Reposted by folukeifejola Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 3hBetween the British Nationality Act 1948 and the British Nationality Act 1981, UK-born citizens were part of a larger group called "Citizens of the UK and Commonwealth", & had no other distinct label, in law. Only in 1981 was "British citizenship" made a category. 1246
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4hInteresting fact, this is the post that people most often cite to me as their favourite read from my blog. 030
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 4hWhose measures of excellence are global university rankings using when a university where functioning toilets are a luxury, strikes and survival were routine, is being ranked "low quality" by people who do not know what it is needed to overcome any of those things? folukeafrica.com/global-unive...folukeafrica.comGlobal University Rankings and ToiletsYou Cannot Rank an Agbalumo Against a Peach 020
Reposted by folukeifejola Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 9hProfessor Wolfers is a professor of economics. This is obviously well-intentioned, but if the value disagreement in question is "do I have the right to exist as my self-professed identity" as opposed to "who should control the monetary supply," this immediately begins to look very silly. 191
Reposted by folukeifejola Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 7hThere's a lot of people disagreeing with this fella's stupid post, and he still hasn't changed his mind. Maybe someone should buy him a sandwich. 1102
Reposted by folukeifejola Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 8h“Is there anything about my policies that is likely to put women fleeing persecution into the hands of men who are going to rape them?” is the question that doubtless never occurs to her. And from those concerned about the safety of women and girls, crickets.theguardian.comNearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana MahmoodHome secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK 0325
Reposted by folukeifejola Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 14hThis should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1543201145
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I am always a bit uneasy when we describe our love for someone who has passed on in past tense. The love is still there even when our loved one is no longer with us. It's just that the love has nowhere to go. That's why loss hurts so much. Love is meant to be expressed in words, in actions & indeed. 04310
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 05/12/2025"All the racism" should be a valid and recognised reason for not going to work on any given day. 14410
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 31/01/2025"there are many on this planet for whom “no loss of human life, no amount of suffering, no degree of degradation [is] too much, so long as the economic interests of [present-day] colonial companies and states [are] served.”. (Hickel 2017: 99). " 04315
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A few years ago, I decided to stop doing the immigrant piety chorus. You know the one: "Without immigrants, we would not succeed at X sporting event." "immigrants make up Y% of Z sector." etc., etc. You can be a Nobel-winning brain surgeon with 1 million gold medals and an OBE. Racists DO NOT CARE. 24311
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"The last couple of years have demonstrated how international law is in many ways responsible for making the wretched of the earth rather than saving them. Those who are persecuted, in despair, abandoned, oppressed and derelict cry out in vain to international law for help. Over and over again." 04814
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I have no words to describe the inhumanity that underpis the discourse - that asylum seekers are inherently guilty. God forbid that something happens to cause you to leave home with very little notice and seek refuge. God forbid that we tackle those happenings rather than the people it happens to. 04814
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Suggesting that neither slavery nor colonialism is important to understanding our modern world demonstrates a wilful refusal to understand our current world. 15116
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Please remember that there is no such thing as an academic emergency. Take care of yourselves. 5547
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Octopus in Yoruba is apparently "Ayéfófo" or more recently "ẹja ẹlẹsẹ mẹjọ." The latter literally means the eight-legged fish. When consumed as meat, it's called "fọ́ntọ́nfọ́ntọ́n", which I personally translate as "eww! yuck! Squishy!" 16918
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 03/10/2026What if rather than celebrating who and what a structure allows in, we describe a structure by who and what is excludes? If nothing else, it would prove interesting for naming hair and beauty salons... 051
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have never been to Mendocino, but they make it feel nostalgic by painting a lyrical picture www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Cu...youtube.comTalk to Me of MendocinoYouTube video by Anna McGarrigle - Topic 021
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Takes me back: African Woman by Onyeka Onwenu sang in 4 languages. That's how we do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKz_...youtube.comOnyeka Onwenu - African Woman (Izunwanne)YouTube video by KenUbeleveit1 142
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A remix of Jolly Papa that continues to move me. I dare to not be moved www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTmZ...youtube.comIfé - Rex Lawson (Jolly Papa Cover)YouTube video by Ifé 111
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Relatively new music, but I absolutely love this sound from William Beckmann www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV7c...youtube.comWilliam Beckmann - You Only Love To Break My Heart (Official Music Video)YouTube video by WilliamBeckmannVEVO 111
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I love John Denver. "For you" is sometimes my favourite song of his www.youtube.com/watch?v=oysV...youtube.comFor YouYouTube video by John Denver - Topic 101
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I desperately need people to talk Coyote v Acme with! We need like a webinar or symposium or something. 071
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My fellow eccentrics: There are so many shamelessly evil people in the world. Be shamelessly eccentric and spread joy. You want to dance down your street? Do it. You want to talk to yourself on the bus? Go ahead. You want to wear an outfit someone described as "quirky"? Why not? Be happy. Be you. 111535
