Femi Oke
@FemiOke
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Journalist, Co-Founder the diverse moderators bureau, @hereandnow reporter. Tweeting about the world with a British accent.
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Last Seen Profiles
Dark and lovely: This viral picture shows faces Indians rarely get to see in the media
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Open Hair Surgery!
#TessicaBrown
’s hair made it. It’s a modern day miracle.
#gorrilagluegirl
no more. 😅
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@sadiyahamb
SAME! I'm a huge fan of the Twilight Zone and shocked that I didn't know the Emmett Till connection.🤯 a a. .
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"No Justice No Peace!"
This baby girl is a warrior, marching for a future where she feels safe.
#GeorgeFloydProstests
ht
@RichelleCarey
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I once persuaded my best friend to take a day trip to
@AuschwitzMuseum
. We're both journalists so she wasn't totally horrified, but we both were by the end of the day. Every human in the world should visit. If you can't, please follow the museum on Twitter for
#Auschwitz75
.
We once again wish to ask all of you for your support. Please, help
@Auschwitzmuseum
reach 1 million followers for
#Auschwitz75
on Jan 27, 2020.
RT, spread the word, let
@Twitter
community know about our account where every day we educate about the history of
#Auschwitz
.
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My first generation, 29-year-old Nigerian-American Uber driver doesn't know about Fela Kuti or any of the Kutis for that matter. 😲
We're now playing some on Spotify, because I'm on a mission. 😀
Is it even legal to be Nigerian and not know Fela? 🤷🏾♀️
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@yusufmym1090
@AJStream
You are wrong. To avoid sexual harassment men should keep their hands to themselves.
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Immigrant Matters: Najat Belkacem, formerly a shepherd girl in Morocco is now the Minister of Education in France.👏
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Making the link between the
#Coronavirus
#Democracy
&
#China
. A compelling thread from one of Hong Kong's best known protesters & a former
@AJStream
guest.
[The outbreak has been more than just
#WuhanVirus
spread]
1/ By covering up the severity of pandemic with force & fear,
#China
has turned whole crisis into the Chernobyl disaster of the 21st century. China's still clamping down on
#coronavirus
coverage as cases surge day by day.
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Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers.
http://t.co/iESOHzr2BH
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@yusufmym1090
@AJStream
This is the foolish answer men always give when trying to explain away sexual harassment. Check yourself, not what I'm wearing.
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An "unreserved apology" from Tafadzwa Mugwadi, ZANU-PF Director of Information & Publicity for "using uncouth language" and losing his "tamper" during the
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
episode of
@AJStream
.
Apology noted.
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Sending this bathroom selfie to my Nigerian mum. She’d be so proud to know I’m MCing the
#HeroinesOfHealth
2023 Awards Gala Dinner at
#WD2023
… Africa edition. 🌍
I might need a wider lens for my Gele.
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How it started:
My first live
@AJStream
broadcast in May 2013.
How it ended:
My final live
@AJStream
broadcast in July 2023.
Thanks to my colleagues, Stream guests and all the
@AJEnglish
viewers for the best decade of my career. 🙏🏾
Pictured with
@mmbilal
&
@YoungRJeremy
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My brothers! The Chale Wote Street Art Festival, brings art, music, dance & performances to the streets of James Town, Ghana. Via Yaw Pare.
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Nothing to see here, just Swedish cops on vacation in NY breaking up a fight.
http://t.co/KhruXPU0ZQ
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The TV replay of the latest
@AJStream
episode first streamed live August 18 via YouTube. During the
#ZimbabweanLivesMatter
discussion a guest used uncouth language. The comment has been edited due to TV profanity regulations. The original unedited show can still be viewed online.
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I was listening to my favourite US media show today, when I heard myself hosting the
@AJStream
. That was unexpected! So glad that
@onthemedia
featured
@HEBobiwine
, his story and work is extraordinary.
#BobiWineThePeoplesPresident
Bobi Wine, a Ugandan opposition politician, is the subject of a documentary nominated for this year’s Oscars. Brooke speaks with
@HEBobiwine
and
@bwayomoses
about the immense trials they faced making this film:
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Nigerians you asked & we listened.
Thursday's
@AJStream
will focus on the
#EndSARS
#EndSarsBrutality
#ENDSARSNOW
campaign.
