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10 months

Wrote my first cover story for @TeenVogue (!!!!!!) where I speak to @vict0ny on weathering tragedy, being saved by music, the complexities of unbridled self-expression and where his head is currently at.

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6 months

Unpopular opinion but I think Chloe x Halle split too soon. They were really coming into their own with their second album and would have done wonders if they had released a third.

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No two people on earth can ever create the atmosphere and aura these to connected spirits did that day. Like demons were casted to HELL….

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2 years

Nah this fit is insane!

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2 years

Nahhhh Tiwa Savage is an insanely good artist.

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2 months

I am getting strong indie/folk rock vibes here. Quite the pivot.

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@the49thstreet

2 months

New Wizkid sounding like Afrobeats or not?

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2 years

dead 😂😂😂

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2 years

And today, this happened.

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2 years

Today is my first day as a Communications Manager at ⁦ @TonyElumeluFDN ⁩. Really excited about this new journey.

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1 year

Nigerians were STRESSED!

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2 years

A Nigerian artist could murder someone in broad daylight and Nigerians will unlook as long as the music slaps.

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3 years

hmm

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@PulseNigeria247

3 years

Brisk Capital says as long as CEO Joshua is in police custody, investors should forget about repayments

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2 years

You know what my father did when my mother started a hugely successful kerosene business? He got jealous and burnt her shop then destroyed her wares. But sure, patriarchy protects women.

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1 year

We were all convinced Simi and Falz were dating. That’s how good their collab was.

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2 years

If Lugard had died in this age, Nigerians would still defend him and ask that people be respectful towards his passing.

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2 years

me getting ready to download the 13th Nigerian fintech app that promises to make USD payment easy

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2 years

Please stop commodifying the death of young Nigerians. Young people getting killed by their government for protesting police brutality is not a cute little trend you can just slap on your brand. It would be ridiculous and inappropriate to make a George Floyd candle collection.

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4 years

Guys!!!!!!!!! I have a piece in The New York Times. Before I go and die briefly, I’d love for y’all to read this and share your thoughts.

Opinion | I’m a Queer Nigerian. It’s Hard to Find a Church Community. (Published 2020)

Nontraditional Nigerian churches are safe spaces for young Christians — if they aren’t L.G.B.T.Q.

www.nytimes.com

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@nelsoncj3

4 years

I spoke to some of the witnesses at the #LekkitollgateMassacre about their experiences and wrote about it for @VICE . These stories are a reminder of why we should not stop fighting.

Witnesses of the Military Shooting in Nigeria Tell Us What They Saw

According to Amnesty International, 38 people were killed on Tuesday night during an anti-police protest in the Nigerian city.

www.vice.com

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11 months

For @RollingStone I spent a humid Sunday morning eating Amala at Nok with @asakemusik . In this piece, we talked about his journey so far, fuji, spirituality, learning from past mistakes, staying grounded, his new album, and his love for fashion.

Asake on Success, Spirituality, and Searching for Peace Amid the Chaos

The Afrobeats sensation worked hard to get to where he is today. Now, he's trying to stay spiritually grounded.

www.rollingstone.com

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@nelsoncj3

2 years

Kind of rude to look this perfect

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2 years

Linda Ikeji essentially created the template for the invasive and insensitive micro-journalism blogs like Instablog and Gistlover practice. No respect for the safety of the subject, no regard for facts, just sensationalism and an appetite for ruining people’s lives.

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2 years

Not me becoming a communications manager at TEF at 21 💀

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3 years

To all my trans siblings on the TL, please know that you mean a great deal to me and to so many others and I am sending you lots of love and peace.

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2 years

This is even sadder when you think about the crazy amount of time, energy, effort, blood & sweat Nigerian journalists spent documenting the protests both on the local and international level. All while straddling the grief of seeing Nigerians like themsleves getting killed.

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2 years

Male tennis players have played until they were 47 or 49! A woman saying she would still like to keep playing but must choose to raise her family and focus on other ventures instead, even though this isn't a choice a man would be compelled to make, isn't too hard to grasp.

