Akinleye retweeted
A slave trader spent three episodes of Game of Thrones calling Daenerys a bitch and a whore right to her face, because he was positive she didn't speak his language. Turns out it was her family's language. He was speaking a busted, watered-down version of it, and the guy HBO hired to invent it made it that way on purpose.
HBO brought in a linguist named David J. Peterson to turn George R.R. Martin's handful of made-up words into real, working languages. He built High Valyrian as the language of a fallen empire, the one Targaryens were raised on, with eight grammatical cases and four genders.
Then he built the slaver's dialect as whatever's left after a few centuries in a slave city. Most of the cases got stripped out, and the four genders collapsed into two. Peterson has joked that making it meant taking a bat to the pretty, proper original.
So up to this point, every line of Valyrian you'd heard on the show came out of this guy's mouth, in the busted version, while his translator quietly cleaned up his insults into something polite.
When Daenerys finally answers him, that's the first time anyone on Game of Thrones speaks real High Valyrian beyond a stock phrase. It took 24 episodes to get there.
And Peterson slipped one more detail into her line that most people never caught. When she says "a dragon is not a slave," she uses buzdari, the slaver's word for slave, and skips her own word, dohaeriros. That's the same root as Valar Dohaeris, "all men must serve," which is what the season premiere was called. She grabbed his word on purpose, so the second it left her mouth he'd know she caught every insult since the day she walked into his city.
The producers were honestly nervous about shooting it, between how many people they needed on set and how much effects work goes into a dragon that doesn't exist. Alex Graves, in his first time directing the show, got it done in two or three days. They said a movie would've needed eight. And those walls behind her are Ridley Scott's Jerusalem from Kingdom of Heaven, still standing at a studio outside Ouarzazate in Morocco.
Emilia picked up her first Emmy nomination that year.
By the time the dragon opens its mouth, Kraznys has already lost. She beat him with one word from his own vocabulary.
This thing that igbo people didn't record history in anyway is really causing a lot of problems for them.
Cus look at how this one just manufactured a narrative from nowhere.
Akinleye retweeted
Because Nigeria is not how countries should be.
It has never worked anywhere where different civilizations are put together
What you get is a clash of civilisations.
Even within a civilisation, you can't have two or more opposing powers
That's why Austria is not part of Germany
This is totally false.
India is not any melanin of Asia. India is diverse.
And come on, it is completely unintellectual to suggest lack of melanin and ability to build complex tool has a correlation, history proves otherwise. I'll be completely honest with you, that's crazy talk
I'm actually of the opinion that the first Igala dynasty that ended with Ọgala Eri was of Ife
This "royal ancestor descended from the sky" is very specific to Ife
Igala have it with the royal ancestor of the current dynasty Agenapoje
Umueri-Igbos have it with Eri who fled Igala
That is 100% correct
People like to create narratives that are borderline superstitions and fantasy. Real life is not interesting enough I guess.
Thing is, much of Yoruba cultural innovation froze in the 18th century. 19th century was too chaotic
and Colonialism started
Una dey really take this content thing serious o
HR Manager: “Your salary will be delayed until next month.”
Employee: “Sorry, what? Why?”
HR Manager: “There’s an issue with payroll. Management is aware.”
Employee: “But my salary was supposed to come in today. I have bills to pay.”
HR Manager: “I understand, but there’s nothing I can do.”
Employee: “Can I at least get something in writing?”
HR Manager: “We’ll send an email when everything is sorted.”
The employee returned to his desk, disappointed.
He had been counting on that salary to pay his rent, clear a loan, and send money to his family.
Three days later, his manager called him into the office.
Manager: “Why haven’t you completed the new project?”
Employee: “I’ve been working on it, sir.”
Manager: “Then why are you asking for an advance?”
Employee: “Because my salary hasn’t been paid.”
Manager: “That’s not an excuse. Everyone is working despite the situation.”
Employee: “I understand, sir. But I have responsibilities outside this office.”
Manager: “We all do. I expect the project to be completed by Friday.”
The employee nodded and returned to his desk.
That evening, he received an email from HR.
Subject: Salary Payment Update
“Please be informed that salary payments have been temporarily delayed due to administrative issues.”
He saved the email.
The following morning, he received another message from his manager.
Manager: “I need you to attend a meeting with HR at 10 a.m.”
He had no idea what the meeting was about.
When he arrived, HR was already waiting.
HR Manager: “We’ve received a complaint about your attitude toward management.”
Employee: “My attitude?”
HR Manager: “You’ve been asking too many questions about your salary.”
Employee: “I’ve only asked when I’ll be paid.”
HR Manager: “You need to understand that the company is going through a difficult period.”
Employee: “I do understand. But I still have bills to pay.”
Manager: “We need people who are committed to the company.”