Who's critical to this conversation?
Please tweet your guest suggestions using
#AJStream
.
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Coming up
@AJStream
these talented mini-musicians 😍... and did I ever mention that
@HEBobiwine
is on the
@AJStream
today? 😉 Join us &
@laktarr001
, Deputy Director of
@AfricaCDC
at 1930GMT
@AJEnglish
.
Some other ghetto kids doing a cover for our song,
#CoronavirusAlert
. Brought back memories of how we started. Little
#NubianLi
is definitely taking this seriously.
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Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon, Humanitarian, Motivational Speaker AND
#gorillagluegirl
's new BFF
@DrMichaelKObeng
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Watching this
#Tigray
report by
@nimaelbagir
& the one question that keeps going through my mind ...
WHO DOES THIS?
Heartbreaking accounts from victims reveal how rape is used as a weapon of war in the Tigray region of Ethiopia
@nimaelbagir
reports
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When asked why she never married the President of Taiwan replied "I won't buy the whole pig just for a sausage." 😂
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Poor farmer put his son through college. On graduation day, son said father was his biggest pride. Via
@ViralNova
.
http://t.co/sevn1LA0p9
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Take a scroll. Almost 100-Year-Old Pictures Show How Amazing The Traditional Rwandan Hairstyle Was
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Introducing
@DrMichaelKObeng
who gave his plastic surgery expertise pro-bono to save
#TessicaBrown
's hair. Kudos for the research he put in, and for knowing this kind of publicity was worth doing Open Hair Surgery for free.
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“This photo is better than a Norman Rockwell painting, in what it communicates." — Michael Brown
HT
@JHockenberry
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Earlier in DC ...
Uber Driver: Are you British?! 😳
Me: I’m British and Nigerian.
Uber Driver: I prefer Nigerians. 😁
Me: It’s good to have options. 😆 🇳🇬 🇬🇧
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How Old?! At 191 years old, Mama Esifiho may be Nigeria's oldest woman alive -
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Starting the week like —
Me: Girl in the boots
The Week: Dad in nice trainers
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Last night at the DC premiere of Michael Moore's new documentary
#Fahrenheit119
. Man in the audience asks me why I'm sitting in the reserved section. When I told him I was press he said: "Thank you for all the work you do!" cc
@MMFlint
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"We have big men as opposed to big institutions, and so the big men override the institutions." —
@JoelSsenyonyi
talking to the
@ajstream
about African leaders and accountability. Full instagram live conversation right here:
#UgandaDecide2021
#Uganda
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When the Opening Ceremony of
#WD2023
gives you an arena full of 6,000 gender equality advocates I couldn’t resist celebrating our solidarity with an audience wave. 😁
🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🏻 🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🏻 🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🏻 🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼 🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🏻 🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🏻 🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🏻 🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼🙌🏻 🙌🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼
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Greetings President
@KagutaMuseveni
! It's been a long time since we last chatted. I'd be delighted if you could join the
@AJStream
live this evening. Please DM if you have time in your schedule. Thank you, Femi.
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Fight!
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Best cameo appearance by a cuppa tea.👏🏾
#BobiWine
kicking back with a drink that magically appeared during the
@AJStream
as he tackled your questions.
Catch the full
@HEBobiwine
#Coronavirus
&
#Uganda
episode today
@AJEnglish
at 19:30g/10:30p Kampala Time.
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Something fun for the weekend:
I’d definitely take the blue pill.
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When you really don't want wedding guests.
Couple Gets Married On Mount Everest After Trekking For 3 Weeks.
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It was bound to happen. My DC Uber driver today was called Femi.
Femi: Hello my sister! 😃
Femi: Hello my brother! 😁
This is only novel because I live in DC. If I lived in Nigeria I would be so over meeting Femis. They're everywhere.😆
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#SCOOP
!
#BREAKING
!
#EXCLUSIVE
!
We promised you BTS
@AJStream
secrets in our new Instagram Live series &
@karinasaidi
delivered. Watch my face when she mentions a guest we're hoping to have on a future show. 👇🏾 Keep your 🤞🏾 everybody!
#BobiWine
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YOUR profile picture doesn’t look that bad, it’s just your attitude that’s hideously ugly. Be nice to strangers. Just my advice to you.