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3 years

Tiwa Savage and Brandy really did that!

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3 years

No. The lesson here is, certain things are only cool and acceptable when they are done by straight x masculine presenting men, but are considered invitation for assault and ridicule when they are done by the effeminate x queer folks who did those things first.

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3 years

2 years ago Nail Polish and Ashewo shorts on men were considered gay but look at today. Lesson - You do you, the world will catch up.

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3 months

What’s razz about the music she makes? I’ve never seen a more self-hating group of people than you guys. That the music she makes doesn’t immediately appeal to western sensibilities doesn’t make it razz.

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@MazeDaMouth

3 months

I really pray that Ayra Starr stops singing these razz songs.

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2 years

No you are not trying to stand by your friend, you’re trying to buy yourself some grace in case you also get exposed in the future.

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@CaptainArinze

2 years

I'll never roll my friend under the bus just for some validation from strangers. Never. Not me. What happened to 'ride or die?'. If you can't ride with your homie during his bad times, how are you going to do 'for better for worse?' Hold it down for your friends. Be dependable.

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5 years

@abdoulgalactico @butterpec4n no husband, just wives. You're welcome.

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3 years

nothing much to see here. just a rapist - who provided evidence that show he did rape someone - living unbothered and getting the typical support you would find with cishet Nigerian men.

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3 years

Yo, @Tife_fabunmi is 6’8 and me 6’3.. it was great meeting ya bro.

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2 years

Beyond obsessed with this chest that my carpenter made for me. i designed it btw

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2 years

😩😩😩😩

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2 years

A Nigerian man who got married to his white wife on a plantation is the person who started this conversation. That should tell you all you need to know.

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5 years

@MichelleHux @boluakindele The disrespect. Also genuinely surprised they let this piece of info out into the publication.

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2 years

For @RollingStone , I spent a late Monday afternoon speaking with @asakemusik on his album, exciting music career, growing up, the role Lagos played and continues to play in his artistry, being an introvert and everything else in between.

Asake Is Pumping Nigerian Street-Pop Full of New Life. Next Stop: ‘Greatness’

The 27-year-old has come to dominate clubs, airwaves, and gathering spaces across the country — all by documenting life in Lagos with a supple tenor and a sharp eye

www.rollingstone.com

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Nelson

@nelsoncj3

10 months

excellent news

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1 year

23! 🥳

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9 months

“It seems as though, right off the bat, [female artists] are expected to be not just good, but exceptional to be worthy.” The Headies continue to provide evidence that the Afrobeats industry and its institutions have almost no regard for its women.

The Afrobeats Industry Needs To Confront Its Bias Against Female Artists

“There could be so many talented undiscovered women artists who could propel the industry in the ways Tems has."

www.teenvogue.com

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9 months

“I Told Them… might be a triumphant sonic adventure, but its creator remains stunted, refusing to grow.” I reviewed @burnaboy ’s latest album for @RollingStone

Burna Boy Is His Own Best (And Worst) Hype Man on ‘I Told Them…’

Burna Boy's 'I Told Them...' Review

www.rollingstone.com

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@nelsoncj3

2 years

*personal news!* super excited to share that I will be writing a column for @TeenVogue launching in January 2023. It’s an “Afrobeats Culture Column” that will serve as both a guide to and a critical eye for content coming out of the Afrobeats culture.

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1 year

A sinister thing Lagos teaches you is casual cruelty. You see someone getting robbed, mind your business. You see a passenger getting bullied, keep quiet and look out the window. This city conditions you to approach kindness with suspicion, with the fear that it could kill you.

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2 years

I honestly want to be shocked at a white woman claiming she coined “Soro Soke Generation” which was literally a protest chant, but I am not tbh. White people with access have been entering spaces and telling stories locals can do with more accuracy and nuance.

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9 months

If you were likely to get killed over food you would definitely want to engage in productive conversations that can change the status quo, no matter how many times it is had. Nobody gives a shit about your discomfort.

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4 years

this is fatphobic, just so you know.

