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@odanga_r

2 years

I find white scholars of Africa, or "Africanists" to be funny (dangerous), strange (dangerous), odd (dangerous) creatures. Let me demonstrate. I have a bit of time today...

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Found the video! OMG it’s even better than I remember. She called out Israel AND Morocco by name!!! Sheeesh!!!

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@odanga_r

5 months

Remember that time the AU gave Israel observer status? She protested so till they were kicked out. There’s a video of her saying, “That decision has not been implemented AND IT WON’T BE WHILE I’M STILL THERE.” One of my favourite IR moments of all time.

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@odanga_r

1 month

The day you meet an East African, your head will burst.

The Libidinalcircumnavigarian

@TLiterarian

1 month

People who speak more than 2-3 languages to native fluency literally do not exist. 99% of so called hyper polyglots are lying to you (and themselves)

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@odanga_r

2 years

(There is something to be said about the hubris of the EuroAmerican academic and their dirty, voyeuristic gaze—that desire to be the one to publish the "secret" things, especially when those "secret things" are those of marginalised peoples that rubs me all sorts of wrong ways.)

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@odanga_r

7 months

Again, I’m begging you all to stop naming your kids after revolutionary heroes unless you’re 100% sure they’re going to get up to some great stuff. Sankara over here is explaining to me how Structural Adjustment would have worked if African leaders would have been patient enough.

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@odanga_r

1 month

Show me a country where an African ambassador acts as a mouthpiece for the ruling government’s domestic policy. Show me the Namibian ambassador to the US sitting on CNN discussing student loan forgiveness. That’s all I want. I’ll wait.

Citizen TV Kenya

@citizentvkenya

1 month

Meg Whitman: Taxes are an issue in every country and what we he hear from American companies is consistency, keeping taxes the same. Businesses make investments with a return horizon. There’s two ways to increase taxes; to expand the tax basis meaning the number of people and…

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@odanga_r

2 years

Women spoke to you about their private life and the first thing you thought of was how to fit it into your research? Intimate conversations that are "usually" private, explicitly private (confidential even) were fodder for research? Kudos! One Melville Herskowitz prize here stat!

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@odanga_r

2 years

In an institution with a 7% Black pop., you walked into the only Black space, decided to centre the experience of a yt woman, and you think the reason it was turned away is because it was "too unconventional?" I'm begging grad students to learn how to interpret feedback.

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@odanga_r

2 years

"I married an African, gained access to private spaces. And a thesis was born! Also although majority of my students are African, I couldn't find any African with whom to write this paper." O Africans! Who can find an African? If only they were like gold, then we would find them!

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@odanga_r

2 years

"Autoethnographic" note: I'm a Kenyan-African male boy, with a BA from a university in Kenya, and an MA in African Studies from a US university, Howard University, so, an HBCU. I am also non-tenured, (apparently that's also an identity that grad students have to inhabit.)

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@odanga_r

5 years

@kirigwi @sindednis It's the chat that killed more than the meme...

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@odanga_r

2 years

Also that "usually" is doing some heavy lifting. Where did the privacy end? Who decided & how? Under what circumstances did African, Muslim women agree that info that is ritually secret, was no longer secret and could be part of a research project? See where I'm going with this?

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@odanga_r

1 year

The “Global South” scholars couldn’t afford the $9,999 conference fee nor were their visas approved. Not to mention, the Embassy retained their passports for further “processing.”

Silences in NGOs Discourses

@phethani4

1 year

Decolonial scholars hanging out after a conference Conference theme : decolonial pedagogy and epistemic justice in the Global South . Global South scholars in attendance : 0

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@odanga_r

2 years

(SIDEBAR, at the recently concluded ASAA, @Njokiwamai & I ran into some yt PhD students from a European uni researching lives of queer men in a virulently homophobic W.African country. Senegal IIRC. We were dumbfounded! WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT YOU COULD LITERALLY GET THEM KILLED?)

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@odanga_r

2 years

"I finally found (read "discovered") a space to talk about my whiteness in Africana Studies." Ma'am put that thing away😭 I so love when white folk rant and rave about their marginalisation in Black spaces. It tickles me something mighty. Makes me chuckle. And I love chuckling.