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Thinking about my late Dad on
#FathersDay
He took me shopping for LIVE chickens in London, (😱🐔)taught me how to eat ground rice and red stew & okra with my hands without burning my fingers, LOVED
@AJEnglish
and only ever watched "the news" on TV. Good memories!
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@AidanRGallagher
@LewisPughFDN
Aidan, I appreciate how effortless it is for you to see how climate action & social justice are connected. Full disclosure ... immediately after our chat I retweeted one of your
#BlackLivesMatter
posts.😊✊🏾
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"JOURNALISM 101
If someone says it's raining and another person says it is dry, it is NOT your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out of the window and see which is the truth!!!"
Journalist
@sherryamin13
, Mistress of
#shade
🙌🏾
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The
#BettyWhiteChallenge
is the most wholesome challenge circulating on Twitter right now. It's thoughtful, nobody's going to get maimed or hurt, parents & teachers will approve ... how on earth will it gain traction? 🤔🙂
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Taking a walking stick so it doesn’t appear in photos, then not giving it back.
#fail
🙄
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson meeting with President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, at Downing Street on Thursday.
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“We’re going to need a bigger bonnet!” -
Robing Room staff
@unibirmingham
when they spotted my hairstyle last week. 😆
An Afro-tastic bonnet was found, just in time for my honorary doctorate ceremony. 😅
#UniversityofBirmingham
#UoBGraduation
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Hot Mama! I've been sorting through old pictures of my mother. What a sophisticated secondary school student she was. 😮
#FlashbackFriday
#Nigeria
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Auditioning to be an ex-boyfriend!
Watch where the 🐍comes from. 👀
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You’re invited!
My house
Thursday 1930GMT
@AJEnglish
The all new
@AJStream
Home Edition
Slippers optional
Photography:
@kscorriveau
Lighting & Set Design: Michael Corripio
#Coronavirus
#Lockdown
#QuarantineLife
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Booked my date an Uber. Female driver waits for me to leave & hits on my man.
Should I give her 0 ⭐️for making me 😡or 5 ✨ for good taste?🤔
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@azzleprock
@yusufmym1090
@AJStream
I started the conversation. I shouldn't stop if I don't like the responses. Now I'm passing on the baton for others to weigh in.
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You won’t believe your ears. Here’s
@yemialadee
speaking fluent South London
@AJStream
. 😲
Be sure to catch the Bonus Edition of The Stream for the exclusive behind the scenes chat I had with
#YemiAlade
after her live appearance. Watch Friday, October 8
@AJEnglish
at 19:30GMT.
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"To live from one oxygen cylinder to another oxygen cylinder, we can't just live like that" -
@drkamnakakkar
A poignant plea from a doctor on the frontlines of
#Covid19inIndia
. Full
@AJStream
episode including
@syedzafarBJP
&
@VidyaKrishnan
now online.
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My mum used to thread my hair like this when I was a kid. It's NOT a
#Coronavirus
-shaped hairdo, it's traditional
#African
hair threading. Props to the hairdresser for some audacious rebranding! However, let's not forget the true roots of this beautiful hair style.
#naturalhair
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If only I had a time machine & could go back seven years, I'd have a completely different conversation with Aung San Suu Kyi.
Photo: Making history at
#UNGA
. I moderated Suu Kyi's first UN panel after she was released from house arrest.
#FlashbackFriday
September 2012, NYC.
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On a recent flight man next to me spent entire time trying to rub his leg against mine.😡Share your
#FlyingWhileFemale
story with
@AJStream
.
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"Do you work for an airline?" - my Uber driver earlier today after checking out my work clothes.
Got me thinking. Maybe I should start AFRO Airlines, connecting cities all over the African continent directly, speedily & affordably with no transfers via Europe. 🤔
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U.S. kids will study two civil rights movements in the future. One in the 60s & the one that's happening right now.
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My interpretation? Africans are now teasing the BBC & making up proverbs. 😉
Today’s African
#proverb
: A patient that can swallow food makes the nurse doubtful. A Malagasy proverb sent by Jacob Dior Macueng, Rumbek, South Sudan.
How do you interpret this proverb?
Illustration by George Wafula ✏️
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"I got death threats, and I'm a divorced woman with two kids ... there is collateral damage."
