Author, Terminal Maladies @AutumnHousePrs '24, @CAAPPoetics Book Prize winner @IowaWritersWksp ’22 @MinnesotaMFA ’26 Elizabeth George Fdn Grantee ’23
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I am so thrilled to share with you the cover of my book Terminal Maladies, and also announce that it’s available for pre-order, if you’re interested, at the link below:
autumnhouse.org/books/termin…
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Nebeolisa Okwudili retweeted
That university in Nsukka is supposed to have an archive of Igbo culture but why would they do something like that when they can do other important things like being evil to their students.
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I'm so happy to have a short story in the latest issue of @GeorgiaReview . Thanks to Gerald Maa and Amy Bonnaffons for welcoming it. Been working on this story for a long time, so glad it's now out in the world. Here's a sneak peak
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Babies themselves make poor characters in novels. They may have personality but they have very little moral agency.
— Anne Enright
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In 1993, when Morrison won the Nobel Prize, men, including one Nobel winner, asked me, ‘Is she that good?’ as though I might know this in some way they could not. I could read like a woman, perhaps.
— Anne Enright
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I'm happy to announce that my anthology of Black sea writing, I Will Take to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea, is scheduled to be published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2026. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
ALT The cover of the book features a painting of a Black man in storm-damaged boat on a stormy ocean, with sharks circling the boat.
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“This is day 4 my sister and other corps members were taken away by kidn@ppers, up till now, NYSC and the government are yet to do anything.”
~ sister of abducted NYSC corps member cries out
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Dear friends,
I am glad to announce that I have been selected as the winner of the inaugural edition of The Future Awards Africa Independent (TFAAi) for Literature in Oyo State. Thanks to the organizers.
AlhamduliLlaah for everything.
(RMG)
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She held such profoundly anti-Black racist views (which were documented in her book) that she was forced to apologise to save a major exhibition.
Her views were so racist that they edited them out of the English translated version to save her brand.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, famous for covering her colorful installation designs with polka dots, has died at 97. cnn.it/4zCmlbW
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High possibility that Jesus probably had female disciples but the men that wrote the books in the bible just decided not to mention them 🤷🏿♂️
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Botswana has officially removed the remaining colonial-era laws that criminalised same-sex relationships.
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The weight of certain news
on the phone
makes the receiver heavier
makes it fall from my hands
—Garous Abdolmalekian
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Hello book lovers!!! I'm so excited to announce that we have partnered with Tiny Dot @TDbookstores to sell my book, While The World Slept, in Nigeria. So, for now, you can either purchase copies of my book from them or directly from me once they arrive in Nigeria.
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Hello Friends, Kindly attend this Friday. It's going to be a great experience.
"Salawu meditates on the agony of Atlantic memories and dispersal, confronting new forms of digital kinship."
"The Naming explores...the various ways one remains tied to their ancestors by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past,
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