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Home is a dangerous spirit. A restless soul. I reflect on returning to Nigeria as a child, learning Africa through family, travel, music, rainstorms, protest, and resilience. This is a story about return, belonging, and the journey to finding myself. folukeafrica.com/finding-my-a...folukeafrica.comFinding My Africa, Finding Myself: The Long Lesson of HomeI found Africa in the spontaneous songs of struggle, the irrepressible spirit of survival 061
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A few thoughts on capital punishment. Does it lie within the moral authority of the state? youtube.com/shorts/ctEe5...youtube.comReflections on Capital PunishmentYouTube video by Foluke Ifejola 021
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The flip-flopping between 2 national anthems echoes being trapped in continuous colonial time. The anthem loops back and forth between visions of unity in division, belonging, freedom and what an independent nation could possibly look like. folukeafrica.com/nigeria-we-h...folukeafrica.comNigeria We Hail Thee? Old New Anthem, New Old AnthemHelp us to build a nation Where no man is oppressed, 162
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It is neither independence nor freedom; it is the un-naming of colonisation without the un-doing of colonisation 1169
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy Independence Day to Nigeria at 66. #NigeriaAt66 Though I am not sure about the independence or the happiness... or even the Nigerianess. Even the 66 is suspect. Alright... Day. 3297
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"the “celebration” of BHM in UKHE can be accurately described as a pseudo-celebration that only nods vaguely & imperceptibly at something considered nebulously to be “Black culture”. But this is not backed up by an entrenched study of African history or engagement with African-produced knowledges." 0128
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Black members of the university are shown over and over in many ways that the university is not theirs to belong to without cost. In other words, an unserious commitment to BHM reveals itself not as repair but as a deepening of that message of non-belonging." 02713
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here I argue that Black History Month (BHM) in UK higher education does little to address the racial harm facing Black students, staff, and forms of knowledge within universities. Its apathetic "celebration" reinforces the message that Black people do not fully belong within the university. 092
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My review of ROOTS considers what freedom actually means in the dust of this planet. The practice of racialised enslavement was engineered as an enduring structure to erase peoples humanity. Failure to account for that means that true freedom is always a becoming. folukeafrica.com/a-review-of-...folukeafrica.comRemembering ROOTS through the Sky, the Song, and the NameThe ROOTS remake and the things they could not take 0137
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 30/09/2026One of the things that struck me quite glaringly when I moved back to the UK nearly 20 years ago is the tendency to determine fact by public opinion. "Is it raining? Mandy from Bolton thinks it is not! Daphne from Swansea says it definitely is! Call in and tell us what you think! Is it raining?" 1133
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I liked Neagley though... 042
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On the eve of Black History Month, my #newblogpost reflects on the limits of institutional "celebration" in UK higher education. What would it mean to move towards genuine belonging, community, & transformation? What would it mean to refuse the current format of BHM? folukeafrica.com/apathetic-ce...folukeafrica.comApathetic Celebrations Can Never Repair: Refusing Black History Month in UK HEIf the University Refuses Us to Allow us to Belong, Remember We Belong to Each Other 0169
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Universities that were quick to jump on the decolonise bandwagon jumped off just as quickly after making lots of noise and very minimal substantial change to ways of doing. African History, African Studies and Black Studies programmes have been at the frontline of cuts and restructuring..." 063
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"the university is inherently constructed as a space to which people racialised Black do not really belong.... they are tolerated by and not fully accepted into the university. Their presence is constantly subject to suspicion and scrutiny." 033
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In Truth and Reconciliation, there is a reason "truth" comes before "reconciliation". 03814
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When you have lived in a dictatorship, you do tend to marvel at how illiberal the so-called liberal democracies are. 0165
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is, of course, very secondary to my beef with crime dramas where the motive for murder is academic publication royalties. Do some research, people. Or ask a librarian. They know everything. 032
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The university may be making itself irrelevant, but knowledge has always been cultivated outside it. Knowledge cultivation will continue... with or without the university. 02520
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just stay there o! 021
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ominous email: "Good Day My Good Friend. How are you? I hope you are in Good Health and Body? My office was informed that you are no longer alive, but I refused to believe that statement and decided to hear from the horse's mouth." Hunh?static.klipy.comSchitts Creek Side EyeALT: Schitts Creek Side Eye 051
Reposted by folukeifejola folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Some Monday music. "Both Sides Now" is always a must-listen for me, whatever the tempo www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgtL...youtube.comJoni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970)YouTube video by Mercury Studios 261
Reposted by folukeifejola Gonçalo Pina @alvespina.bsky.social · 01/10/2026José Mourinho, your Department Chair 08617
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I desperately need people to talk Coyote v Acme with! We need like a webinar or symposium or something. 071
Reposted by folukeifejola Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I want my daughters to grow up in a world that is safe. Women deserve to feel safe on campus. That means perpetrators must be held accountable for violating women to the fullest extent of the law. 132289270
folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My fellow eccentrics: There are so many shamelessly evil people in the world. Be shamelessly eccentric and spread joy. You want to dance down your street? Do it. You want to talk to yourself on the bus? Go ahead. You want to wear an outfit someone described as "quirky"? Why not? Be happy. Be you. 111535