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1. Wuhan Sewage Document Dump (Ignore the Smell)
58 Pages - Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project
https://t.co/AyEx8UqqVK
2. Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project (Financed by the Technical Assistance Special Fund)
1062 pages of
3. ADB projects:
https://t.co/mV8BznlCNz
ADB documents:
https://t.co/oMwyTeNn6f
ADB
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5. Can't download this, anyone
58 Pages - Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project
https://t.co/AyEx8UqqVK
2. Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project (Financed by the Technical Assistance Special Fund)
1062 pages of
3. ADB projects:
https://t.co/mV8BznlCNz
ADB documents:
https://t.co/oMwyTeNn6f
ADB
4.
5. Can't download this, anyone
This one does need to be reported.
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Because this is totally the compassionate way to address someone contempalting suicide on Christmas.
Literally like 2 tweets before her calling me a creep. https://t.co/3avVm003Lw
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Because this is totally the compassionate way to address someone contempalting suicide on Christmas.
Literally like 2 tweets before her calling me a creep. https://t.co/3avVm003Lw
Thanks for taking those screen shots that I forgot to take "homie" https://t.co/lmEYvbTvku pic.twitter.com/wFCR13dhr1
— John Wesley (@thepalemoonlt) December 27, 2020
I can't but help coming back to this thread. I owe Uncle Gbenro a bottle of cognac for it.
Let me build on it a little...
Prior to when Carlos Zappa renamed Ahaba to "Asaba", ndị Oshimịrị were quite an intertwined people who knew their kin.
As such, you could not "kpa alo" in Ahaba without a priest from Nri present.
This kinship is seen in the names. Onicha Mịrị, Onicha Ụgbo, Onicha Olona, as examples, the first being the great market town, the last two being on the west side of the great river, Ori mịrị...
Then Carlos Zappa came, and renamed Ahaba to Asaba, while TE Dennis renamed Onicha to Onitsha.
A hypothetical child, let's call him Chukwudebe Isichei, born exactly 120 years ago today in Asaba, knew himself as being Onye Oshimili, as did his cousin across the great river.
The year Isichei was born, a strange company, the Royal Niger Company, without his elders' consent or even knowledge, passed over "ownership" of his village to the British Crown, and the cartographers went to work.
Isichei became a "Southern Nigerian" from Onitsha Division.
Then on Isichei's 14th birthday, his Southern #Nigeria was "amalgamated" with a strange land called Northern Nigeria, and he was told that himself and those people whom he had not much in common with, except perhaps the colour of their skin, were now from the same country.
Let me build on it a little...
Prior to when Carlos Zappa renamed Ahaba to "Asaba", ndị Oshimịrị were quite an intertwined people who knew their kin.
A short note on ethnicity.
— Gb\xe9nr\xf3 Ad\xe9gbol\xe1 \u0646 (@GbenroAdegbola) December 27, 2020
A lot of these labels are mere identity. Useful labels though.
Identity is important
Many don\u2019t know their own parents were not even born Nigerians.
Most were a strange, now defunct nationality called British West African.
As such, you could not "kpa alo" in Ahaba without a priest from Nri present.
This kinship is seen in the names. Onicha Mịrị, Onicha Ụgbo, Onicha Olona, as examples, the first being the great market town, the last two being on the west side of the great river, Ori mịrị...
Then Carlos Zappa came, and renamed Ahaba to Asaba, while TE Dennis renamed Onicha to Onitsha.
A hypothetical child, let's call him Chukwudebe Isichei, born exactly 120 years ago today in Asaba, knew himself as being Onye Oshimili, as did his cousin across the great river.
The year Isichei was born, a strange company, the Royal Niger Company, without his elders' consent or even knowledge, passed over "ownership" of his village to the British Crown, and the cartographers went to work.
Isichei became a "Southern Nigerian" from Onitsha Division.
Then on Isichei's 14th birthday, his Southern #Nigeria was "amalgamated" with a strange land called Northern Nigeria, and he was told that himself and those people whom he had not much in common with, except perhaps the colour of their skin, were now from the same country.