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@odanga_r

2 years

(No, I don't want to hear cases for it. It's ridiculous. You're a white, postdoc in an R1 PWI, likely guaranteed funding through your prog., and this is the crisis you've chosen to inhabit and bring for us today? Shut up. This is what you write in "Limitations to the Study"?

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@odanga_r

2 years

@rosewaterframes I'm actually crying and choking and screaming and dying: Elizabeth-ing if you would, but you shouldn't, so please don't.

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4 years

@pam_boy

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@odanga_r

2 years

Okay, I'm done, I'm done, now for real. ps: notice how i did this whole thread without using 19 different conjugations of the word "decolonise"

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@odanga_r

2 years

"We want to see more decolonial journals!!! DECOLONIZE NOW!!!" (presented at the 99th meeting of the ASA, published in the African Studies Review) The jokes peer-review themselves😭😭😭

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@odanga_r

3 years

Again, I am here to remind y’all: London Heathrow airport (alone) emits more carbon annually than ALL of Kenya does in the same period. Remember this. But no one is doing such plans there. Dots motherfuckers; connect them.

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@odanga_r

3 years

It’s only Cancel Culture if it comes from the Cançéle region of France. Otherwise it’s ✨Responsibility for your Actions✨

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@odanga_r

2 years

Here's where it starts to get ridiculous. Like rip-roaring, crack my ribs ridiculous. I didn't know tenure (or the lack thereof) was a factor of precarity for grad student careers lmao.

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@odanga_r

2 years

Hopefully then, this means I know what I'm talking about—or not. It's not even clear what credentialism is for in African Studies exactly. I'll tag the article I'm talking about, since I'll be referring to it, and hey, CITATIONS! DISCOURSE! Go go academe🥳

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@odanga_r

2 years

Here's the faculty roster for MSU's AAAS Dept. Look at what you see. So, in a dept full of Black non-male faculty (at a PWI), you decided the work you want to do, is tell the experience of a white woman...at a PWI?

People

Faculty & Staff For general inquiries about AAAS please contact [email protected]

aaas.msu.edu

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@odanga_r

2 years

This sentence is WILD.

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@odanga_r

2 years

My grandfather was born in 1925. A whole 35years before African history began. Wonderful.

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@odanga_r

2 years

This isn't even about competitive marginalisations, it's just facts, off the top of my head I can think of 6 tenured faculty at my uni with more precarity than a 1st yr PhD at an R1. Lmao. Shut up.)

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@odanga_r

2 years

NOTE: She couldn't find such space at MSU or UW-Madison, PWIs with 7% and 2% Black student enrollment respectively. She had to go chair a panel at the ASA to "find" this space. Which, given the history of the ASA, I suppose makes sense anyhow. Yeah, that tracks. No notes.

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@odanga_r

2 years

"Our bibliography below is a good starting point..." LMAO I promise you, it's not! The works in here that are most central to your arguments are by non-Africans. Not just that, Euro-Americans like yourself. If this was the POL2000 class I took in undergrad, you'd have failed.

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@odanga_r

2 years

We are greeted with this whopper: a quote from Mudimbe, a pivot to an ASA president, priming us for an assault from the one and only...Melville Herskowitz. Already, the score is 3-1. Real ones know what mention of the ASA evokes in the mind of the conscious Africanist.

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@odanga_r

3 years

Help me understand this, I swear I'm just asking...this happened, while students had been sleeping outside of Blackburn for 5 days? Right? On the same campus grounds, yeah? Okay, cool.

Howard University

@HowardU

3 years

Congratulations to the 2021-22 Howard University Royal Court! More 📸 to come! #HUHC21 🦬💙❤️

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@odanga_r

2 years

This thread is getting too long lmao. But I could keep going. Fr fr I could keep going. I haven't even gotten into the hue of their bibliography and the substantively weird arguments that they both present. This was such a funny thing to read Jesus!

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@odanga_r

5 months

Oh, just so the KEs🇰🇪 on the TL know, when she talks about Morocco flexing financial muscle to normalize its colonialism, she’s talking about Kenya. Morocco had been kicked out of the AU for like 33yrs and got back in after lobbying HARD! And Jaden helped to bring them back in.

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@odanga_r

5 months

Found the video! OMG it’s even better than I remember. She called out Israel AND Morocco by name!!! Sheeesh!!!

