Your nationality is a colonial tag devoid of any philosophical meaning. You didn’t even create it. 😩

RT @whoistimiturner:

Sigh. Read the works of David Miller- a political philosopher: for a state to function, citizens need a shared sense of obligation. If nationality is just an administrative boundary, people have less incentive to make sacrifices for their fellow citizens. That’s your Nigeria!

Erdogan did not begin as an authoritarian leader. His early years was associated with democratic reforms, and “democratic values” His later transformation toward increasingly centralised and authoritarian rule was gradual, particularly after 2011 and especially following the 2016 coup attempt. For a period, they even celebrated him internationally as an example of a new kind of Muslim democratic leader. But as the years went by, power became increasingly concentrated around Erdogan. I witnessed the new Erdogan in 2017 He took his nationalism beyond Turkey. By the time Turkey held its 2017 constitutional referendum, power was getting centralized in the country In 2017, he needed support for a constitutional referendum that would dramatically expand the powers of the presidency. He took his campaigns to Europe. Germany alone had approximately 2.8 million people with Turkish roots in 2017. His target was Germany and the Netherlands with people with dual citizenship He sought to mobilise the Turkish diaspora as part of the local struggle but both Germany and Netherlands objected to referendum rallies by the Turkish government There was this Minister of Erdogan who snuck into Netherlands by force. Fatma Betül, she used car to sneak into Rotterdam and was escorted out it the country. It provoked Turkish-Dutch nationals. They came out in large numbers with the Turkish flag about 2000 large They clashed with police. There was smoke everywhere. I was visiting NL at the time Erdogan had changed his message from “Turkey can become part of Europe” to “Turkey is strong enough to challenge Europe. Crazy times then Turkey is a threat that people should not ignore.

Touch grass.

An ode to Marilyn.... #DuchessOfEtiOsa ❤️ #BN20

This is how I feel about setup accounts and other accounts dedicated to hating on Ayra Starr. It’s not normal to harbor that level of hatred for someone you’ve never met and may never meet. Take a break and ask yourself this question: “What am I even doing?”

they also said she looks a biracial girl

In my experience, Black women who wear their natural hair tend to gravitate towards each other naturally, because it usually signals having similar hobbies or interests. These weird fairytales Black women keep making up about natural-haired women make no sense.

If a nation is founded on ethnic lines, it will inevitably be govern by them. Until you construct a strong, inclusive civic nationalism, political support will always be driven by identity rather than ideology. Citizens will naturally default to ethnic loyalties for survival.

Yoruba subgroups in pre-colonial era might have been politically fragmented, much like Ancient Greece- but they already had a deep self-conscious unity through language, religion & ancestral origin. Colonialism merely named the identity, it didn’t create it. Speak for your tribe.

How is identifying as Yoruba first tribalism or do you dolts just have an issue with a Yoruba person exuding their cultural pride & consciousness? In the absence of a unified civic identity, your ethno-cultural heritage is the foundational anchor of your “Nigerianness”.

So people can say they are proudly Igbo & you’ll praise them as evidenced by your old tweets, but when someone says they’re Yoruba first, it is tribalism. You are consumed by hypocrisy & your disdain for Yoruba consciousness is veiled with the false sense of civic nationalism.

Colonial borders didn’t create indigenous Africans, they divided us. Our native ties to the land existed prior to colonialism! Our distinct societies had clear concepts of first occupancy, ancestral homelands, lineage roots & sacred geography. Our indigeneity is pre-colonial!

The second you were born, you came in contact with your ethnocultural values, norms, food etc; your Yoruba culture is your epistemological access to the world. Nigeria & Africa are bureaucratic containers we adopted to project nationality & continentality onto the world stage.

No, the coup plotters didn’t plan to install Awolowo. The coup was planned to advance Igbo interests & flip the political order. According to David Ejoor, the Governor of the Mid West, in his book “Reminiscences, he claimed the Igbo elites had flirted with a coup idea since 1964.