Employee: “I’ve been working without my salary for three weeks.”
Manager: “And we appreciate that.”
Employee: “Then why am I being called here instead of being paid?”
Nobody answered.
HR Manager: “We’ll discuss this further.”
The employee left the meeting wondering how asking for his own salary had become a disciplinary issue.
But the following Monday, something happened that changed everything.
His manager called him into the office again.
Manager: “We need to talk about your performance.”
Employee: “What about it?”
Manager: “You’ve failed to meet several targets.”
Employee: “Which targets?”
Manager: “We’ll go through them in the meeting.”
The employee opened his notebook.
He had been keeping records of every missed payment, every email, and every instruction.
He knew something was wrong.
And this time, he was prepared.
This is the person some enemies of Lagos don't want to be governor of Lagos, instead pushing that Rhodes guy
God abeg o
Anyway, nothing can stop Hamzat come 2027
Most of you know this story, but none of you have heard it from me.
Back in September 2018, Femi Hamzat wanted to be Governor of Lagos State. He had thirteen years of public service under Asiwaju and BRF, with the record and backing to win. Then party leaders asked him to step aside for me.
It takes a rare man to put down what he wants without nursing a grudge. Femi shook my hand and five weeks later, agreed to run beside me. I have never forgotten that.
Anyone can read a CV but only the person in the room with a man when the cameras leave can tell you who he really is. For 2,711 days, I have been in that room with him.
When COVID-19 hit, when we faced our hardest weeks, when the Blue and Red Lines ran and when the Lekki Deep Sea Port opened, Femi was there. Long before any ribbon was cut, he was asking the tough questions an engineer asks.
In many states, deputies are kept in reserve. On day one, Femi promised to be the best deputy governor in Lagos history. He kept his word. In seven years, there has not been a single day I wondered whose side he was on. We have had one government, one direction, and one voice.
Lagos runs on a relay system. The baton is never passed to a runner standing still. You run at full speed inside the exchange zone, together, before the pass. That is how Lagos has been governed for 27 years, from Asiwaju to BRF, to Ambode, to me.
Femi is a deputy governor like no other. He built the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge under Fashola, digitized government under Asiwaju and holds a doctorate in engineering. His father served Lateef Jakande. This is in his blood.
Critics say Lagos keeps choosing from the same pool. I say Lagos trains its people. With major projects underway and a master plan stretching to 2052, this is not the time to experiment. What Femi presents today is not a campaign promise cooked up on a bus, it is the next leg of a race we have been running since 1999.
Lagos does not hand the baton to a man standing still. Today, you have seen the man who is already running. Let us move forward together with The Lagos PROMISE.
From the video you already the landlady na useless woman. See her children sef
Physical Altercation Breaks Out Between a Nigerian Landlady And Her Tenant After a Dispute Over The Tenant Having Visitors. The Landlady Had Locked The Tenant Out Before The Situation Escalated, With The Landlady Seen Physically Ass@ulting Her. The Landlady Insisted That No Visitors, Not Even Family Members, Were Allowed In The House 👀
I appreciate what this platform is doing for black Americans, they need it cus their society has been a mess for a while now. They need to talk to themselves as a community.
Akinleye retweeted
Topics we’ve hidden for decades are having their moments in light by the day.
Authored by @AKakanfo
A look into truly what it means to seek and desire “One Nigeria”, its costs, history, and more…
Prior to the Ekiti parapo, no kingdom had "Ekiti" in its name. Yet we all knew we were Ekiti. And when time came to adopt a common name, it happened smoothly.
Same for the larger Yoruba.
When a name is generally adopted is irrelevant to the conception of the Identity itself
Do you know how crazy it is that some of the tribal identities we are so fixated on were engineered by Oyinbo?
Let’s use the “Yoruba peoples” tribal identity as an instance.
The Yoruba tribal peoplehood was artificially engineered for easier colonial administration.
We were not a monolithic group. The Ẹkiti, Òndó, Ìjẹ̀bú, Ẹgba, Ìjẹ̀ṣà, Ìgbómìnà and others were not always “Yorubas.”
If you time-travelled to 1825 and insisted that an Ẹgba person was Yoruba, they might not only be confused — it is likely that they could be offended.
Treating Yoruba as an ancient, primordial tribe is anachronistic and historically indefensible.
It is well documented that the word “Yoruba” was an exonym — a tag given by outsiders. Ahmad Baba of Timbuktu used “Yariba” around 1613–1615 for the Oyo. Northern traders (Hausa and others) applied it specifically to the Oyo peoples.
In fact, there is no evidence of self-use of the word Yoruba by the precolonial Oyo peoples themselves as a broad ethnic label, and none whatsoever among the non-Oyo groups.