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@odanga_r

2 years

You couldn't be bothered to think of anyone out of the white library. Please, no, don't mention your bibliography here. It has been through enough😭

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@odanga_r

2 years

This part caught my eye so I looked her up. Lol y'all! She got her MA from MSU's Department of African American and African Studies and went on to UW-Madison's African Cultural Studies Department. But wait, let's go back to that MSU bit...

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@odanga_r

2 years

Eg, it starts with a hackneyed Mudimbe quote then quickly, literally the first sentence, repositions a white pres. of the ASA. Yet non-white ASA presidents have handled this exact issue. (Pearl Robinson comes to mind.)

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@odanga_r

3 years

I really want to know how those campus tour guides will explain this…

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@odanga_r

2 years

We’ve reached the “hata Uhuru wasn’t even a bad president” phase of this administration😂 It’s not even 5months in. Man, we’re so fucked😂

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@odanga_r

1 year

Because I have no sense of self-respect, I’m reading Theodore Roosevelt’s “African Game Trails” and of course, I come across this…and I mean, okay🤷🏽‍♂️

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@odanga_r

1 month

Like, speaking 3+ languages in E. Africa is so normal and commonplace, in certain places it's literally a matter of survival. DON'T FUCKING MAKE ME BRING UP MCWHORTER!!!

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@odanga_r

2 years

"Positionality matters here..." Told to African scholars, by a British-born, Australian-raised, America-settled Editor-in-chief of a journal of African Studies. Do you people ever hear yourselves???🤔

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@odanga_r

9 months

Thinking about that Air France stewardess who was very worried about “ze Kenyan mosquito fhom Naihobi” in the plane cabin when we landed in Paris. For no reason at all of course.

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@odanga_r

2 years

Kenyans are in the comments catching feelings. Wasee, let’s just accept our food is trash and keep it moving. It’s fine. It’s okay. Y’all’s favourite restaurant is Java. We’re not allowed to talk about food when other Africans are talking.

#RejectFinanceBill2024

@Karugzzzz

2 years

Im afraid she hasnt lied 😭

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@odanga_r

3 years

@HowardU This ratio is going to be insane😂

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@odanga_r

1 year

You see how she says, “FLASH NEWS” instead of “Newsflash?” Yeah, shows you how back to front her brain really is.

Magatte Wade

@magattew

1 year

Africa is NOT poor because of colonization. From my conversation with @jordanbpeterson :

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@odanga_r

1 year

I'm crying😭Last week when those lawmakers were saying "LGBTQ is worse than murder" y'all were airing their comments unabridged. Now the same autocracy is at your doorstep you're stressing us with 4min editorials short of tears. Mtego wa panya hunasa waliomo na wasiokuwemo😂

NTV Kenya

@ntvkenya

1 year

Suppressing The Media: Senator Aaron Cheruiyot now wants President Ruto to "crush" the media. If crushing things is a government policy, then there is surely no shortage of things to crush - the high cost of living, runaway fuel prices, the price of unga... #NTVTonight

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@odanga_r

7 months

How am I supposed to take people like these seriously when academics like Prof. Sylvia Tamale will literally email you a copy of their book free of charge if you only ask? How am I supposed to take anyone who says, “Refer to my published work, period�� as anything but a joke?😂

MOgada

@m_ogada

7 months

Repeated Public Announcement: Students, I do NOT do academic interviews. Talking to me is not academic work, and I am overqualified to be a data point on your study. Refer to my published work, period.

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@odanga_r

3 years

Maybe “Howard Forward” should mean leaving Wayne behind.

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@odanga_r

3 years

CONCERNING LANGUAGE: I need y’all to stop referring to negotiations between Admin & Students as “The University v. Students”. Please note the students at #BlackburnTakeover ARE “the University” as much as Admin are “The University”. Wayne is no more part of @HowardU than we are.

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@odanga_r

3 years

“Christian Love” is one of the purest, strongest forms of hate.

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@odanga_r

3 years

In all this we aren’t even talking about the missing $20,000 at Student Affairs. We’re not talking about missing funds, equipment, mistreated faculty. Small small housing, townhall, and BOT representation is what they’re fighting. Now what about when we get to those other issues?

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@odanga_r

7 months

*sigh*

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@odanga_r

2 years

*Bomb threat on Campus* HU Admin: We will hold a series of town halls to explain to y’all why you shouldn’t panic.