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@Lionezz__

4 years

Adele's glow up >>>>

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6 months

@ebereobua Ah okay. Ope o

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1 year

For my latest @TeenVogue column, I did a deep dive into the long running bias against Afrobeats Female Artists and how it does a disservice to the industry but also to the incredible female talents across the industry.

The Afrobeats Industry Needs To Confront Its Bias Against Female Artists

“There could be so many talented undiscovered women artists who could propel the industry in the ways Tems has."

www.teenvogue.com

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2 years

This is insane!!!!!

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2 years

My boyfriend is so invested in my growth and for that, I’m very grateful. That’s the extra push and accountability partner I need.

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2 years

Some people on TikTok are claiming that a group of Abuja boys created a dropbox link containing the nudes of various girls and added their IG and snapchat handles alongside it. What is worse is that many are treating it as “gist”.

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2 years

Respectability politics will never let some of you live a honest life. Always shying away from saying the truth esp when it is uncomfortable and getting mad at people who choose to do otherwise. The need to remain on good terms with dangerous institutions is just sad to see.

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1 year

I used to be a “it’s important to seek clarity” kind of person, but sometimes, talk is cheap and the easiest way to tell what people think of you is simply in how they treat you.

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2 months

Afrobeats artists release a compelling project without throwing unnecessary, juvenile tantrums challenge

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1 year

I don’t think you guys telling us to leave realize how fucked up it is to ask people to willingly become second class citizens in racist, culturally volatile environments when we have our own damn country ffs!

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@nelsoncj3

4 months

I am a writer. Of course I spend three weeks thinking about the opening line for a story.

Your Class Captain

@NzubeNlebedim

4 months

I’m a writer. Of course I talk to myself.

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2 years

Rest assured if I ever host an explicitly stated QUEER party and you invite a straight person, you and that person will go back to where you are coming from.

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4 years

i met a boy, a nice one, he took a picture of me, this is the picture, it looks like love.

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2 years

😏

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2 years

Now James didn't have to eat the girls up like this!!

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29 days

A sensible artist proud of her heritage.

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@janine_j

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‘All these amapiano moves that everyone does, it’s not even dancers that come up with those moves - it’s just random people, drunk uncles in the corners of clubs. It’s organic, and I think people are looking for that genuine vibe’ @Tyllaaaaaaa just gets it! 🇿🇦

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2 years

Finally!!

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9 months

This, and I am not even exaggerating, is an extremely miseducating thing to say. Afrobeats artists all have varying concerns grounded in their reality that they express through their music ALL the time. You have to literally be dense not to get a sense of that.

49th.

@the49thstreet

9 months

“... AfroBeats as people call it, is mostly about nothing, literally nothing. there’s no substance to it” - Burna Boy on the Afrobeats scene recently.

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1 year

“What happens when a person whose career has been marked by his active involvement in joy becomes inundated with loss?” In my latest column @TeenVogue , I wrote about Davido’s #TimeleesAlbum and his long running commitment to joy even in moments of pain.

Davido’s Language of Grief

The Nigerian musician’s newest album comes after unbearable loss. What does it mean for an artist who is defined by joy?

www.teenvogue.com

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@nelsoncj3

4 years

i almost got killed/viciously assaulted just last week and this is just a tip of what queer people face in Nigeria everyday. homophobia is stressful and senseless and it has to end!! #EndHomophobiaInNigeria

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@nelsoncj3

2 years

What an insanely stupid thing to say.

Elvis ⁶𓅓

@mafia3O

2 years

We inside the 02 Arena didn’t complain about the sound because we had hell of night but emeka with two cup of beans at ojuelegba is complaining about the sound after streaming it on free site. #DavidoO2

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3 years

Just a reminder that two homophobic men killed a gay man for not letting them kito him and nothing happened to them even after they admitted to doing it. Nothing, to the best of my knowledge, has happened to them.

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2 years

Me making the mistake of getting tired even though I am in my 20s:

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2 years

A lot of the commentary around Funke Akindele running for office is veiled in sexism and the disbelief that - perhaps because she is a woman - she can't possibly be serious about her political intentions the way her male counterparts have been.

