F.A.Akinwale

Anthropology. Colonial history. Folklore. Literature. Linguistics. Music before digital beats. Language, of course.
@SecretStoriesNG

[F.A.Akinwale @fadojuAA]

At this time when barbers and barbershops are terribly missed, here, I wrote a short coming-of-age memoir about my visits to the barbershop and about haircuts on @brittlepaper

https://t.co/f82K4q9hr6

[austen el-osta @austenelosta]

Excited to celebrate the launch of the @NIHRresearch funded national workplace health & wellbeing initiatives that are free at the point of use (WHISPAs) programme.
£3.7m, 21 strong + 5 years & implementation science focus.
👉 https://t.co/lPqSRVQlmH

[Adenike Lanlehin @omotomilola]

THIS is how we talk !!! The dialogue ! I say it to my loved ones that, the dialogue in a lot of our movies these days are just ….. not natural to us. We don’t talk like that, we don’t wait for you to finish, we don’t pick our words like beans.
Like this, this is us ! 🤣🤣

[Gbénró Adégbolá ن @GbenroAdegbola]

It was Children’s Harvest in church today. One word kept coming up in readings and hymns: Àlìkámà (wheat).

I’ve known the word all my life, but always wondered about it. It always sounded strange to me.

Turns out, its origin is not Yoruba at all.

[deji toye @dejitoye]

@JollyPaps1 Many critics drink the full draught of western cinema and forget the primary assignment is to interprete our cinema for the world--the cultural wellspring from which it emerged, the sociology and economics of its practice. That will entail affirming it's autonomy, of course.

[Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1]

Accusing Nollywood of didactism is like accusing Blaxploitation cinema of black power rhetoric. That is the whole point. The basis. Ground zero

[austen el-osta @austenelosta]

When the heat is on, how do you cope? @ImperialSCARU is launching the #HEATWAVE study to explore how people prepare for, cope with & care for themselves during extreme heat. The study will collect data from 10 countries. @Imperial_PCPH. Link to UK survey here👇
https://t.co/7CY33Spchn

[austen el-osta @austenelosta]

Can neighbourhood #SocialCapital compensate when personal social networks are weak, or does it work best when other relationships are already strong? Looking at data from 124K adults in England, we found evidence for both.
Our findings underpin our proposed Social Resource Ecology of Loneliness: the idea that social resources may substitute for, reinforce or operate independently of one another. #Loneliness #SocialCapital #PublicHealth #SocialConnection @ImperialSCARU @LonelinessStudy @fadojuAA @WaseemJerjes @Imperial_PCPH @ImperialSPH
https://t.co/lNXNWx4LXG

[Yemi King @TheYemiKing]

I contributed a few words about the life, times and legacy of Taiwo Hassan (Ogogo)

https://t.co/9A0ORLkJsQ

[Molara Wood @molarawood]

How beautiful is this unhurried chant riffed in unrehearsed praise of a junior colleague, who's humbled by the honour and the grace? This is poetry, this is Rap. As a Yoruba expression of pure love and adoration, it doesn't get any better than this.

[Yinka Ogunnubi @yinkanubi]

Maybe if your country had left the land of the Adebayo's or Babatunde's alone and not colonized them for the benefit of your defunct Empire, not to mention the many years of slave trade to provide free labour for your plantations, there would have been no need to post this.

[deji toye @dejitoye]

@nwoko_greg62705 Before returning to settle in Lagos, Campbell had initially accompanied Dr. Martin Delany to Abeokuta for a land grant for black American repatriation. Delany didn't return, being sidetracked by the US Civil War. Campbell returned to some wild adventures.

https://t.co/r4efSdO5AP

[Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde]

Can you guys remember that Yoruba phrase? “A ti rin ri borough.”

Could it be Borough market in London?

[Sodiq Alabi @OneSodiqAlabii]

I'm surprised by this thread. Nigerian butchers are very efficient despite lack of modern tools. The way they get meat off intricate bone system is impressive. Nothing is wasted. There's no cut of beef they can't get for you if you show them what you want.

[OTOME💪 @TomeofTomeKoko]

If Nigerians don’t eat meat in these cuts, why on earth should our butchers cut beef like this? Shouldn’t their skill be based on what is demanded culturally? Why do y’all keep making what’s cultural to others the standard for Nigerian skilled workers??

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[deji toye @dejitoye]

"You're trespassing on my private property."
"But you, too, are 'trespassing' on the public road!"

[Gbénró Adégbolá ن @GbenroAdegbola]

Breaking up is not a silver bullet. It will only unearth new, existential challenges that have laid dormant and those we had not thought of.

That’s why a restructured, more balanced federation is the way to go, even if it has its own booby traps.

[Penfold @remiopakunle]

1. Instead of fighting some mythical supremacy battles (as some Nationalists are doing) or trying to twist it into a political issue (as I see some of my friends here doing), the real issue to face is the aberration that makes a Governor the consenting authority for a Kabiyesi

[deji toye @dejitoye]

Ekiti, centre of the film's story, produced some of the most globally renowned Yoruba carvers; some already born during the war in focus. Their works could provide a guide to the decorative art of the period.

Pics 1&2: Dada Areogun (1880-1954)
Pics 3&4: Olowe of Ise (1873-1938)

[Moe @Mochievous]

Our government does not protect or defend its citizens as a class. Nigeria is not a small-player by any measure in the world yet we are treated so disrespectfully as a class because these people aren’t doing their jobs. Nigeria has a ton of soft power that is just wasting.