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Deby

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Independent Black Language Researcher | 2X Published Essayist - Mother, Teach Me + Home Is A Language | Convener of the Convention of Afrikan People 2026 in The Gambia Read me: farafinna.wordpress.com

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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 8h
Why do Bajans say “he cute”? Absence of the copula be. In African languages like Wolof, the verb “to be” doesn’t necessarily exist and can be contained in the pronoun. Dafa rafet = he/she cute
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 8h
Wolof in Bajan #Africanism #Africanisms #Barbados #Bajan #Creole #Wolof #Senegal #TheGambia #BlackSky #BlackAtlantic #AfricanDiaspora #AfricanRetention #AncestralMemory
Title; Wolof in Bajan
Background; flowered street in Gorée
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Yes. I remember reading that some Native Americans hired to work in a factory had a hard time respecting the bell / capitalist time because they originally base it off of tides. How beautiful is that?
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
she isn't wrong ahah
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
And he called Guinea and Senegalese people french.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
*Bijilo
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
We're running on a treadmill thinking we're moving forward. Can't never progress with another people's language. That's what I said in the video in Bamanankan
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
"We don't encourage the use of African languages" "African languages are against the regulation" "I've been to 4 continents and I don't see history as beneficial to us" Some things I heard after visiting a new school in Kololi. Yeah.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
BALLY BAGAYOKO AND ZOHRAN KWAME MAMDANI >>>>>>>>>>
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
*ne
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Ni y'a siyɛn fɔlɔ ɲɛ ka ja ta Bamanankan na. Aye tɛgɛrɛ fɔ. 1st time recording me in Bamanankan. Clap for me.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Muna an tɛ Farafinkanw fɔ kalankɛyɔrɔ la? - Why don't we speak African languages in school? #Bamanankan #Mali #TheGambia #Senegal #Mandinka #Wolof #AfricanLanguages
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Ngl K-1/kickboxing low-key easier than pilates
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Anyway, admire my artistic choice in the photo. A broken watch to signify the African's relentless struggle to free ourselves from the entrapment of western time *snap fingers*. Ugh, my brain 😂😂
Title - 1 January: Time is a suggestion

Photo of a broken watch screen on a wrist
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
1 January: Time is a suggestion #PublicationDay #BlackWriters #AfricanWriters #BookSky #Sahel #AfricanTime #CPTime #BlackPeopleTime #IslandTime #CaribbeanTime #Resistance #Takamba farafinna.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/1...
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1 January: Time is a suggestion
I’m savin souls and y’all complainin bout my lateness – Lauryn Hill Ten years ago, I worked as interpreter and translator for asylum seekers and refugees hailing from Mali, Côte d…
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Having submitted so many pieces to magazines and journals with their strict guidelines for such a long time and basically abandoned my blog for longer, I forget that I can Steve Biko on Wordpress
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
N ka kan ka sun. I have to fast.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
It would sit quietly and let the plan go on as designed. It's not working anymore so it has to show who's "boss". It's not the end for us. It's the end for them. #RadicalHope #RadicalOptimism
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
This is scary af but I want to also see the silver lining. The empire IS falling. Why do I believe this? Because it's putting tremendous effort to show how strong and influential it is. If it was and was confident that we knew, it wouldn't have to show its teeth
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Hééé Brasile. Please, please don't do this
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Why do Haitians say “ak”? Retention of Wolof. In both languages ak means “and” or “with”. It is one of the rare occasions where a continental African word is also retained in form and not only in meaning and utilisation
Why do Haitians say “ak”?

