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Author • Journalist • Reporting for @Spearhead_Af • Long live the Revolution! 🌍
Dec 30, 2025 4 tweets 2 min read
On the eve of August 14, 1791, 200 enslaved Africans gathered in secret in a place called Bois Caïman in what is now Haiti and performed a vodou ritual.

The following day, they rebeled, and were never defeated until Haiti became the first independent black republic in 1804. Battle of San Domingo, also known as the Battle for Palm Tree Hill While the full details of what really happened that night may never be known, what is known is what was awoken in these Africans, where that knowledge system came from, and what happened next. Andre Normil's 1990 painting, "Ceremonie du Bois-Caiman."
Jun 7, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Religious extremism is not a problem. Religious extremism is a SYMPTOM. Nasir El Rufai is not an extremist. He is a righteous, humble, faithful servant... of his death cult. Image There is no shortage of groups scrambling for humanity's throat. But in the domain of cold, calculated malevolence... few hold a candle to the "religion of peace".

For peace is indeed the goal, a peace built on the butchered remains of those who would not submit.
May 12, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Her name was Deborah. She was a Christian student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto State, Nigeria, beaten to death and burned today by her male Muslim peers for "blasphemy". The footage is too heartbreaking to share... Image While I am very grateful for the overwhelmingly positive responses to this tweet, let me expressly state right now that I do not support any form of bigotry towards Muslims anywhere, nor am I amused by the use of this tweet by some as an ad for Christianity...