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2 years

okay I am done, I promise.

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6 months

@AntiVibesKaycee Right??? They had so much more power together and had such a unique viewpoint that is hard to find now that they are apart

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1 year

The idea of having to insist that you aren’t an Igbo person sets a dangerous precedent. It is an unintended acceptance that discrimination might be okay if indeed you were an Igbo person. That you cannot believe, you a non-Igbo person, can possibly experience this.

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5 months

My baby

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2 years

Successful first week in the bag ✅

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3 years

So I just started as Citizen Editor at @zikokomag and I would love to speak with people who have managed to get their national ID cards in this period. If you know someone who has a story to share, I am here to listen and tell it. Please feel free to shoot me a DM. Also retweet!

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9 months

Na me write am. Don’t forget to read the full piece here:

Burna Boy Is His Own Best (And Worst) Hype Man on ‘I Told Them…’

Burna Boy's 'I Told Them...' Review

www.rollingstone.com

BASITO

@itzbasito

9 months

“ Burna Boy seems unable to distinguish criticism from hate, and such surprisingly shallow reasoning threatens to leave a bitter taste at the end of this project.” - Rollingstone

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3 years

Can’t wait for this sound to blow up

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7 days

This piece is important now more than ever. Afrobeats women did not just start “peaking”, they’ve always been on par with, even bigger than, their male counterparts. You’ve just never bothered to notice.

The Afrobeats Industry Needs To Confront Its Bias Against Female Artists

“There could be so many talented undiscovered women artists who could propel the industry in the ways Tems has."

www.teenvogue.com

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2 years

thought you might like this.

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2 years

You will not believe where I just got a job. This year is ending on an incredible note yo!!!!!

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5 months

In the best version of this story, it is only an accident, something that almost happens, that turns into a funny story later. In the best version of this story, you are still here. And I can hear your bright, sweet laughter and you still let me hold you in our many long hugs.

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3 years

I- 📷: @nengi_nelson

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2 years

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1 year

is this even real life???? 😭😭🙏🏿

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10 months

This is irresponsible journalism. He has represented many other well loved celebrities but this page forgot to mention that.

Pop Crave

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10 months

Lizzo is being represented by Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer for her harassment and toxic workplace lawsuit. Singer’s clientele ranges from a variety of stars, including Bill Cosby, Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Chris Brown, Brett Ratner, and currently, Jonah Hill.

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3 years

There is wickedness and then there are these people. #EndSARSMemorial #EndSARS #WeWillNeverForget

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3 years

there is something animalistic about how Nigerian parents raise their children, especially their female children.

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11 days

Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Sounds cute.

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3 years

it would have been so nice to be the child of an old money Nigerian. be a part of the alté community; only pitching a story once a month, writing just for vibes, dying my hair every few weeks and partying with my fellow Nigerian-other nationality friends anytime we see in Lagos.

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I’ve recently started as a West Africa Correspondent over @OkayAfrica . I’ll be covering pop-culture, art, politics, and other socio-cultural concerns. Please send story tips to: Nelson @okayafrica .com

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7 months

Long time, no see

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3 years

In case you forgot #QueerNigerianlivesmatter

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3 years

Y'all like queer content but not when it is created by actual queer people. got it.

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3 months

I don’t think Elsa directly blames Naomi for driving her towards alcoholism, but in such a volatile industry where opportunities are scarce for young, Black people, the idea of being iced out by a powerful figure can be pretty destabilizing.

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3 years

wow

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4 years

wild

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1 year

This man, like his predecessor, will spend his entire administration attending to his frail health because he is too stubborn and wicked to admit he isn’t fit to lead this country. What a frustrating place to be!

Sahara Reporters

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1 year

EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria’s ‘President-elect’ Tinubu Set To Return To France For Medical Care To Boost His Health In Preparation For May 29 Swearing-In | Sahara Reporters

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Told Queer people in Nigeria to leave the county or face prosecution, I am super glad she has been dismissed.

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