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🔔PUBLIC LECTURE INVITATION 🔔 Join us for the 4th #STIASPublicLecture of the year. STIAS Fellow, Alex Ezeh will present a lecture titled: “The future of populations in non-Western societies”. 🗓️ 15 May 2025 ⏰ 16:00 - 17:30 SAST 📍 10 Marais Road, Stellenbosch

Nothing explains Nigeria better than this. Hold people back even if they try to outrun and outperform a very broken system.

If you know this Naija Hip Hop song You should be married with 2 wives and 15 children 😁😁 Who was there when this banger dropped?!

[READ] The University of the Western Cape's (UWC) Dr Dr Zakeera Docrat made history as the first forensic linguist to testify in a sexual harassment case in SA - interpreting emojis as evidence. She described the experience before the Judicial Conduct Tribunal as “exhausting”. #IAmUWC

Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)

The future of Yorubaland looks great!🎉🔥

In case you missed it, the recording of the #STIASPublicLecture by Alex Ezeh is now available on our YouTube channel. See youtu.be/1DJzs0g2pIE?fe…

🔈BREAKING: BudgIT Nigeria Uncovers 11,122 Projects Worth N6.93 Trillion Inserted by National Assembly in 2025 FG Budget. We have combed through the 2025 FG Budget, and you will be shocked at what we found. National Assembly inserted 11,122 PROJECTS worth N6.93 TRILLION into the Budget!

Overview of main ideas at the session on how to publish at #DCM_Journal 1⃣ What does DCM publish? ✅It is a journal on Discourse Studies ✅These have to be situated & related to a context ✅And they need to focus on the mediated nature of discourse 🤔What is mediation? See ⏬

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🔔 EVENT INVITATION 🔔 Calling all #earlycareer scholars to join our #IsoLomsoFellow Paul Onanuga’s workshop on #academicwriting and #research Paul Ayodele Onanuga 🗓️ 4 and 5 June 2025 ⏰ 9am - 4pm Nigerian time 📍 Microsoft Teams Meeting ID: 354 307 671 636 1 Passcode: x9U5RQ2T

Edible Bodies? Conspicuous Consumption, Women’s Bodies and Postcolonial Masculinities in Fast-Food Advertisements in Zimbabwe Gibson Ncube provided his abstract in Shona: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

When did peaceful protest become a crime in Nigeria? Oladepo Joshua and Ejike Kelechi were arrested today for protesting against Nyesom Wike's visit to OAU campus. This is unacceptable! Great Ife stands for active Consciousness ✊️ #FreeOladepoJoshua #FreeEjikeKelechi

On May 8, Bill Gates announced to the New York Times that he planned to spend down the $200 billion in his foundation’s coffers by Dec. 31, 2045—several decades before originally intended. A month later, Gates revealed that the majority of that money will go to bolstering the

I’ve interviewed a large number of Nigerian grads under 26 over the past 2yrs, and honestly, we have a serious communication problem on our hands. This isn’t about accents. It’s about people making elementary grammatical errors and struggling to articulate their thoughts.

Do you know why that guy stayed outside with the gun and nobody suspected him or anything? We have security personnel moving around with guns without uniforms.

Free speech is not just for the people or thoughts we like or agree with; it is also for people we despise and opinions that we do not support By Sishuwa Sishuwa I believe in freedom of expression. I live or practice this belief. I believe that free speech is intended to

I am really pleased that my article on marriage in eighteenth-century West Africa has now been published. It was a labour of love! The article is Open Access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

The Journal of the African Literature Association is now fully indexed in Scopus! Great news for SANLIC researchers, you can publish in JALA at no cost under the Read & Publish deal with Taylor & Francis. Explore and submit: spr.ly/60164rnJp

Yesterday, Dorcas who is a PhD student of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria Nsukka was kidnapped inside the school premises. She left the PG hostel, Peter Odili Hall around 6am to jog, which she does regularly inside the school taking the same axis. An