Retention of Wolof. In both languages ak means “and” or “with”. It is one of the rare occasions where a continental African word is also retained in form and not only in meaning and utilisation
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Wolof in Kreyòl Ayisyen #Africanism #Africanisms #Haiti #Ayiti #Creole #WOlof #Senegal #TheGambia #BlackSky #BlackAtlantic #AfricanDiaspora #AfricanRetention #AncestralMemory
Title: Wolof in Kreyòl Ayisyen
Background: Street on Gorée Island, Dakar, Senegal
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
New article out: WE WILL LIVE farafinna.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/w... #PublicationDay #ClimateResilience #BlackWriters #AfricanWriters #BookSky #Sahel #BurkinaFaso #ElNiño #Capitalism #RadicalHope #RadicalOptimism #Resistance #Belief
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We will live
“If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it.” This is Yacouba Sawadogo, the man who stopped th…
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Ne: N bɛ fɛ ka n'farikolo ɲɛnajɛ ka taa bori la San:
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
New article out: Some African names for you and your descendants #Africanism #Africanisms #Bamana #Wolof #Maninka #Mandinka #Fulbe #AncestralMemory #AfricanNames #NamingCeremony farafinna.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/s...
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Some African names for you and your descendants
I spend a lot of time talking about names: government names, nicknames or basket names. Today, I want to shed light on some of the beautiful Fulɓe, Maninka, Mandinka and Bamana names we have. As yo…
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Ne is both I and my in Bamanankan. Ne bɛ yan = I am here. Ne tɔgɔ = my name (I name)
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
African americans do the same for they/their and, as taught by Dr. G., forms like “he book” and “she house” used to exist in the early formations of Ebonics.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Why do Trinis say “we staff”? Retention of Bamanankan. In it, subject pronouns (I, you, she) can be used as possessive adjectives (my, your, her).
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Bamanankan in Trinidadian Creole #Africanism #Africanisms #Bamanankan #Trini #TrinidadianCreole #Trinidad #BlackSky #BlackAtlantic #AfricanDiaspora #AfricanRetention #AncestralMemory
Title: Bamanankan in Trinidadian Creole
Background: statues of two caricatured people somewhere in Bamako, Mali
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Thank you 🥺💕
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Listen. That's a warning, okay? 😂
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Africanisms in gestures #Africanism #Africanisms #Wolof #Ebonics #BlackAmericans #AfricanAmericans #BlackSky #BlackAtlantic #AfricanDiaspora
Title says "Africanisms in gestures". The backgound picture is an image of a building (museum) on Gorée Island, Ndakaaru, Senegal
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Is there anything more beautiful than the moon?
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
"A.A.A. Aliens. Atlanteans. Artificial intelligence. Or how those who steal can't believe we create" I needed to get this off my chest and vent. #PublicationDay #Plagiarism #BlackWriters #AfricanWriters #BookSky #BlackExcellence #BlackBrilliance #AI farafinna.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/a...
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A.A.A. Aliens. Atlanteans. Artificial intelligence. Or how those who steal can’t believe we create
Here we go again. Black Brilliance is being, once again, dissected, investigated and punished (oop, I may be flagged as using a.i. because of this rule of 3). We’re currently living through a…
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Venus Kii Thomas @goddexxvenuskii.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you're awake and can see this, please circulate to help Natou escape a violent man who just assaulted her. She needs a hotel room immediately. If you have funds, send to any of the platforms in her Linktree. linktr.ee/tichatnwa
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Linktree. Make your link do more.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
Lol anytime I say something about wp, IG asks me to verify my identity. It happened when I posted Painter's "The history of WP" and now that I posted this blog
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
"A.A.A. Aliens. Atlanteans. Artificial intelligence. Or how those who steal can't believe we create" I needed to get this off my chest and vent. #PublicationDay #Plagiarism #BlackWriters #AfricanWriters #BookSky #BlackExcellence #BlackBrilliance #AI farafinna.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/a...
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A.A.A. Aliens. Atlanteans. Artificial intelligence. Or how those who steal can’t believe we create
Here we go again. Black Brilliance is being, once again, dissected, investigated and punished (oop, I may be flagged as using a.i. because of this rule of 3). We’re currently living through a…
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Oh come on 😳 These people are like cockroaches
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Deleted the post because I don't want to feed into the media avalanche against the author
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We've known what a.i. would be used for. To accuse us of using it and plagiarism. Random accounts on blogs or socials accuse Black authors and academics of stealing because they can't accept real A.I., i.e. African Intelligence.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
All authors should then have their work "analysed" by a.i. then. Besides, why don't we still understand that we don't write like a.i. a.i. writes like us.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
My money is on Apartheid Clyde. Same as in South Africa, he wants to create xenophobic instability in the country. If it's not him, any other coloniser tbh.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Retention of Wolof. The Wolof word for “understand” or “hear” is degg. Degg nga? = You dig? #AfricanDiaspora #BlackAtlantic #BlackPanther
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Why do African americans say "dig"?
Picture of a yellow and blue boat on a beach in The Gambia. The background shows palm tree and a blue sky with a few clouds. Title says: Wolof in Ebonics: 2
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
New article out: WE WILL LIVE farafinna.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/w... #PublicationDay #ClimateResilience #BlackWriters #AfricanWriters #BookSky #Sahel #BurkinaFaso #ElNiño #Capitalism #RadicalHope #RadicalOptimism #Resistance #Belief
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We will live
“If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it.” This is Yacouba Sawadogo, the man who stopped th…
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Quittons cette Europe qui n'en finit pas de parler de l'homme tout en le massacrant partout ou elle le rencontre, à tous les coins de ses propres rues, à tous les coins du monde - Frantz Fanon
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
"Leave europe/the west then" Tell europe/the west to leave us, too.
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Deby @farafinmuso.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
Bona, mi sono sfogata. Tanto en vrai de vrai, sappiamo già
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