Those who scream "No one is above the law" the most are usually the biggest perpetrators of breaking the law
This is very necessary. The #FilaYoruba should not be hijacked and renamed icapu in 20 years time.
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Fold it. Fan it. Twist it. Make it yours.
Gele is having a fashion moment beyond tradition, and we’re here for every interpretation.
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Gele and moussor is not the same.. Moussor just means headscarf in Wolof/Pulaar , while Gele is a type of headscare that is uniquely not belonging to anyone in Senegal. Please leave us out of this.
Sincerely,
Senegalese people
Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones broke my heart. I loved them so much and was in denial for a very long time. They are the reason I couldn't bring myself to celebrate exceptional athletes like Usain Bolt
Lance Armstrong says doping cost him $111 million. A $100,000 check he wrote without knowing where it would end up saved his family.
He didn't pick Uber. He picked a friend.
In 2012 he lost his seven Tour de France titles. In 2013 he confessed on Oprah. Then the sponsors, the insurers and the US government came for the money.
In the video below, in 2018, he adds it up on camera: "Loss of guaranteed income, legal fees and settlements, it came to 111 million bucks." The government alone had sued him for $100 million. He settled for $5 million.
Then the other side of the ledger. Around 2009 an old friend, Chris Sacca, started a venture fund called Lowercase Capital and asked him to invest. He put in $100,000. "I didn't even know that he did Uber." The fund's biggest bet went in at a $3.7 million valuation.
What's the $100,000 worth now? "$10, $20, $30, $40, $50 million? It's one of those. It's a lot. It's saved our family."
Five months after that interview, Uber went public.
My take: the best trade of his life wasn't a race or a sponsor deal. It was a check he barely thought about, to someone he trusted, in a company he'd never heard of. Most people's best investment looks just as boring when they make it.
Did Armstrong earn his second fortune, or does luck like that make the first one too easy to forget?
This person @jcokechukwu has been pushing the cultural theft of the Gele and seems to be involved in the sponsored articles in many media houses to rename it to ichafu @grok
As seen on ThisDay and TheSun.
Pick up a copy of the Sun and ThisDay if you’re anywhere in Nigeria. Send to your parents who aren’t online and promise them we won’t let our cultural identity die in our time.
ThisDay Link 👇🏾
thisdaylive.com/2026/10/16/i…
Make Ichafu Great Again #MIGA 💪😎
That Irene artistry lady must be taught a very sound lesson on unprincipled behaviour. She should be the scapegoat here. The deliberate cultural appropriation, the intellectual property theft and even the rebranding of some of her old Gele works.
A very dishonest human being
IamReadyToDive retweeted
Last time I wrote about Gélé and for balance, I am writing about ICHAFU.
Apparently, while I was here thinking that ichafu was a French scarf appropriated by the Ibos, I never knew it was actually a handkerchief, according to a report by Northcote Thomas, a British anthropologist and psychical researcher who wrote about Ibo ichafu in 1913. 😳
Silly me thinking it was a scarf, instead of a handkerchief 😂
Anyways.
This is so beautiful, and I honestly wonder why they are not proud of it, that they had to drag Gélé as their own.
Well, as for me.
This is part of our history and cultural heritage. It is something worth preserving, celebrating, and passing on to the next generation.
I love it. ❤️
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Gèlè is Gèlè. Names are how a culture keeps credit for what it made. Lose the name, and in one generation nobody remembers where it came from. #GeleIsGele
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Your grandmother is carrying handbag also, i guess that one to is indigenous to you.
Cultureless people
IamReadyToDive retweeted
This argument is trash. The fact that the modern pan-Yorùbá identity consolidated over time does not mean the people now encompassed by that identity materialized under colonialism.
If you want to be historically precise, fine. Call them Awori, Ẹ̀gbá, Ìjẹ̀bú, Ọ̀yọ́, Ifẹ̀, Ìjẹ̀ṣà, etc. These people, their ancestral communities, political institutions, and territories all predate colonialism, and they share a common civilizational root in Ilé-Ifẹ̀.
All you’ve done is move the conversation from the umbrella identity to the individual groups within it. You haven’t abolished indigeneity.
An identity having a history does not make it a colonial invention, and colonialism did not invent the concept of a people having a homeland.
Lagos is Yorùbáland.
No shit, Sherlock. Of course not, China won't build Nigeria for us, and that's been evident ever since trade relationship got stronger.
What the Chinese have done however is stop Nigerian traders from exploiting Nigerians.
I see some Nigerians defending China’s exploitation of Nigeria, and I laugh.
China will never build Nigeria for us. To the world, you are either an immigrant expected to remain grateful or a Nigerian expected to fix your own country.
The moment we understand this, we will stop complaining, stop making excuses and start building a nation that cannot be exploited.
No foreign power is coming to save Nigeria. We either build Nigeria or watch others take everything.
This is the kind of loss I like for Arsenal. Too many weaknesses exposed , major one being the lack of speed. Why I wasn't happy letting go of Martinelli without a worthy replacement
RIP Olu Jacobs. Only also just found out that Yomi Adeyemi Wilson who played his daughter on the Third eye is also late 🙏
I couldn't stand Emery as Arsenal manager. You could just tell he was not exceptional tactically. The 4-1 loss to Chelsea was the breaking point for me.