@nzemmili Afrobeats came from a fusion of highlife and blues(mostly James Brown). Highlife was introduced to Nigeria in the 1930s by the CapecoastSugar babies.
Thousands of anti-racism protesters drowned out a small far-right rally in Glasgow.
Close to three thousand people attended the protest, organised by Stand Up To Racism.
Belfast, Glasgow, Sheffield, Brighton, Newcastle and Liverpool.
Thousands took to the streets against racism and the politics of division.
In central London, educators came together in a powerful educators against the far right event.
Days like today matter.
They remind us that hatred is never the whole story. Beneath the noise the majority of people are determined to defend one another's humanity.
On today in Brighton
Brighton is never, ever, going to allow fascists to march in the city. It was a carnival and a party of anti-fascists. Parents and their kids, young people — Fatboy Slim even appeared and did a DJ set. Every single avenue and street was blocked.
The police, for some reason, decided to carve, using force, a 100m little walk in either direction of the station, before they ultimately sent the fascists home.
Questions need to be asked to why it was deemed necessary to use violence to carve a tiny walk for maximum 100 fascists against crowds of thousands.
They should have been held at the station and then sent home.
Police decisions risked crushes and stampedes.
After a week of horror in #Belfast at the stabbing attack turned to violent riots, Northern Ireland’s other voice is being raised. Anti-racism protest underway in the city centre
From Brighton to Belfast, Glasgow and beyond, today was a reminder that the vast majority of people in this country reject hatred.
One tragedy does not define a community. One criminal does not define a race. And extremists do not define Britain.
Thousands came together to say: not in our name, not in our cities, not in our country.
The silent majority spoke today and it chose decency over division. 🇬🇧 #Brighton #Belfast #Glasgow
@TheAjakeManger So, Nigerian users made Uber make their product better? No excuse for the thieving behaviour, but the onus is always on the owner of a product to do everything possible to prevent theft.
@Molson_Hart Truth is, languages and cultures are more a spectrum than we'd like to accept. Moving from one end of a country to another, the genes, languages and cultural practices of the different communities tend to blend into each other nicely. Nationalism is just peak falsehood.
@JohnSandwich2 Then he should prove it by fighting. Really tired of boxers waiting for title fights before they fight. Give the boy any reasonable available Heavyweight let him fight. 6fights per year.
@signulll One would argue that humans first saw themselves through other humans before a mirror or the water of rivers. The human heart was already poisoned by social aggregation.
Why do people frame boxing like it constantly needs to be defended, as if the sport is some fragile thing always on the verge of collapse? Once a person is licensed and puts on the gloves they are a boxer. Of course there are different levels of skill and experience but this obsession with deciding who is a real boxer and who is not is irrelevant and misses the point entirely. Once the bell rings a fight is a fight. This sport dates back thousands of years with modern boxing nearly 160 years old since the Marquess of Queensberry Rules were established yet people still talk like it is always one bad moment away from dying.