I'm happy to share my new poem in the October/November issue of @TheLondonMag exploring the story of Eden. Kindly read & engage. Thank you.

RT @TroyOnyango: the complexity of the james baldwin and nikki giovanni conversation being reduced to “lie to me” is exactly the kind of ps…

Kcee from KcPresh group He fell off and came back with a monster hit in 2013 “Limpopo”

This guy sabi.

What a loser you are.

This is why i do not argue on twitter anymore. It'll seem like you are talking to a wall. So just let it go.

Ever wondered what the difference between a Centre forward/striker is, a wing back/ full back, defensive midfielder/deep lying playmaker ?

I’ve heard people say that heaven and hell are “necessary fiction” in regulating human behavior, that if people knew neither exists, they would go berserk. We can debate the degree to which the claim is true some other time. But for now: what the claim often misses is the fact that heaven and hell divisions do not exist in many ancient and contemporary religions, and that adherents do not become sociopaths because of this. Ever since my “Christian-Babalawo” grandfather told me that proto-Yoruba cosmology does not conceive of Hell, I started to imagine that perhaps people did not require portents of a fiery pit to be on their best behavior. Perhaps if Kunle Afolayan knew my grandpa, his second season of Anikulapo, which is set in 17th-century Oyo Empire, would not have depicted Hell. It’s clearly an anachronism, a case of Afolayan retrojecting his Christian influence onto ancient Yorubas. (I suspect Mr. Afolayan also bears Greek influence, perhaps from watching Hercules or Clash of the Titans, because the pathway to Hell in Anikulapo resembles the River Styx.) Like Yorubas, ancient Israelites did not conceive of Hell, and thought both good and bad people went to Sheol after death. This is not Hell, but rather a permanent state of unconsciousness. Ancient Jews would only start to develop afterlife concepts from the 6th century BCE after being exiled to Babylon. So it could have been a theodicean response to their predicament, but also because in exile they interacted with Persian/Zoroastrian culture, which had well-developed ideas of heaven and Hell, although scholars debate the degree to which Zoroastrianism had an impact. Further developments of afterlife concepts in Judaism would happen because of both Greek influence and persecution, especially during the Maccabean Revolt period in the 2nd century BCE. Even in Jesus’ time, it was not a settled matter, with various Jewish sects having different ideas about the afterlife. The Sadducees, for example, thought death was final. Like Ivan Drago, they thought if you die, you die. Christianity also did not have heaven and hell divisions from the outset. The earliest Christians, like the historical Jesus and Paul, were Jewish apocalypticists who believed the world as they knew it may end in their lifetime, an event they believed would see the wicked destroyed permanently (not “eternally”), while the righteous live on earth with the messiah-king. It was only when parousia (the Second Coming of Jesus) did not happen as soon as they thought it would that Christians, who were influenced by Platonism and Greek thought, started to reinterpret their earlier views and develop the concepts of heaven and hell. So... are heaven and hell really “necessary fiction” if many cultures did just fine without them?

Elon, you’re not a bystander wondering what’s riling people up you bought the megaphone, rewired the algorithm, and personally hit “post.” When Britain was last on fire you told 200 million people “civil war is inevitable.” You boost Tommy Robinson a man a court found lied about a waterboarded refugee child to the top of everyone’s feed. And now you’re stood over the blaze going “must be something else, eh?” Scroll down. The replies under your own tweet are calling to fire migrants into space and “send them underground.” That’s not the weather. That’s the room you built, the door you opened, and the crowd you keep cheering on. You don’t get to pour the petrol from the world’s biggest platform and then squint at the flames asking who lit it. The call’s coming from inside the house, mate.

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

Liar liar pants on fire

Let me tell you why Atlético is blocking Julián’s move to Barça. It’s behind the scenes stuff that fans don’t know. It has to do with two people: Víctor Font and Mateu Alemany (former Barça sporting director), who is now Atlético’s director. Mateu Alemany still holds a grudge against Laporta because he chased him away for Deco. If you remember, during the presidential election campaign, Xavi said Barça had an agreement with Messi, then Laporta came out to deny it. The next day, Víctor Font came out and said Laporta was lying — that there was an agreement with Messi for his return. How did he know? Apparently, Mateu Alemany had an agreement with Font to come back to Barça as sporting director if Font won the election. After Laporta sacked him, Alemany formed a good relationship with Font so he could return to Barça. Font got to know about the agreement from Alemany. And everything became clear when Alemany himself came out to say Laporta was lying. ( Going against your former boss? ) Víctor Font even said during the election campaign that there had never been talks between Álvarez and Barça, and that people at Atlético told him. Who are those people? Obviously, Mateu Alemany. Deco and Alemany don’t have a good relationship because of how Deco succeeded him at Barca. That’s why Barça is using an intermediary for this negotiation with Atlético. Alemany doesn’t want to sell Álvarez to Laporta, and he is the obstacle behind the deal and all their social media rants.

You're only making this tweet today because vou're a MAGA-coon & an unrepentant Trumpist. If Egypt was hosting & denying visas left right and centre, you'll have been writing threads on the TL about it & been one of the loudest voices championing the criticism.

This is it. Bro is on the spectrum. He shies away from the public and people think he is acting nonchalant. Lmao.

Olise might just be a shy guy but since he looks good & has swag they’ll call him nonchalant, never seen anyone call Kante nonchalant 😆

Oh what is a Nigerian without solipsism? A broken record.

Because Eminem assimilated and Drake. Did. Eminem says he is black. Drake says he "associates" himself with black people & not "identify as" a black man. Drake has slave bars, accuses black artists of causing "white guilt" to sell records. E plenty o.

Lol. Do not provoke me.

See who is talking

Bro idk why Drake gets the BIGGEST passes i’ve ever seen! And it be by black people! Kendrick was 100% right on this lame ahh culture vulture

Every single one.