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@bwesigye
“In fairness fly and on sourness sail.” - Vukoni Lupa Lasaga
Los Angeles, CA
Joined December 2008
- Nigerians: we love you, but you love some exceptionalism too much. You're too quick to exceptionalise yourselves and your suffering. Museveni's dictatorship has been wilding, Omah Lay and Tems' experience isn't because of their Nigerianness. Museveni deported Yvonne Chaka Chaka.
- Stella Nyanzi has been announced winner of The Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression 2020. Given that she remains jailed, she sent a handwritten note in the place of an acceptance speech. #FreeStellaNyanzi #45Poems4Freedom #Push4StellaNyanzi
- Replying to @bwesigyeLike we ridicule the US for its collective ignorance about the world outside its borders, only caring about exploiting it, South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya generally and in that order approach other African countries the same way. Too exceptional! Rarely center other Africans.
- Replying to @bwesigyeAnd btw, I personally learnt about #EndSARS from Ugandan activists tweeting about it. If you reciprocated the interest other Africans take in you and your affairs, you'd have approached Omah Lay and Tems' arrest differently. You'd have known about the November massacre in Uganda.
- Replying to @bwesigyeYou hide behind your colonial nationalism, aka flag nationalism, and have built an exceptionalist attitude that distorts your analyses of how other Africans in other countries are suffering. Omah Lay and Tems' case isn't about Nigerianness but Museveni's dictatorial methods.
- Uganda is a colonial creation. That is not "news". English as the official language of Uganda is of course a colonial imposition. That is also not "news". It may however be news to some, that Kiswahili as an official language of Uganda, is also a colonial imposition.
- The Moi dictatorship put out a warrant of arrest for Matigari, and when they realised he was a character in a novel by Ngugi wa Thiong'o confiscated all the copies they could find. Ngugi created a fictitious character that put a dictatorship on tension they wanted to arrest him.On this day, in 1938, Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kamiriithu, in present day Kenya. What are your favourites of his many books? We wish him a very wonderful birthday.
- In 2018, let's read more books. Let's leave the idea that seeing tweets about a topic makes us knowledgeable enough to form opinions, or finding stuff on reductive blogs and websites should replace books. Let's read, let's have informed opinions. Even if it means tweeting less.
- Because really, from Lugard (the colonial figure in both Ugandan and Nigerian histories) to the #LekkiMassacre and the November massacre in Uganda, what ordinary Nigerians are going through, ordinary Ugandans are going through, too. Our different flags do nothing for us!
- Victoria has no lake in Africa. Please call that lake by the names the people who have lived around it for centuries call it. Lake Victoria is not just fiction, it is an oppressive fantasy. To repeat it is to participate in the oppression. Victoria has no lake in Africa.
- I managed to defend my dissertation, two months ago on July 28, 2023. The PhD journey wasn't easy. In the six years it took, I survived an assassination attempt in January 2019 and overcame a lot more personal challenges. I lost so much and gained even more. Gratitude is a must.
- The African youth drowning in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe are literally following resources looted from their African countries by Europe.
- If the US were an African country, how would White Experts and intellectuals describe what is happening now? Let us use those adjectives.
