruin it for everyone else.

[stephen. 🇦🇷🇪🇸 @iHateYou4r]

i’m writing a movie about a serial killer that kills people around him because he’s addicted to burial rice

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

I just think it would be better for everyone if the people who make adhesive for maxi pads and the people who make adhesive for bookstore price stickers switched jobs

[OA @OpeAdedeji_]

I know what someone’s been watching.

[Street Medic @RndmStreetMedic]

Nobody should be called doctors except PhDs.

[Masterbeiter @TheGooveDuck]

It's "Queen PRIMER"

Not:
PREMIER
PREMER
PRIMIRE

QUEEN FUCKING PRIMER!!!!

I have said it before that mishearing is the foundation on which Nigerian English was built on.

Mishearing gave birth to Mispronounciation, which became Nigerian English.

We are always excusing Linguistics. Lmaooo.

[Mai & Global Consulting Partners @MaiandGCP]

This is actually a brilliant observation that deserves a proper answer. You are not wrong about what you are seeing. But what you are describing is exactly how languages disappear without anyone noticing.

Adamawa alone has over 40 documented languages. Bura, Vere, Chamba, Gaanda, Lala, Bacchama, Bata, Marghi and more and no they are not variations as you pointed out.

But most of them are slowly being swallowed by Hausa and Fulani because those are the languages of trade, mobility and survival.

So yes, your Borno security guard speaks Shuwa Arabic and your Sokoto okada man speaks Hausa and they understand each other perfectly. That does not mean only one language exists. It means one language won the economic argument. This is what linguists call language assimilation. The dominant language does not erase the others overnight. It just makes them less useful for daily survival until the younger generation stops learning them entirely.

Now here are the facts. Ethnologue, which is the world's most authoritative database on languages, currently documents 520 living indigenous languages in Nigeria alone. Not dialects. Languages. Nigeria has also already lost 12 indigenous languages or more to extinction. Gone forever.

The Middle Belt is where this becomes undeniable. Plateau State alone has over 50 distinct languages. Keyword "Dinstinct".

Benue has Tiv, Idoma, Igede and more. Taraba has communities that cannot understand their neighbours two villages away without a translator. Your Yoruba example actually proves the point perfectly. The fact that a Yoruba person can move across the Southwest and be understood is evidence of one dominant language absorbing regional variations over centuries. That process happened. It is still happening everywhere else in Nigeria right now.

Now I am willing to bet you have never heard of Hyam, Ngas, Mwaghavul, Berom, Amo, Buji, Sura, Anaguta, or Irigwe from Plateau State. Or Kilba, Huba, Bura-Pabir, and Chibok from Borno. Or Mumuye, Jenjo, Yukuben, and Wurkum from Taraba. Or Tur, Nyandang, Kugama and Taram further into the riverine communities nobody talks about. Or what about Igala, Ebira, Bassange, Bassa-Nge, Kakanda and Oworo from Kogi alone. I have not even touched Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa, Edo, Ondo, or Nasarawa yet. You want to know exactly where each of these is spoken? You will have to tour Nigeria for that. And I promise you, this country will humble you in ways no map ever could. The 500 languages are not cap. Most of them are just quietly dying (Bura has an estimated 11,000 speakers with most young Bura people now not able to speak the language) while we debate whether they exist. And that is the real conversation Nigeria should be having.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing.

The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs.

ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries.

Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year.

Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize.

Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now.

Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.

[co-creator with God. 🥼🩺 @MaryRoseMalomo]

It started with "tap current" in secondary school, mind you.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Agatha Christie knew poisons so well, her books have been consulted when diagnosing patients. In 1976, a London infant was dying of a rare illness. Her nurses, having read The Pale Horse, realized she had been poisoned with thallium. Murder mysteries saved her life.

[Favored Sinner @FavoredSinner]

I said something to my friend one day.

He was wearing a clean white roundneck, Primark camo trousers and cheap black Crocs. Fresh haircut too. Just looking neat and regular.

We were walking around the beach when we saw a white guy around our age wearing almost the exact same thing. Difference was his white tee was rough and slightly dirty, no haircut, looked more “careless”.

But somehow, in my head, he still looked better styled than my guy.

That moment really made me think.

Later I started reading about things like the “mere exposure effect” and implicit bias in psychology. Basically, the brain starts attaching beauty, style and desirability to whatever it keeps seeing repeatedly growing up.

For some of us, it was the women on Lux soap packs, relaxer boxes, Hollywood movies, university brochures we ordered from uk Universities in cyber cafés, fashion magazines, music videos. Your brain quietly builds a template for what “looks good” long before you realise it.

Same reason some people genuinely see dirty white sneakers and messy “effortless” dressing as stylish, while others were raised to see neatness and cleanliness as the ideal.

And for people who didn’t grow up with heavy Western media exposure, their beauty template might come more from Nollywood actresses, local celebrities, church culture or what was admired around them physically growing up.
Its why we all know the type of ladies truck drivers in Nigeria likes 😂.

A lot of what we think is “natural taste” is actually years of conditioning we didn’t notice happening.

[Euls Euls @LadyCharrr1]

Going through life with a signature I made when I was 16.

[💜Mo💜 @Moretlo_M]

Apple TV has some of the best shows on tv right now, when I say almost every show is worth watching I’m not exaggerating.