Akinleye
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Akinleye
@mackee_F
Historian | Linguist | Africanist. I make history and social commentary.

Finally, a Nigerian cartoon with our characters, culture, and mythology. 😮 This animated series “Iyanu” is set in Yorubaland with all-African cast voiced by stars, including Adesua Etomi-Wellington, Stella Damasus, and Shaffy Bello. 🇳🇬🔥 🎥: @LionForgeEnter


Thank you so much and God bless you. I thought Dahomey empire was able to erase all the Yorubas (Oyos) out of Ouidah after the fall of the Oyo empire. I didn’t know that our people survived that horror of the 19th century. @mackee_F You remember this history well. Not only did Oyo empire spread the Yoruba people across the coast of Benin republic, it also spread the Yoruba spirituality. Every great powers that came out of Ife civilisation played crucial roles in expansion of the Yoruba race. It is an unforgivable ignorance and insolence for anybody to rubbish the contribution of the Oyo empire to the body of the Yoruba race.

A Nigerian lady urges Africans to continue and start using mud or clay in building houses and infrastructure, as it has more advantages in Africa than cement and concrete.

A Jewish rabbi: Black people should be slaves and of a lower status because their ancestor Ham was cursed On the other hand, regardless of racism, all non-Jews—whether Black or white—are slaves to the Jews

If she didn’t give you her prime, you shouldn’t give her yours. Play or get played.


I just got called xenophobic for saying you shouldn’t write a book heavily inspired by Yoruba and Nigerian culture if you don’t even know that Z is not in the Yoruba alphabet. . . Ok o

Get that piercing, sneak out for that party, Get that tatoo done, try coke at the func, double text fine shyt, spoil your life you only live once


People don’t understand bottlenecks and how frustrating they can be. Let me give you a real example: Ogun State reconstructed a federal road in collaboration with Lagos State Government. About a year later, truck drivers began parking along the road at the toll section, both illegally and by exploiting grey areas of the law. People complained endlessly about petrol and diesel tankers parking everywhere along the road. The complaints were escalated to the authorities. The Governor directed TRACE (ogun State traffic management body) to remove all trucks from the road. They moved in to remove the trucks. The truck drivers went to court and argued that TRACE has no authority over federal roads. They won. TRACE is appealing the judgement, but the trucks are still there. People are still complaining, saying government has refused to do anything regarding the concerns raised over that spot. To them, government is not doing anything. They don’t know that “people” have defeated government with technicalities. They used technicality to stop the system.






