Big Chief, I do agree with him and I did say so prior to the event! My time in a UK establishment work force makes me realise I do not know enough about governance in Africa, neither do the average men or women of British descent, and they don’t care either!

Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America. -Langston Hughes

Inefficiency in Nigeria is a feature and not a bug. It is deliberately orchestrated to enable a few people to remain relevant. If things work as they should, many will be empowered and gatekeepers will be powerless. This has been the fight all of my adult life.

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

They are really trying to say there is racial discrimination for diverse VCs that target POC…this in an industry where 2% of funding goes to POC The precedent and slippery slope we are on is terrifying I have so many emotions so will process it first reuters.com/legal/conserva…

Same guy who led the legal fight against US Affirmative action is now suing a PRIVATELY OWNED VC firm founded by 3 Black women over a grant competition where only Black women are eligible. Please check in with all the tech leaders who said the AA case was purely about merit.

Warning Maui Fire Victims: As a victim of Katrina, we saw the criminality begin at this point of the disaster. 1) Insurance companies will abandon you after years of paying premiums. 2) If insurance companies do pay out they will collude with banks and pay off your loan, not you.

Just can’t fathom what her mother must be going through.

Interesting…

I know it seems unrelated but this is one of the key reasons I don’t advocate for scrapping NYSC entirely. When I was at camp I witnessed young Nigerians learn about different cultures in real time. It blew my mind how little Nigerians actually outside their home states.

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Literal perfection ✨

There is absolutely no reason that “spring forward” shouldn’t happen on a Monday at 4pm.

My friend is out here doing the damn thing 🙌🏾

My latest for Teen Vogue explores the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it was tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars

I put these two clips of Daddy together because I want to share him saying “I’m tired of marching,” then, after continuing the multifaceted work of nonviolence, saying “I’ve been to the mountaintop.” The 2nd clip is from the speech he gave the night before he was assassinated.

My opinion about this issue of book piracy in Nigeria is that it is not just about books. Nigerians is a poor, low trust society where people will steal anything you let them steal. Books. Oil. Husbands. Wives. Elections. This is a place where morality and ethics are mere

Tangential: but this is why I chuckle when I see Nigerians wax poetic about not knowing they were black till they came to the west. It’s just not true