Journalist
@AprilDRyan
discussing the downside of becoming famous for covering
@POTUS
& the
@WhiteHouse
.
Photo:
@GWtweets
#BlackWomenintheWhiteHouse
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Current status? Wondering why we can't have a 2-day work week & 5-day weekend.
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Femi & Femi!
Chillaxin’
@AJStream
with
@Femiakuti
before today’s show.
We’re live at 1930GMT
@AJEnglish
.
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The most controversial
#NobelPeacePrize
Laureates.
Who's top of your list of underserving
#NobelPrize
winners? Ethiopia's Prime Minister
#AbiyAhmed
& Myanmar's
#AungSanSuuKyi
are contenders. Here's
@follybahAJE
&
@baysontheroad
on the
@AJStream
with the best of the worst.
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I've seen a lot of terrible video over the last few days. This one is the worst.
All the parties involved in the Israel-Hamas conflict should be forced to watch this video, then tell Nadine how they're going to make her life better.
#Gaza
#Israel
"I don't know what to do."
A 10-year-old Palestinian girl breaks down while talking to MEE after Israeli air strikes destroyed her neighbour's house, killing 8 children and 2 women
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Israel
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If this TV gig doesn’t work out Farmer Femi has a nice ring to it.
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Embracing my African Aunty status at the
#PowerHerPotential
@BRACworld
#WD2023
event.
Salamah and Ashiah, two participants of the BRAC Uganda youth programme talking to me about what empowerment means to them. The audience was transfixed as they shared their stories. 🙌🏾
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Honing my interview skills. This guest almost broke me. Monosyllabic. Ignored my questions. Sigh. I tried!
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That smile! What a sacrifice to make. My heart hurts. Thank you Dr Alfa Saadu for caring. 🙏🏾
Top NHS Doctor Alfa Saadu Dies From
#Coronavirus
After Returning From Retirement
#NHSheroes
#PleaseStayHome
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Such a great hashtag:
#TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou
Photo ht
@SiphileHlwatika
Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa
http://t.co/KBGUQze3LM
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4-year-old me with a new baby sister, and my mum looking elegant in her "don't tell anyone I'm wearing a wig again wig"
#ThrowbackThursday
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"There are some civil liberties that are being taken from Muslim women" —
@IbtihajMuhammad
activist, olympian & entrepreneur on why she's campaigning against the
#FranceHijabBan
.
More on the controversial law & the
#HandsOffMyHijab
movement live
@AJStream
@AJEnglish
at 19:30g.
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So many
#EndSARS
allegations & atrocities from
#Nigeria
have appeared in my Twitter timeline. So much blood, tears & pain, but this video shook me deeply. Turn the sound up.
#EndPoliceBrutality
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Today
@AJStream
we’ll pay tribute to Canadian-Somali journalist
#HodanNalayeh
, who died in an al-Shabab attack in
#Somalia
last week. Did her work have an impact on you? Tweet us your thoughts or record a video comment by clicking on this link:
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Dear
#Nigeria
,
We have a date, please save it. Monday, October 19 at 8:30pm Abuja time/19:30GMT
#EndSARS
#EndPoliceBrutality
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Dear headline writers you are giving me an ulcer.😬
"Harry and Meghan could 'move to Africa' after birth of baby"
Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!😱
FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME
#AfricasNotACountry
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Ethiopian Twitter family, standby for today's
@AJStream
Youtube discussion. Talking about
#Ethiopia
and
#OromoProtests
in a few minutes.
Watch Live at 19:30GMT ▶️
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If you don't have an Instagram account yet, today is the day to get one. This is an
#EndSARS
#EndPoliceBrutality
conversation with
@Femiakuti
you don't want to miss. Today at 9:30p Abuja Time/20:30 GMT.
Watch LIVE via
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Current status?
Femi Oke
DOCTOR OF LETTERS honoris causa
Thank you
@unibirmingham
&
@Lord_Bilimoria
! You made me realise that despite working in news and journalism for decades I can still be surprised. Proud to be an alum of the great
#UniversityofBirmingham
.
#UoBGraduation
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How it started, July 1988:
BA English Literature Degree Graduation with my mum.
How it’s going, July 2022:
Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree Congregation with
@Lord_Bilimoria
, Chancellor of
@unibirmingham
.
#UoBGraduation
#UniversityofBirmingham
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