During the Kiriji Wars (1877–1893), the Ẹkiti-Parapọ alliance (Ẹkiti, Ìjẹ̀ṣà and allies including elements of Ìjẹ̀bú, Ẹgba, Ìgbómìnà and others) fought the Ibadan military state (heir to Oyo imperial power) for autonomy. It was not Yoruba fighting Yoruba — they were independent nations fighting to protect their sovereignty.
So how did everyone become Yoruba?
The colonialists homogenized all of us by mechanically standardizing the Ọ̀yọ́-Ìbàdàn speech into a uniform, artificial written language called Yorùbá Àjùmọ̀lò.
Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s 1843 Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language (and subsequent Bible work) was based on the Oyo dialect. To save money on printing Bibles and schoolbooks, European recategorized distinct languages as “local dialects.”
Then, through Lord Lugard’s Native Authority system after the 1914 Amalgamation (formalized in the Native Authority Ordinance of 1916 and later revisions), the British state turned this missionary work into a tool of governance.
Our ancestors became stuck in rigid “tribal” census categories, they appointed standardized rulers to collect taxes, and turned sovereign citizens of independent city-states and republics into predictable, manageable colonial subjects.
Yes, this identity is real today. But its reality is relatively modern, administrative, and politically charged, not primordial.
Many of us mistakenly wear our tribal identity as though it were a sacrosanct, eternal or primordial delineation: it is not.
Like the Yoruba tribal categorization, many others are just neat little folders they fostered to organize us.
If it was a bond formed for your enemy’s convenience, then it is malleable enough to be reformed for strategic survival, defense, and collective prosperity.
Who would have imagined. He's even Ekiti
I wonder why he didn't apply the same logic with the Ekiti identity 😂🤣 just a fool
@CryptoMuse01
Why didn't you choose igbo then? You dey dear your in laws and your son Chika?
Akinleye retweeted
Egba man from the 19th century would have grinned hard if you told him that he was an Omo Ufe, Omo Odua or Omo Kaaro Ojire , same for the Oyo, Ijebu, Awori, Ekiti, Ondo, and Ilaje man, etc.
Yoruba identity is anchored on Ife, built and "engineered" by Ife not some white dude.
Do you know how crazy it is that some of the tribal identities we are so fixated on were engineered by Oyinbo?
Let’s use the “Yoruba peoples” tribal identity as an instance.
The Yoruba tribal peoplehood was artificially engineered for easier colonial administration.
We were not a monolithic group. The Ẹkiti, Òndó, Ìjẹ̀bú, Ẹgba, Ìjẹ̀ṣà, Ìgbómìnà and others were not always “Yorubas.”
If you time-travelled to 1825 and insisted that an Ẹgba person was Yoruba, they might not only be confused — it is likely that they could be offended.
Treating Yoruba as an ancient, primordial tribe is anachronistic and historically indefensible.
It is well documented that the word “Yoruba” was an exonym — a tag given by outsiders. Ahmad Baba of Timbuktu used “Yariba” around 1613–1615 for the Oyo. Northern traders (Hausa and others) applied it specifically to the Oyo peoples.
In fact, there is no evidence of self-use of the word Yoruba by the precolonial Oyo peoples themselves as a broad ethnic label, and none whatsoever among the non-Oyo groups.
During the Kiriji Wars (1877–1893), the Ẹkiti-Parapọ alliance (Ẹkiti, Ìjẹ̀ṣà and allies including elements of Ìjẹ̀bú, Ẹgba, Ìgbómìnà and others) fought the Ibadan military state (heir to Oyo imperial power) for autonomy. It was not Yoruba fighting Yoruba — they were independent nations fighting to protect their sovereignty.
So how did everyone become Yoruba?
The colonialists homogenized all of us by mechanically standardizing the Ọ̀yọ́-Ìbàdàn speech into a uniform, artificial written language called Yorùbá Àjùmọ̀lò.
Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s 1843 Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language (and subsequent Bible work) was based on the Oyo dialect. To save money on printing Bibles and schoolbooks, European recategorized distinct languages as “local dialects.”
Then, through Lord Lugard’s Native Authority system after the 1914 Amalgamation (formalized in the Native Authority Ordinance of 1916 and later revisions), the British state turned this missionary work into a tool of governance.
Our ancestors became stuck in rigid “tribal” census categories, they appointed standardized rulers to collect taxes, and turned sovereign citizens of independent city-states and republics into predictable, manageable colonial subjects.
Yes, this identity is real today. But its reality is relatively modern, administrative, and politically charged, not primordial.
Many of us mistakenly wear our tribal identity as though it were a sacrosanct, eternal or primordial delineation: it is not.
Like the Yoruba tribal categorization, many others are just neat little folders they fostered to organize us.
If it was a bond formed for your enemy’s convenience, then it is malleable enough to be reformed for strategic survival, defense, and collective prosperity.