2 months ago, we brought GoLemon’s operations to a close.
There’s a lot from those 30 months to write about, so I’m starting with an essay about org charts, the shape of our Growth team & how the work kept changing the team we thought we needed 👉🏾 uberjj.substack.com/p/the-or…
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Basquiat?
It's Asake we want.
Kid Cudi will play Jean-Michel Basquiat in 'JEAN'
Written, directed, and starring @KiDCuDi, the film is set to begin filming in 2027
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Six years later, not much has changed. Same government, same playbook of fear and intimidation.
Today, right here at the Lekki Toll Gate, citizens gathered peacefully to honor the lives lost six years ago during EndSARS. And how did the authorities respond? By firing tear gas at us.
Let that sink in.
Six years after a generation cried out for basic dignity, safety, and accountability in policing, a peaceful memorial is still met with an unprovoked tear gas attack?
The message is loud and clear, they are still terrified of remembrance, they are still terrified of accountability, and they are still terrified of YOU speaking up.
Expressing grief and sympathy is not a crime. Peaceful assembly and solemn reflection should not be met with state brutality and repression.
Effective governance is not about silencing the streets. It is about building a system that listens, that protects, that includes and that provides for everyone.
To every young person and resident carrying the vision of a better Lagos, never forget that your voice is powerful, that your vote carries your voice and that the ballot is the vehicle through which you can speak loudest and change the story.
We remember, We rise.
FD
Ó Ti Yá.
#EndSARS #Lagos #FunsoDoherty #OTiYa #NDC
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Congratulations to @OpeAdedeji_ and Svetlana Chigozie Onye, two Nigerian writers shortlisted for the £1,000 2026 4thWrite Short Story Prize, run by 4th Estate and the Guardian for unpublished writers of colour in the UK and Ireland! ✍🏾 🏆 brittlepaper.com/2026/10/two…
The National Theatre was built in 1976.
Recently, it's been beautifully renovated and home to several outstanding events and concerts.
We get to enjoy this because the original design was intentionally grand, world-class, and built to inspire wonder.
50 years gone; and in 200, it'll still be a superb location.
One wonders: how many structures built in the past 50 years can make this boast?
I think the divide over this ad boils down to aspiration vs. realism.
Apple ads typically appeal to our aspirational selves: "this isn’t me today, but I hope it is tomorrow."
With HomeView, Apple seems to be switching it up to: “wow, I feel seen.”
And the execution almost feels like a Safdie brothers' production. Frantic pacing, overlapping convos, and the exaggerated chaos of everyday family life.
Both approaches can work imo, but we’ve become so accustomed to Apple selling us the aspirational version of our lives that seeing it reflect our actual reality feels somewhat jarring.
Why I think the Homeview launch commercial was the weirdest I've seen from Apple in a long time
Full podcast episode: youtu.be/VwD3D2lgIWU?si=FP52…
I know Hanie is being tongue-in-cheek, but this is how the Ivorian writer, Ahmadou Kourouma, would write sometimes 😂
He'd deliberately retain Malinke's syntax, but write in French.
Also reminds me of Achebe's "Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it."
Ilorin had a booming textile industry as far back as 1800. It then evolved to be one of the major centres for the manufacture + trade of aṣọ òkè in Yorubaland.
Sányán, one of the three main forms of aṣọ òkè was, and still is, treasured in Ilorin. It’s the brown + white ofi you sometimes see at weddings and ceremonies.
The silk from authentic sányán comes from the cocoons of Anaphe caterpillars. But overharvesting of the trees they depend on means authentic sányán may soon become a thing of the past.
This piece (h/t @hey_sesan) looks at aṣọ òkè from a different and interesting angle ✨
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