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Tayo Aluko

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My art is my weapon

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Keshi Ndoria Makridis & Kirigo Ndoria Mortensen read "Greatness" In a Time of Covid in hallway Sheng
YouTube video by Tayo Aluko, Writer, Actor Keshi Ndoria Makridis & Kirigo Ndoria Mortensen read "Greatness" In a Time of Covid in hallway Sheng

Keshi & Kirigo Ndoria read "Greatness" In a Time of Covid in hallway Sheng
#28 in the Mapping "Greatness" series of people of the Global Majority reading the same poem created to the pandemic and to Empire.
www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/mapping-greatness/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9TM...

26.10.2025 07:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Blinkered Bowen The BBCโ€™s International Editor On The โ€˜Gaza Warโ€™

Jeremy Bowen's reporting on Gaza for the BBC over the past two years has been shameful โ€“ and that is not more obvious only because the bar set by others is even lower.

Media Lens on how Bowen betrayed the victims of genocide: medialens.substack.com/p/blinkered-...

10.10.2025 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œRUMOURS OF MY DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED,โ€ SAYS IMMIGRANT ARTIVIST, WHILE LAMENTING OTHER DEATHS 1 October 2025

My latest newsletter tayoaluko.substack.com/p/rumours-of...

01.10.2025 12:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The shamefulness of the British Establishment is well captured by the embarrassed expressions in the faces of these police officers as they carry away the last (wheelchair-bound) dignified protestor. Those pulling the strings must eventually be taken to the Hague to answer for their crimes.

29.09.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Spaces for orchestral players and singers, and tickets still available for this festival. www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/ctfest
#samuelcoleridgetaylor #blackbritishmusic #blackclassicalmusic #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth

27.09.2025 10:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Spaces for orchestral players and singers, and tickets still available for this festival. www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/ctfest

27.09.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Funding Denials Notwithstanding, Liverpool Festival Celebrating Britainโ€™s Foremost Black Classical Composer Proceeds, with White Allyship from Countryโ€™s Oldest Brass Band
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#samuelcoleridgetaylor #blackhistorymonth

04.09.2025 05:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sign the Petition UN General Assembly: Deploy an Emergency Armed Multinational Protection Force to Gaza!

UN General Assembly: Deploy an Emergency Armed Multinational Protection Force to Gaza! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/FJjv8kFxmq via @UKChange

01.09.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My latest newsletter
tayoaluko.substack.com/p/nigerian-c...

29.08.2025 15:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Little Girl of Hiroshima, sung by Tayo Aluko
YouTube video by Tayo Aluko, Writer, Actor Little Girl of Hiroshima, sung by Tayo Aluko

youtu.be/UwrmVcG2ZDQ

13.08.2025 08:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fight or Flight? An Artist's Response to Creeping Fascism
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Join me with Paul Robeson's Love Song July 20 and 26

13.07.2025 22:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Desecration. A poem

#ukparliament #femalemps #enablinggenocide #suffragettes #yvettecooper #directaction #proscribetheidf #israelisaterroriststate

05.07.2025 09:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Palestine Action? Who are they? Not me, guv.

04.07.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Callout for classical instrumentalists and choristers, for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Day Festival, Liverpool, October 11, 2025.
Please share
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#samuelcoleridgetaylor

01.07.2025 22:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Representing a terrorist? My letter to @paulabarkermp.bsky.social re proposed proscription of #paestineaction
(she is my MP, not Kim Johnson, to whom I wrote earlier in error)
www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/wp-content/u...
#israelisaterroriststate #freepalestine

29.06.2025 20:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social has emailed me to remind me that she is no longer my MP, and that @paulabarkermp.bsky.social is. I apologised to Ms. Johnson, and will write to Ms. Barker soon. I will however leave this post here.

28.06.2025 21:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Terrorist in Your Constituency? Proposed Proscription of Palestine Action.
My letter to @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social

www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/wp-content/u...

#PalestineAction #weareallpalestineaction #FreePalestine

28.06.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Deported With a Nazi Salute? British Nigerian Writer Finds Poetic Sanctuary in Football City Juneteenth (June 19), 2025

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19.06.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My review of this very important book by Janet Alder, with Dan Glazebrook
www.counterfire.org/article/defi...

13.06.2025 10:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Terror on Liverpool Streets as Palestine Supporters Hijack Team Bus On 25 May, the day before the Liverpool Football Club victory parade, our regular pro-Palestine march through the city got unusually dangero...

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#freepalestine #palestineaction @pscupdates.bsky.social @claptoncfc.co.uk @celticfc.bsky.social @palaction.bsky.social #freethefilton18

31.05.2025 23:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I just voted for @jonathan-cook.bsky.social. He's shown in the company of several better-known journalists in this gallery, but he actually stands head and shoulders above them, in my humble opinion.

21.05.2025 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Blood Connection Short Film | Your Blood Could Be Their Lifeline
YouTube video by Become United UK The Blood Connection Short Film | Your Blood Could Be Their Lifeline

A short film encouraging Black people to donate blood.
#giveblood #sicklecell
youtu.be/jcmOrUtFE_Q?...

12.05.2025 21:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A roaring success for #callmrrobeson in Sheffield. Thanks to Three Acres And A Cow for organising a full house and presenting. #CoryBooker #PaulRobeson
www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/robeson/wp-c...

06.04.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My latest newsletter, April 2025
tayoaluko.substack.com/p/british-ni...?

01.04.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tayแป Aluko, the playwright bringing African stories to life, and Leeds this April - Red Ladder Theatre Company Tayแป Aluko is a Nigerian-born writer, singer, actor, and producer based in Liverpool. Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown โ€“ A concert in a play, written and performed by Tayแป, tells the story of George Coler...

www.redladder.co.uk/tayo-aluko-t...

12.03.2025 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Happy Independence Day, Ghana.
Mr. Robeson still dreaming of African Independence, with Southport students. #paulrobeson #ghanaindependence #no2nato

www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/robeson/wp-c...

06.03.2025 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Tayyaba Jiwani reads "Greatness" In A Time of COVID in Urdu
YouTube video by Tayo Aluko, Writer, Actor Tayyaba Jiwani reads "Greatness" In A Time of COVID in Urdu

Tayyaba Jiwani reads "Greatness" In A Time of COVID in Urdu
#27 in the Mapping "Greatness" series of people of the Global Majority reading the same poem created to the pandemic and to Empire. tayoalukoandfriends.com/mapping-grea...
youtu.be/cpzaJfyLJNA

02.03.2025 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Marika, early teaching, London, 1960s
YouTube video by Tayo Aluko, Writer, Actor Marika, early teaching, London, 1960s

Marika Sherwood (Nov 1937 - Feb 2025), Hungarian-born historian and Black History expert talks of first teaching Black primary school children in 1960s London, and being introduced to British racism in the process
Help finish the film: www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/marika-sherw...
youtu.be/8tEp64_QzGQ

01.03.2025 18:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Paul Robeson's Love Song was written during the era of #45. It is back with #47, thanks to C Venues digital programme at Dunedin Fringe

dunedinfringe.nz/events/paul-...
#paulrobeson #kenosha #antisemitism

24.02.2025 18:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Get well soon, sister!

21.02.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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