Mr Bello

Storyteller @StartArchiving | words @AJenglish, @Inkstickmedia, @MoreBranches, @Ijnet | [email protected]

[Mr Bello @mobwords]

How do you keep people together when everything around them is falling apart? During the Nigerian Civil War, the answer for many was Radio. For @StartArchiving, I write about Radio Biafra: how it was born in crisis and powered by improvision.

https://t.co/EDGRSO8sns

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

The gate fee for running for political office in Nigeria has climbed dramatically over the years. And nowhere is that more visible than in the race for the presidency.

To understand how we got here, we have to go back to 1993.

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

Every first Monday of the month, we'll share some of the most interesting ads in the archive, from as far back as the 1960s, that convinced your grandparents to buy things and form long-lasting habits.

This month, we revisit ads that convinced your grandparents to buy smoke.

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

The first video on The Archivist drops this weekend.

Subscribe now.

https://t.co/FZCkDPk7BF

[Mr Bello @mobwords]

@eseoghosae Congratulations

[Mr Bello @mobwords]

@adedayoagarau ✌️

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The cost of avoiding structure is that every day has to be renegotiated from scratch.

[fati money. @mystique_fati]

new personal essay just dropped.
https://t.co/EkvBrAA3Y4

[Mr Bello @mobwords]

In my latest for @StartArchiving, I wrote about three Nigerians, in three different years, in three different places, who met a Nigerian policeman and never made it home.

https://t.co/u5TG6FW6vD

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

Every first Monday of the month, we will share some of the most interesting ads in the archive, from as far back as the 1960s, that convinced your grandparents to buy things and form long-lasting habits.

Today, we start with the ads that convinced your grandparents to drink beer.

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

When you meet a Nigerian policeman—on your way to get food, on your way home to family—you don’t expect it to be the end of your life. But sometimes, it is.

That's the story of Dele (1981), Ede (1989), and Nnamdi (2002).

Read about the lives they lived.
https://t.co/0eUD9dVFms

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

When a police brutality incident happens, the life, the plans, the people at the heart of it become background to a systemic problem of state violence, reduced to yet another case.

But there’s usually more. Someone going through an ordinary day, living a life full of plans.

[Mr Bello @mobwords]

In my latest for @StartArchiving, I wrote about three Nigerians, in three different years, in three different places, who met a Nigerian policeman and never made it home.

https://t.co/u5TG6FW6vD

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

Ede Nwigwe was so talented he was compared to European composers like Handel and Mozart. But in 1989, as Nigerians protested against the Ibrahim Babangida regime and the police cracked down violently, he disappeared into a police cell and was never seen alive again.

We revisited the story of Ede's life, and mysterious death: https://t.co/Qg7kMQsdsK

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

On a Saturday like this, in June 2002, police officers shot Morakinyo Akerele and Nnamdi Ekwuyasi multiple times at a checkpoint in Ikoyi, Lagos.

They were rushed to a hospital, but doctors refused to treat them without a police report. Both students died, becoming the sixth and seventh victims of police shootings in just two months.

24 years later, we spoke to Nnamdi’s family about how he ended up at that checkpoint, and what his loss has meant to those who love him.

[archivi.ng @StartArchiving]

In the early 2000s, Nnamdi Ekwuyasi was a teenager beginning to figure out his life, fascinated by computers and dreaming of studying in America. On June 22, 2002, he was minutes from his home when policemen stopped him.

Read Nnamdi's story.

https://t.co/0eUD9dVFms

[Temitayo O. Esq @Tbabz__]

In case you think she’s lying💀

[𐌕 @fwtimini]

I live in constant fear of being asked to share a fun fact about myself.

[Afolabi @adekaiyaoja]

Is the PDP dead?

Yes - At least in its current form.

Unpack this and more in this week’s Bellwether article.

https://t.co/V1JVDXyqEF

[Afolabi @adekaiyaoja]

Hi 👋

Last week, some friends and I launched a Substack focusing on socio-political commentary and analysis that informs those curious about Nigerian politics and policy.

Our intro: https://t.co/dnlqq9xfn0