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[Emerald 💚 هداية @Mz_Tosyn]

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[Arojinle @arojinle1]

I witnessed something for the first time, today. A family member billed me 9 days ago because he had a family emergency. I sent him the money. The same person just sent me a billing voicenote now. It's not the billing that's actually making me write this. It's the fact that he used "view once" voicenote.

He probably has seen how Toluwanisings' relative's voicenotes are flying over the place. He's now trying to guard against the similar occurrence. He wants to bill me without evidence. This is the first time I'm seeing someone send a view once voicenote to bill. Everyone is getting smarter.

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[PELS AUTO OF IBADAN @PELSAUTOS]

A NEW AGE
A NEW TITLE
A NEW SEASON
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLUWAPELUMI O. OGUNRINDE
IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER 🙂

[Alhaji @yeankhar]

Starting a new chapter with a glass of Hennessy. Happy birthday to Me

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[JM @jayhemz]

When I got laid off from Microsoft, I got into a company in Lagos that felt paying 600k naira a month was doing me a favour. I had to take the offer to keep body and soul together.

Was there for 6 months until I fell out with the MD and started looking out. That was when I started my training outfit but couldn't quite get traction.

Anyway, after leaving this NGO, I spent another 5 months in the wilderness, literally. Ate rejections almost every other day. Was living on the goodwill of friends and relations. Basically wondering what to get out of life.

An Antler rep came knocking at the time and was in the process of fast tracking my application to the Antler cohort at Kenya. Guess what? My passport had expired. Ran to go fast track my passport, after a few days emailed the partner but was told it was too late.

I remember laying in my room laughing hysterically, mulling to myself, "who I offend?"

Thankfully at that time, I applied to Andela and the process started for another 2 months. I got into Andela and my monthly salary was my previous annual salary. This trend continued in a subsequent company. Use am run one or two that year.

But the point is, while I was enjoying this new reality, I asked myself, "why did you worry all those times?" In hindsight, there was no reason to. I should have just chilled for 5 months, enjoyed myself.

But we are human and can only understand life in hindsight. As long as you believe this it will work out for you: EVERYTHING will turn out better than you expected, just stop worrying.

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

Never underestimate the role your government plays in determining how successful you'll become in life.

[olawunmi🫧 @the_olawunmi]

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[Lily @lilyeguavoen]

OOTD.

Wearing KOKO by @Likukwen

[Risky Rikky🌚 @nerdy_deb]

Media update.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

To understand why poor societies end up creating expensive customs (e.g ostentatious and expensive wedding parties), you may have to think about these words of Oscar Wilde: "The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy."

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

Love the way she explains things. It is a skill a lot of people don't have, even when they're well-educated.

This also explains why, in African American communities, this is so prevalent. The currency has always been respect. It is why that ostentatiousness has remained. You see it in music videos, celebrity lifestyles, and online conversations.

You see the same thing in former European colonies across the Globe.

It is why the British habit of performing humility or "dressing down" clashes so sharply with the experience of ethnic minorities in Britain.

For Black & brown communities, "modesty" doesn't carry the same social currency. When minorities attempt that same casual, low-status aesthetic, they aren't granted the benefit of the doubt. Instead of being perceived as "humble" or
"grounded," they are often misread as unprofessional, submissive, or impoverished & easily looked down on.

It is also a lose-lose situation, a cultural catch-22, because when they try to dress up to compensate, they are socially punished for being too ostentatious in a society that values "stealth wealth".

This penalty is a gatekeeping mechanism. In old-money structures, "stealth wealth" is the ultimate flex b/c their status is already legally, historically, & institutionally guaranteed; they don't need to signal it.

But for post-colonial & minority communities, visibility is the protection. By branding visible success as 'tasteless,' the dominant culture effectively ensures that no matter how a minority chooses to present themselves, they can always be categorised as an "outsider."

[Sara 2.0 @SaraBangtan07]

She gets it. She just does

[Muna @Munalozy]

10/26.

A little recap.

[Kóre 🌑 @ZeynaOtub]

Namaste 🙏🏾

[J. @iamegiga]

Welcome Wes!

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Hermès

[Angel Obasi @StConnaisseur]

Fashion Week begins with monochrome. ✨

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An anniversary celebration with Andrea Iyama, in Andrea Iyama