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@odanga_r

2 years

I am here once again to remind you people that once we “decolonise” some things, they will cease to exist. And that, and I cannot emphasise this enough, is FINE. Step into it.

N I A - C E R I S E

@niacerise

2 years

I would love to do PhD on decolonising mission work. As a missionary I’ve seen so much racism and scorn from people who hate the same people they are going in to minister to. Just go home!!

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@odanga_r

2 years

@ARMathur91 Aah. Now I see why US universities have begun to lump them together as Middle East, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) depts. If you put all the rubbish together, you only need one fire🫠

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@odanga_r

1 year

I want to access an article on African Nationalism published in 1967 at Makerere. It's only available at Leiden University. LEIDEN. I'm seated in Nairobi and can't access an article published in Kampala but it's in LEIDEN. The amount of handwringing I'm doing! The exasperation!

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@odanga_r

5 months

*sigh* I’m usually the last person to defend Kenya on anything but this simply DID NOT happen. It just didn’t. To non-KEs, @Kenyans is not a news outlet. And if you look up this headline, you will not see it reported on any other reputable outlet. Because it DIDN’T happen.

Kenyans.co.ke

@Kenyans

5 months

Kenya Warns South Africa for Filing Case Against Israel

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1 year

I met @MsOlisakwe today. ME: Hi, I’m Rene. It’s nice to meet you. UO: I’m Ukamaka. ME: Yes, I know who you are! I’m one of your biggest fans! @IseleMagazine is one of the journals that got me through the pandemic. Then she signed my advanced copy of her new book!

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@odanga_r

5 months

@Yediads @catherine_amayi Okay, so I know this video is also out there but there’s a time she came to Kenya and she spoke about this Israel-AU thing on a panel with then-MFA CS Rachel Omamo. And when Omamo’s turn came to speak about it, it was the most limp-dick, sorry ass, cowardly thing I’ve ever seen😭

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@odanga_r

3 years

I don’t know if we’re talking about it yet but when #BlackburnTakeover ends & ALL demands are met, we’re going to have to think about what the future @HowardU looks like. The pain & tears of the past 13days demand we think about what our relationship with Admin will look like.

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@odanga_r

2 years

@MarigaThoithi Lol. The man was my International Law professor in undergrad. If this was a reference to his comments on human rights, trust me, y'all haven't heard anything yet. Wait till it gets to his views on workplace sexual harrassment and refugees. Then the real party will start.

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@odanga_r

2 years

Also just as an aside, I maintain a very heavy fear of anyone whose political beliefs start from, “Family is the basic unit of society.” I’m not a prophet but that kind of stuff is going to come back to bite us in the rear VERY soon.

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@odanga_r

3 years

Everytime I see a non-African “Africanist” describing their research interests, the first thought that comes to my mind, “Inakuhusu wapi?” Like is there nothing to study where you’re from? Why are you writing a paper on Kenya? Boris Johnson isn’t keeping you busy enough🤔🤨

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@odanga_r

2 years

I am the only Rongai (Kenyan) boy in the global south who challenged Kelvin Kariuki from cutting the porridge line in Class 4 at Uhuru Gardens Primary School. Githeri Man got more awards than I did. And it took me all of tea break to do so. He stood in line for a couple of hours.

Rasna Warah

@RasnaWarah

2 years

I am the only (Kenyan) woman in the global south who has challenged the UN. But Githeri Man got more awards than I did. And it took me 6 years to write my book. He stood in line for a couple of hours.

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1 year

Today I learned what I hope is a lesson in productivity (and self care?) in the archive. Warning, colonial bullshittery ahead. A short, rambling🧵

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@odanga_r

7 months

Meanwhile, all the brilliant academics I’ve had the pleasure of meeting have always been kind and enthusiastic to talk about their work. Send them an email and they respond with enthusiasm. Some even share their primary source material for you to study for yourself.

Catherine #RejectFinanceBill2024

@catherine_amayi

7 months

Kenyan academics are truly bottom of the barrel. This could have been a whatsapp text, you know. I just find the meanness unnecessary 😒 🙄

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@odanga_r

2 years

Please, I’m begging you people, leave The African Studies Association. Drop your memberships or whatever. Just leave it. I promise you, that organisation has no unique insights to offer. And is woefully unprepared for the work that lies ahead; making it, in fact, an obstacle.

