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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And the engineers are leading the conversation on ethics and philosophy 🫠

Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Actually quite pleased to see this and generally agree with the spoiled assessment. It's of course part of why people in the Global South are super receptive towards AI - we don't have functional public services. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You're welcome! There's also this report on general trends in Africa showing the majority of funded startups to be fintechs by Disrupt Africa disruptafrica.gumroad.com/l/kjrnr

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sigh. Not this American guy (almost) single-handedly carrying Nigerian tourism on his back 😭 Props to him abeg because... before now my own is not more than to discourage non-Nigerians from travelling to Nigeria especially *alone* www.instagram.com/reel/DdO2quf...

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Stumbled on this map which shows what percentage of the population of each country is a child. I've known the median age in Nigeria and Africa to be between 17-19 for years but seeing it visualised like this is something different.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Managed to get a Yoruba woman from Lagos. What are the odds? Extremely unlikely she'd have ever walked to Cameroon though. Badagry is on the border between Nigeria and Benin Republic, so that would be more likely. They literally speak Yoruba there too. Dahomey was part of the Oyo empire

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Stumbled onto criticism of RF Kuang and a few of the comments by Chinese people perfectly describe my feelings reading the writing of a particular Nigerian-American author's "Nigerian-inspired" fantasy series. And it's not only that author. www.reddit.com/r/books/s/pD...

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Global North pathologies towards AI have been weirdly racist is very telling. Apparently we only love AI because we're scammers with little industry. 🌚 Anyway if anyone is interested in a video that gently ribs AI fascination among older people in Nigeria www.instagram.com/reel/DbVGMwj...

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Stumbled onto a conversation on LinkedIn that's made me realise why I struggle with small talk in the UK. It's because while both Nigerians and British people like small talk, both groups have very, very different definitions of what qualifies as small talk.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Schrodinger's immigrant: taking all the jobs, while also not doing anything and leeching off the state. "where did you learn to speak English so well?" but also "we can't understand their accents" 🤷🏿‍♀️

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This video says everything I want to say about the material and immaterial culture in postcolonial contexts. There's so much of us that is good and has prevailed: our agency, our world-building, the resilience of our cultures, even in the things we say are colonial in origin

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I mean we do say, "Thank you Jesus" but I don't I've ever heard, "Let's thank Jesus" or "Thank Jesus" as a directive. It's giving

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today on a critique of West African institutions and our useless elite. Don't know if I quite agree with the framing that within the West African context, the aspiration is whiteness or proximity to whiteness, rather than the West as a whole though www.instagram.com/reel/DbgXXFZ...?

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Two different southern Nigerian accents. Lol there's a point where it no longer feels right to say a Nigerian accent sounds this or sounds that due to class and ethnic animosity issues. And I think regardless of state of origin and ethnicity, more and more Nigerians sound alike

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is an Edo State accent. Edo State used to be Bendel State along with Delta State and under the Old Western region along with the largely Yoruba South West, but I think they identify as South-Southerners these days. The Delta accent is also different from the Benin/Edo one too

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is a southern Nigerian accent from what I'm pretty sure is the South East (the one above sounded like a Yoruba speaker so, South West). Again it has to do with the cadence of the words and how they lilt. Nigeria has many accents but not all accents are Nigerian, certainly not East or

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is a contemporary (southern) Nigerian accent by the way.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"... 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

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

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?

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

And this is what he thought should be done

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

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.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Toor, what to do now? Make person no go craze 🤲🏿

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Oh I had to take this picture of a gen at school this week. First time seeing a gen in years

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

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.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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?

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"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...

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Wahala for who dey receive instruction 😩😩

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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.

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. Yet, non-subordinates do get contacted in another guise: as the unmarked universal class comprising equality’s political audience. Contemporary equality governance aligns the credibility, legitimacy and future of its agenda with touching this broader, proto-sceptical public. As a result, various venues, spaces, arenas and relays get utilised—from the Conservative press to ventures such as the EHRC’s summer camp for youth “champions”Footnote14—to render amenable, over a temporally extended “now”, public opinion’s easily worked-up surface.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

crashed physically and mentally today and feel very much like this goat

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

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.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Up AI. Also Reno Omokri is such a shameless, shameless man. Mtchew.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Somebody needs to write an article on the minor jurisprudence of layi wasabi. Me, maybe, someday

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

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...

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

"conversing" with a degree of ease and dynamism to function perfectly as a tool. I think this is well illustrated by the photo here

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

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 🤷🏿‍♀️

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Biblically accurate Herod and Herod's soldiers

A poem by Charles Causley

Innocent's Song
Who's that knocking on the window,
Who's that standing at the door,
What are all those presents
Lying on the kitchen floor?

Who is the smiling stranger
With hair as white as gin,
What is he doing with the children
And who could have let him in?

Why has he rubies on his fingers,
A cold, cold crown on his head,
Why, when he caws his carol,
Does the salty snow run red?

Why does he ferry my fireside
As a spider on a thread
His fingers made of fuses

Why does he ferry my fireside As a spider on a thread,
His fingers made of fuses
And his tongue of gingerbread? Why does the world before him Melt in a million suns,
Why do his yellow, yearning eyes Burn like saffron buns?
Watch where he comes walking Out of the Christmas flame, Dancing, double-talki ng:
Herod is his name.

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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

A clear-eyed understanding of the strengths and limitations of a techn is a step towards advancing it. Blind cheerleading or unalloyed cynicism, in contrast, are just steps towards advancing your influencer career..

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Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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.

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