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“Invoking Martin Luther King, Jr, Cornel West once said that an activist is someone who is ‘maladjusted to injustice’. We should all be activists; I certainly am.”
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“I wrote Gbagba and Jaadeh! with the intention of starting a bloodless, ethical ‘revolution from below’, using children as my allies.”
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As we approach Int’l Anti-Corruption Day on Dec 9, I'm reflecting on how much I’ve enjoyed equipping #children with the verbal tools to challenge the confusing ethical codes of adults in their lives through my anti-#corruption kids’ books Gbagba & Jaadeh!: www.robtelneajaipailey.com/author
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) December 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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