Ra’phael Davis
@theafrodiplomat
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Fulbright Scholar | PhD Candidate in Political Science @ OSU | Africa Working Group at Black Professionals in International Affairs | Afrodiplomat
Columbus, OH
Joined December 2013
Pep Talk: I must win. but if I don’t win, I must show courage in my effort.
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Rewriting is writing Reading is writing Plotting is writing Daydreaming is writing If you feel like you’re stalled, I see you. It’s all work.
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Ahead of an upcoming feature in Ascent Magazine, I’m sharing a few photos from the shoot. I appreciated the team’s openness to cultural expression outside of standard suit wear—it was important to me to show up this way. #afrodiplomat #nigeria
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If 2025 has taught me anything, it's the necessity of stating what needs to be said immediately. While I've been actively working on this since 2020—a major shift from my earlier communication style—this year has taken that practice to a whole new level. A quick, friendly
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Grateful for time today with the Liberian community and African Youth League in Columbus. Across the continent and here in the U.S., Black communities have been navigating struggle, survival, and ambition for generations—often in parallel ways. It always makes me wonder what we
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St. Patrick’s Day.
December has Christmas. January has New Year. February has Valentine’s Day. What does your birth month have?
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I have beef with my office chair. Which is such an academic thing to say. But I am definitely replacing this rubbish 😂
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Yoruba
One language you wish you could speak fluently?
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I just laughed so hard lol
Etiquette rules for PhDs: – Never mention your PhD under any circumstances. – For instance, if you get a PhD, don't celebrate it online. It is indecent. – Don’t even pursue a PhD (especially if you’re a woman). - Never assert that you are particularly knowledgeable in your
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16 people lost their lives on their way to NYSC… it’s high time NYSC stops posting corps members to the North.
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I’m not Muslim enough because I refuse to side with your injustice? I’m not Muslim enough because I see through the politics you’re playing & masking with Islam? I’m not Muslim enough because I’m supporting Peter Obi? You people are funny & stupid at the same time. I am a
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Excited that the organization always keeps us up to date on what’s going on. This organization has been a key player in my professional development. ❤️
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I dey scratch my head for wonder how we move from U.S. ‘concern’ about Nigeria, to people shouting Christian genocide, to saying farmer-herder wahala na cover-up, then back to terrorism talk, then giving one Igbo man life sentence, and now all this anti-Igbo talk everywhere. God
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Ah! Warsaw Shire is thee poet. I have a poem with a very similar message to this.
later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere. --Warsan Shire.
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Today has been very writing heavy, but I’d say I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished.
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If you know a professor in Lagos who might be interested in adding a virtual exchange component to a class they plan to teach, especially in Fall 2026, please let me know. I am considering teaching Peacebuilding or American Foreign Policy with an emphasis on Public Diplomacy, and
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