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@odanga_r

3 years

Yo! Can folk check this out real quick!!! #BlackburnTakeover

Howard Housing and the Shady Private Company Behind It.pdf

drive.google.com

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@odanga_r

29 days

We’re not doing this Afropolitan “Child of Two Worlds” nonsense again. Mugo Gatheru already did it in 1964. If you go to school in the UK, US, China, Korea, Australia and you come back with an identity crisis, pls keep it to yourself. We don’t care. Read Hamidou Kane and shut up.

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@odanga_r

2 years

African Studies doesn't actually have the faintest idea what to do about its White Supremacy problem. *send tweet*

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@odanga_r

10 days

you'll be enjoying a kkk rally then boom, a slur. now it's awkward.

alana 🦋🤠

@alanaauston

11 days

you’ll be enjoying church then boom, homophobia. now it’s awkward.

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2 years

I went to high school in a very rural, fundamentalist Christian school in Eldoret North constituency. The road to the school was untarmacked, potholed, and risky. And the place didn’t get stable electricity till like 2012. Or clean, tapped water till 2013–from a private borehole.

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@odanga_r

2 years

Two things: 1. I don’t know why y’all are reposting that interview (regardless of the savvy takes you’re offering—the circulation isn’t worth it.) 2. Observing Chimamanda’s transformation from a whatever she was into a Florida Governor is an interesting (dangerous) spectacle.

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@odanga_r

5 months

@catherine_amayi I should have saved it the first time I came across it😂Look at the kind of search terms I had to do to find it…😂

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@odanga_r

10 months

The second I saw that Kenya bracelet, I just knew I was about to hear hot nonsense. You’re Kenyan and you didn’t know you were Black till you were 18? When your class 2 teacher taught you the colours of that flag on your wrist, what did she say the Red and Black stood for?

The Head DEI In Charge

@Dreadful4Tymes

11 months

In the words of my brother Conscious Lee: “Education is Elevation”

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@odanga_r

2 years

“We teach war criminals to shrink themselves. We say to war criminals, ‘You can grow old, but not too old that you annoy non-war criminals. We say to war criminals, you can bomb Cambodia, but not too much…’” (Preview from “We Should All be War Criminals” forthcoming 2023)

Alec Russell

@AlecuRussell

2 years

You are doing well Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells 99–year-old Kissinger at #ftweekendfestival “I chose my parents well” he says.

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@odanga_r

10 months

Kenyans (who grew up with Fair & Lovely ads, made fun of dark-skinned people, bleach their skin) will camp in your comment section for days screaming that in Africa, you are a human first, then a “tribe,” then a religion. There’s no race in Africa. You may want to reconsider Doc.

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@folukeifejola

10 months

I may write a blog post on the "Africans finding out they are Black outside Africa" discourse...

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@odanga_r

2 years

I hate when scholars of imperialism say things like, "This is about knowing the truth, it's not about accusing people" because I AM making an accusation! The world we live in was created by a perpetrator. It didn't just magically appear. I AM ACCUSING PEOPLE. I'm assigning blame.

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@odanga_r

3 years

Go back a bit further. Before Texas entered the Union, it had seceded from Mexico in 1836. Why? Because Mexico was abolishing slavery and the white Americans who’d moved there didn’t like it. So they left. And in 1863 when America wanted to abolish slavery…Texas left again.

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@odanga_r

3 years

This man said “agree to disagree”. ABOUT MOLD😂I’m screaming😂

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@odanga_r

3 years

@jajafish20 @jodyroumain No you missed the best part😂 “He is unfortunately currently serving…”

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@odanga_r

1 year

@AbySene9 What’s funny is that I know for sure that when posts devolve into Kiswahili, it’s usually a very savvy insult or takedown. Analysis is done in English, then the takedown is done in a comfortable language. And I love it.

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@odanga_r

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@_KILLA_KEV “Bi- son”

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@odanga_r

4 years

Wait till y'all find out how they mashed up various distinct ethnic groups into single linguistic "tribes" so that they could save time with translating the Bible. Dakho, Isukha, Maragoli, Wanga, Bukusu...Nope. LUHYA. Giriama, Chonyi, Kambe, Duruma, Rabai...Nope. MIJIKENDA.

