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The Solution to Rebellion ❤️

[Ekpen @odoekpen]

Too often we trivialize our individuality and uniqueness because we have become too familiar with them. I am a Freckle faced beauty 😌.

#frecklednigerian #freckles #girlswithfreckles #nigerian #naturalnails #beauty #flawsome #unique #bodypositivity #selfesteem

[Olivia of Troye @OliviaTroye]

As someone who has worked on national security vetting, the Trump Admin barring Somali referee Omar Artan entry to the US for the World Cup leads to more questions than answers.
Omar was vetted, approved, and issued a visa.
Then he landed in the United States and was suddenly deemed a national security threat.
So which is it?
Either the system failed, or someone changed the rules after the fact.
That's not how serious national security decisions should be made.
The public deserves to know what changed.

[A. @Sir_tire]

No kind of poverty should make you partake in a terrorist giveaway, man. Money you know likely came from the ransom paid by families of kidnapped victims?? Haba what kind of society are we??
In fact every single one of you should be treated as a criminal.

[Andy S. 🇩🇲🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AndySTHFC]

Yeah let's give the most financially lucrative sporting event in the world to a country that hates football AND foreigners. What's the worst that could happen??

[nico 🏁 @bombdiggy__]

When it was Qatar 2022 BBC, Sky News and ITV News were doing segments for 40 days and 40 nights about human rights abuse and campaigning for alcohol to be allowed during the World Cup. But USA is refusing to allow a referee and Iran’s team in and they’ve gone quiet. Cowards

[db 🖤 @dbcxptures]

I never want to hear a single soul say ‘keep politics out of sport’ because this World Cup disaster has shown that is exactly what they are not doing. FIFA and America should be embarrassed.

[Bluu 🐝 @arwenbluu]

No entiendo cómo puede ser. Vi a Michael Jackson morir, a Maradona morir, a Pelé morir, a la reina Isabel morir; vi pasar a tres papas. Sobreviví a una pandemia, vi el comienzo de internet. Vi el CD cambiar a Spotify, vi cambiar el DVD a Netflix, vi pasar del teléfono fijo a un iPhone. Y estoy viendo el surgimiento de la IA. Y solo tengo 30 años.

[yang goi @GongR1ght]

Norway said that they are not going to play in World Cup in Qatar even if they qualified (they didn’t). Denmark left it until the last minute to confirm their participation in the World Cup 2022Germany forced their players to make political statements before the match in FIFA WC 2022 even though some players didn’t want to do it.

BBC literally disrupted the coverage of one of the best opening ceremonies of the World Cup in Qatar just for virtue signaling.

but for World Cup 2026, the whole media is silent other than a few token articles here and there and Norway and Germany aren’t protesting anything when there’s so much to protest about 🤡

[Alfie | HITC Sevens @HITCSevens]

No country should be allowed to host the World Cup while imposing discriminatory rules on qualified and participating teams.

This ought to be a very basic requirement.

[Othell Yarwyck @bigbrovar]

Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)

Just silence.

[Wamutahi @Son_of_Laikipia]

Qatar has held a World Cup where everyone who could afford to attend attended, wait till it's the USA hosting and they will have visa restrictions even on the players themselves 😂.

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

Back in the day, I had a friend from Liberia.

Her parents were upper-middle-class and lived in Monrovia.

She said they woke one day to find rebels at the doorstep of Monrovia, and there was a mad dash to the airport. She said a country had sent planes to evacuate its citizens from Liberia, but the Liberians were buying the seats on those planes to escape.

Her parents could only afford to send her; she never saw them again.

I asked, “This war didn't start in one day; why didn't you leave earlier?”

She said, “We simply heard about an attack here and there and never assumed it would come to Monrovia.”

[Abu Amir @SadiqMaunde]

📌 📌 📌

[Jola @Jollz]

Our language around governance is so interesting in Nigeria. We talk like when someone wins an election, the money and resources of the state become their personal largesse and any progress or work that happens is because they’re kind enough to “dash” us.

[ALI @Saifthesage]

This sounds really cruel until you realize a war has been happening in the north east for about two decades now and we have a refugee crisis right now in this country. I can bet you’ve partied in these two decades.

[Ekpen @odoekpen]

@nickimoraa Such a fine young man! Taking initiative at such a young age. Well done for raising him ❤️❤️

[evi. @evistarrrr]

saw this on substack & whew!

[BUNDA HASHIRA🐆🪭 @cindythehashira]

tried to shoot on the streets of lagos today and egbon adugbo is telling me @burnaboy gave them $18k (25,020,000) sometime in January and @burnaboy i need you to know you’re part of the issues we have in this country cause them no gree collect my fifteen thousand hard earned naira, later you’ll carry you mic and sing about this country.

and @jidesanwoolu are you aware that to even take pictures or videos WITH MY PHONE at Freedom park i have to pay 40,000 nigerian naira for 10mins!!? what nonsense???????! why’re you the governor if you can’t completely obliterate the atrocities happening in your state????!

CAUSE TELL ME WHY TF A YOUNG CREATIVE CANT EVEN DO SHIT IN LAGOS?? 30 seconds cover wey i wan shoot for that matter.

@jidesanwoolu gather your street boys and give them an association, or pack them to sambisa forest to fight the war against insecurity cause you’re draining the life of the people and youths in this country, we NO LONGER HAVE ANY FREEDOM! and one day when i see you i’ll speak my mind.

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

The Kingdom of Benin was casting brass sculptures using the lost-wax technique before the 13th century.

In 1897, British soldiers raided Benin City and took thousands of them. When the sculptures reached Europe, many refused to believe Africans had made them. They credited the Portuguese. They credited ancient Egypt.

Felix von Luschan, curator at Berlin’s Ethnological Museum, later wrote that the works stood among the highest heights of European casting. He meant it as a compliment. He did not realize it was a confession.

Most of those sculptures are still in European museums today.

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

The Ashanti people of Ghana built furniture so significant it started a war. Their stools were not just common stools. Each one was carved from a single piece of wood, shaped to reflect the owner’s identity, status and soul. The Golden Stool was considered so sacred that when the British Governor demanded to sit on it in 1900, the Ashanti took up arms rather than allow it.

Today, Ghana imports plastic chairs from China.

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

The writer of this book died in a car bomb. Think about that !!