Favour Borokini
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Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
"... Barristers and Solicitors of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, you may now put on your wigs" Gave a talk yesterday on the experiences of African law students in the UK and I feel such pride (among other emotions) watching these new wigs join the largest bar in Africa
There's a very interesting article by Penelope Pether that critiques the way literature and the humanities are magically expected to help law students (and this is an oversimplification) be good people. Does the process of acquiring a degree in these fields engender those sorts of qualities?
I think this is that thing latour talked about. Iirc, he was primarily referring to how the right has appropriated the language of scepticism, critique and deconstruction, developed by the left in service of conspiracy theories, climate denialism, war, etc.
Oh I had to take this picture of a gen at school this week. First time seeing a gen in years
Anyway, omí ti dé (water has come) reminds me of how we all used to shout iná ti dé (fire, well electricity, has come) whenever power was restored. With electricity, would come joy/life. The TV would come on, the ceiling fan would spin, we could charge all the... chargeables, iron.
Just reminds me of this interview with the Chinese spokesperson a few years ago on LBC. It's definitely what Carney was saying at the beginning of the year. Why isn't this being more clearly communicated and acknowledged by British leaders?
"They've got everything they wanted and more on top." Reading this article about the impact of Brexit on the farming and fishing industry and realising many people really thought the UK would be able to dictate the terms, despite being the weaker party 🤷🏿♀️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just found something on this! Inequality is, here, a problem without origin or beneficiary, and equality has become a governmental project promising benefits to all, not a distributive recalibration in which the shares of some will contract.
Americanah is my favourite novel by Chimamanda and it's been so long since I read it that a reread is due. I've just come across this screenshot that I find so apt and is such an underdiscussed part of migrant life: the shame of being African and the desire to become (a part of) something new
crashed physically and mentally today and feel very much like this goat
Spent most of the weekend thinking about this video, and continue to feel a growing concern at how unwittingly many African (elite) leftists continue to pursue culturally and linguistically essentialist ideas about what Africanness.
Up AI. Also Reno Omokri is such a shameless, shameless man. Mtchew.
One of my favourite videos from the past week. It's an ewì ie a Yoruba poem to àmàlà also apparently known as ọkà. It's really nice I think to see young akéwì, which I don't think translates accurately to "poet" more spoken word artist I'd say, one who cries/shouts out an ewì, a poem.
Somebody needs to write an article on the minor jurisprudence of layi wasabi. Me, maybe, someday
Been saying for the longest time that the best way to understand Kemi Badenoch is to read her as a Nigerian. I see a lot of takes here that analyse her from a "self-hating black" perspective but the most consistent/genuine thing about her is how super Nigerian she is.
It is. I think it's a good example of AI as tracer dye for detecting broken systems? The UK has tightened legal migration pathways but they then opened the GTV route which as far as I can tell is the Skilled Worker Visa minus all restrictions x.com/molarawood/s...
"conversing" with a degree of ease and dynamism to function perfectly as a tool. I think this is well illustrated by the photo here
A lot about the way this video seems utterly ignorant of the fact that this is a common body type among African women and the way it's been equated to a razz generational fad really irritates me. So much about what it means to be African is already devalued and unknown to the rest of the world 🤷🏿♀️
Not even sure how to react to this video other than to say I agree. You grow up in Nigeria, with a love-hate relationship with the country, constantly bemoaning all the ways things could be better, and you go abroad and meet people for whom Africa is the 'motherland', the land of milk and honey.
Really enjoyed watching the Eyo festival stuff this year. Not a Lagosian so I don't know the nitty gritty of the Eyo but I love the word play in the music among other things. Ẹ̀yọ̀ the masquerade and ẹ yọ́ meaning rejoice. Yoruba is very tonal so you get the well wishing sense, (ẹ) yọ̀ nínú Ẹ̀yọ̀
This reminds of this tweet I came across last weekend while searching for one of @rao2z.bsky.social's talks. But the difference between how I see Nigerians use gen AI videos is so different because we're not trying to hide that it's AI. It's an absurdist medium that people use to make jokes or
This is one of those the grass is greener on the other side things. So I got my undergraduate law degree in Nigeria and I also did the mandatory qualifying Law programme. 5 years for the first, 1 year for the second - in all, 6 years as a Nigerian law student.