No White Saviors

@nowhitesaviors

4 years

Missionaries have been one of the most effective instruments of colonisation. They have been used as a tool to control & subjugate indigenous people. By imposing their religion & the superiority of their god, they set in motion the domination & exploitation we still see today.

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@odanga_r

2 years

Give him 3 weeks and he’ll be a guest on Jordan Peterson’s podcast with Chimamanda, J.K. Rowling and Kissinger as Peterson cries about how pronouns “transcend the multiple subjectivities of power, roughly speaking.”

Francis Scarr

@francis_scarr

2 years

Recently freed from jail in the US, the "merchant of death" Viktor Bout tells Maria Butina how horrified he was to learn in America that there are 72 genders "Not just gay people and normal people, but 72!"

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@odanga_r

3 years

As seen outside the Howard A-Building. In case anyone was ever in doubt. #BlackburnTakeover

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@odanga_r

2 years

Let me say with a massive amount of (unearned) confidence, the African Studies model of yesteryear where peeping ethnographers went out into the African bush, peeped and pried, then came back to write weird things that were taken as gospel, is dead.

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@odanga_r

2 years

Today I found out why Dr. MRO’s Twitter handle is @ISASaxonists and you know what…maybe I didn’t need to know this much about Medieval Studies. But I’m kinda glad that I do.

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@odanga_r

2 months

When we (I) say you people (racists) don’t know Black people, it always sounds like an inane, unnecessary observation but you people really don’t know Black people and everyday you show it in the most obscene ways possible.

Oli London

@OliLondonTV

2 months

Masked Columbia University students perform bizarre silent dance without music as they entertain the hundreds of Palestinian activists occupying the university campus.

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@odanga_r

11 months

You people have decided that Pan-Africanism is a stand in for homophobia and bigotry? As in, in your heads, those are synonyms? Were you flung against walls as infants? Is this late onset shaken baby syndrome? Don't fucking piss me off.

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@odanga_r

1 year

@Dshady9 Please shut up.

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@odanga_r

3 years

@jodyroumain It’s also not lost on me that this rhetoric never extends past the “revelation”. They never offer anything past “MLK had white bitches!!!” Okay Charyse, so where do we go from here? What does this teach us?. Crickets. Nothing. Just riding the FBI’s dick bicycle from side to side.

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@odanga_r

2 years

(all those claiming that that tweet was “vulgar and unbecoming of a scholar” have clearly never spoken to scholars outside of the 2hr-bounds of their classes—even within those classes. so i don’t even know what they’re on about.)

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@odanga_r

4 years

@yemialadee Is EXACTLY the woman she thinks she is! Aish! Made my day with @angeliquekidjo Shekere Combination! #HappyAfricaDay

✊🏾 yemialade

@yemialadee

4 years

🌍❤💪🏾 Happy #africaday

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@odanga_r

2 years

“My father was kicked out of “Keenya” in the 1960s…” Yeah, what was he doing in Keenya in the 1960s? Please, tell the class.

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@odanga_r

1 year

Reminder that slavery in Kenya Colony was “abolished” on Oct 1, *1907* and replaced with a FORCED LABOUR system. So, to even suggest that the (Kenya) African experience of Blackness thru colonialism is “liberated” from enslavement should be laughable except that this isn’t funny.

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@odanga_r

1 year

Hm, I once questioned the usefulness of Hegel in an article on African history. After the class, someone walked up to me and asked me, “Aside from his racism, why don’t you like Hegel?” So, I went home and made tea. (you know we could just leave Hegel out of it all, right?)

isaac Samuel

@rhaplord

1 year

introducing your African history topic with a quote by Hegel, centers Hegel since the topic is framed as a response to him introducing the topic with a factual account, then bringing up Hegel later, is a more effective refutation b'se now the reader is aware of Hegel's ignorance

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@odanga_r

3 years

PLOT OF @HowardU SINCE JUNE: ADMIN: We want to listen to students. STUDENTS: Okay, put us in the BOT. ADMIN: Our students have diverse, have valuable opinions. S: Then put us in the BOT! A: We really want to listen to students. S: BOARD OF TRUSTEES!!! ADMIN: So valuable [REPEAT]

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