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What is it Like to be Black and Travel to 43 Countries across 5 Continents?

I’ve ridden in the back of cabs through Boko Haram territory, yet still felt more afraid of getting shot while driving in the United States

18 min readDec 28, 2020

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What is it Like to be Black and Travel to 43 Countries across 5 Continents?

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How Post-Truth Politics Destroyed the United Kingdom

Yet, those same right leaning commentators also interweave a history of conquest, resilience and overcoming impossible odds

5 min readNov 8, 2022

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How Post-Truth Politics Destroyed the United Kingdom

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Existing When Black— How “Woke” Became A Race

If you feel like you’re seeing too many Black people, then what you’re actually saying is you would prefer a world that is as White as you…

6 min readOct 19, 2022

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Existing When Black— How “Woke” Became A Race

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How Do Black Britons Feel About the Passing of Queen Elizabeth II?

One of the most common misconceptions about the British Empire is that it ended. Any high school history book will tell you that the…

6 min readSep 30, 2022

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How Do Black Britons Feel About the Passing of Queen Elizabeth II?

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The Social Power of Black Conservatism and What it Means For All of Us

For the first time in its history, the number of people subscribing to Netflix dropped this year. Spitball theories as to why vary greatly…

5 min readMay 18, 2022

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The Social Power of Black Conservatism and What it Means For All of Us

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The Character Assassination of Jada Pinkett-Smith by the Cowards on Social Media

I told myself I wasn’t going to write about The Slap, and I had two very specific reasons for this. One was practical, the other a bit more…

8 min readApr 19, 2022

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The Character Assassination of Jada Pinkett-Smith by the Cowards on Social Media

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The Mainstream Rise of the Anti Anti-Racist

They actively manipulate situations to destroy people’s lives for their own gain

7 min readApr 5, 2022

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The Mainstream Rise of the Anti Anti-Racist

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How Should You Feel About the War in Ukraine if You’re Black?

So let me just get one quick disclaimer out of the way — my perspective on the war in Ukraine is not exactly theoretical. I have been to…

6 min readMar 9, 2022

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How Should You Feel About the War in Ukraine if You’re Black?

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Endemic Game — the Fall of the Global Community?

On the 24th of March 2022 it is expected that the UK (or at least England) will let all legal enforcements surrounding Covid-19 expire…

6 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Endemic Game — the Fall of the Global Community?

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Climate Change and Black Folk — an Inconvenient Complicated Truth

Climate change denial as a practice, is rapidly running out of runway. Flat out refusing to acknowledge the impact that our species has…

7 min readNov 27, 2021

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Climate Change and Black Folk — an Inconvenient Complicated Truth

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Bayo Awesu

Bayo Awesu

I write short essays about race, politics and identity. Asking scary questions. UK based. Speculative and Sci-fi novels cooking.

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