Walé Azeez

Medium-agnostic journalist: editing, writing, production - @Politico @WSJ @ComputerWeekly @BBC @Bloomberg @SkyNews @Euronews @CNN @Aljazeera @TRTWorld 🧑🏽‍💻

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Spearhead_Af Bullshit. You give zero insight into how the EU and other entities prevent Africa from trading with itself TODAY as if African states have no agency at all.
It's frankly embarrassing harking back to the 1800s, blaming colonialism for today's pan-African trade failures. Do better!

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

The media has us believing that Reform took over the country.

But the reality is this. How embarrassing

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Sroneous @EaracheEye @ChrisMurphyCT Oh! “assisting its ally” was it..? Let’s all go home after that killer assessment!
How ridiculous do you sound?

Since when did “I was only helping out a mate” absolve you from being an accessory to the illegal removal of a sovereign leader? Venezuela - a walk in the park eh?

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@newstart_2024 @Glinner If you can decouple intellectual disagreement from the possibility of physical violence as a consequence of that intellectual disagreement, then be my guest.

I’d be all for “physical safe spaces” that don’t preclude the possibility expressing or grappling with different views.

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Bhaveshlivelife @Beno10_MFC If you look closely, you'll see that the bowl on D is set more deeply into the base of the mixer than the rest..!

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Beno10_MFC D!

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@susan_bagheri @implausibleblog More to the point, it wasn’t meant to be legally binding, was it..?

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@legallois @implausibleblog And that’s exactly how the politicians of the land want it…

What? You think they want critical thinking to suddenly break out all over the place..?

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@RGSimmons67 @implausibleblog Shhh…they won’t admit it, but this is how the political class like it.

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx What sorts of changes have you been seeing, P?

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx What does “colonial mentality”even mean? Why do Nigerians accept less than bare minimum from successive governments? Never demand accountability? Do little to change their nation’s circumstances? What’s colonialism to do with blaming evil spirits & voting for the highest briber?

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx Wy, thank you - you're no neophyte either...

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx But not rejected out of hand by their recipients either…

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx You make a great sparring partner…😎

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx I wasn’t actually asking for religion’s “removal”… merely for acknowledgement of its failings and the over reliance on it to paper over the cracks of societal inadequacy…It doesn’t get a pass because of proximity to some deity or other…

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx Aha! Agreement on something at long last…

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx I think you might be, P…

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx It’s far too ingrained in our societies to be “removed”. And are we talking about ALL religions or just the imported ones..? They all stifle human potential and responsibility for our own lives and actions.

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx But that’s a pointless exercise, in my very humble opinion…

[Walé Azeez @waleazeez]

@Xxan_dixx Look, I’ll be the first to admit that religion has occasionally delivered some good: refuge and ready-made community; speaking truth to power (although less so these neoliberal days). But I wouldn’t go as far as to say these byproducts exonerate it from the ills it perpetrates.