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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica Oct 6

    "I come from a family of girls. We were never raised as women, we were raised as people." Tosin Oshinowo shares her experience being an architect in Nigeria.pic.twitter.com/iqY9TjCMZJ

    12:26 PM - 6 Oct 2018
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      2. TJawiee‏ @toluone Oct 6
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        But why the subtitle though? 🙄

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      3. BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica Oct 7
        Replying to @toluone

        Hi @toluone, we try to subtitle all our videos on social media platforms to give our followers, especially those with hearing difficulties, the best experience. You'll notice all our videos published here are subtitled.

        1 reply 6 retweets 26 likes
      4. TJawiee‏ @toluone Oct 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Thank you.....

        0 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
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      2. CharlyRolihlahla 🇳🇬‏ @charlydadon Oct 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        I know Tosin well and she sure knows her JOB WELL... Very friendly and holds her ground well too. Her workers respect and regard her.. Go Ma'am 👍👍👍😊😊

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Marianne MarpLondon‏ @MarpLondon Oct 7
        Replying to @charlydadon @BBCAfrica

        It is not that her work isn’t good or great but minimalism isn’t African - just because she says so, and certainly not because of “its use”. She worded that wrongly, that is why there is a reaction to her work, and not what the clip intended to be about.. successful women.

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      4. Tosin Oshinowo‏ @oshinowo_tosin Oct 9
        Replying to @MarpLondon @charlydadon @BBCAfrica

        So if minimalism isn’t african what exactly is African ? Is it the vernacular building structures of 400years ago? 68% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. Lagos today has a population estimated at 21million, you think we are all living in mud huts..?

        2 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
      5. Marianne MarpLondon‏ @MarpLondon Oct 9
        Replying to @oshinowo_tosin @charlydadon @BBCAfrica

        Perhaps it is best to move beyond the polarity between the history of Africa and certain European nations. Take Zen for example. It has its own heritage, linage, traditions, consciousness, dogme, culture, language that is specific to its own environment and place in time.

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      6. Marianne MarpLondon‏ @MarpLondon Oct 9
        Replying to @MarpLondon @oshinowo_tosin and

        Why on earth would anyone think that a mega city would built of mud? I don’t even understand this way of thinking. It is undermining African greatness.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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      1. Tosin Oshinowo‏ @oshinowo_tosin Oct 9
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @MarpLondon I stated very clearly ‘it is African in its use’. All cultures irrespective of the fact we live in modern times have very specific ways ‘space’ is appropriated, irrespective of if you live in a rural or urban area.

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      1. kantex‏ @kantex__ Oct 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @wanlov

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        Pls watch and tell me what you think @ReggieRockstone @ponobiom @sarkodie pic.twitter.com/1QN723wZwI
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      1. Moe‏ @Mochievous Oct 9
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @oshinowo_tosin

        😍

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      1. CharlyRolihlahla 🇳🇬‏ @charlydadon Oct 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @taradurotoye

        I know this babe well... And she knows her JOB WELL!!!! But mehn.. Tosin can shout for her works ooo and they always respect and regard her.. Friendly too... 😊😊😊... Go Ma'am... 👍👍👍

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      2. Halfric 🇬🇭n American‏ @lenubienne Oct 6
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        @DeeTweets00 😍

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      2. Afropracticalist‏ @BabsFagbayibo Oct 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        "Afro-minimalism" architecture - that's an interesting term. It's worth learning more about the theories and praxis of the style.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Marianne MarpLondon‏ @MarpLondon Oct 7
        Replying to @BabsFagbayibo @BBCAfrica

        It is called ‘leapfrog’ art history. Apply African or Arab in front of an ism and people think it is something new, and not an old ‘ism that came into existed due to its linage of styles preceding it as reaction to what came before+what happened socio-politically.

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      4. Afropracticalist‏ @BabsFagbayibo Oct 7
        Replying to @MarpLondon @BBCAfrica

        Ok. I don't think the idea here is that 'Afro-minimalism' is something totally new or devoid of any history. The point is that there are thought systems that underlined (precolonial) African architecture (See e.g. this 850yr old palace: https://www.tribuneonlineng.com/130484/ )

        3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Marianne MarpLondon‏ @MarpLondon Oct 8
        Replying to @BabsFagbayibo @BBCAfrica

        Thx for this. I still don’t understand why it is called African minimalism, and not a name that reference to that specific style of palace and follows that heritage. Also it proves that slavery was a part of African history before any Western influence, which often whitewashed.

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      1. jamiesrice‏ @jamiesrice Oct 15
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @blackrepublican

        Her work is amazing and she is always wearing supercool glasses

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      1. Marianne MarpLondon‏ @MarpLondon Oct 7
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        ??? Her architectural style is african because of it use?????So a cup of tea brewed in Greenland is Greenlandic because of it use? Nonsense.

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