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escaping the maelstrom.
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listening to fola’s new album & hearing chimamanda adichie’s voice at the end of “how many?” was such a head-nodding moment for me. we really need more afroliterature & afrobeat collaborations. please!🙏🏾
listening to fola’s new album & hearing chimamanda adichie’s voice at the end of “how many?” was such a head-nodding moment for me. we really need more afroliterature & afrobeat collaborations. please!🙏🏾
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I think homophobia reeks of helplessness and fear, born from a desire to control what it doesn't understand. Homophobia looks at this person fluttering without restrictions, and it's scared that if it doesn't act fast, this person will touch the sky and meld with it.
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so last month, I contested in a chess tournament in school and won. I might actually be the greatest player ever, hehe.
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Glad to have my work featured in the latest issue of Fieldstone Review, and another in The Muse.
Enjoy! 😊
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DAY 12 of the October-verse: Testimony by @iyanam_ is a haunting account of childhood innocence caught in the crossfire of a violent world. From the eyes of a young boy, the poem moves from the quiet cruelty of a schoolyard to the terrifying chaos of gunshots and a mother's grief
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Drum rolls! 🥁
My chapbook "Negotiating Salvation" was selected by Prof. @kwamedawes & @chrisabani for inclusion in the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Boxset (Kumi Na Mbili, 2027). Set to be published: @AfricanPoetryBF! @AkashicBooks.
Glory. Glory. Glory. 🥳🥳
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Dearest younger writers. Please stop referring to yourself as an “up-and-coming writer”. If you are doing the difficult work of writing, figuring out how to put words onto a page regularly, whether you are published yet or not, you are a Writer. Take pride in that.
when you read lgbtq books by african authors, you are confronted with a tragic knowledge: amid everything else, there is always someone, somewhere, enduring a quiet suffocation.
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stick with your craft, however challenging it may be. prioritise improvement. stay open to criticism, and never hesitate to showcase your work.
the universe always favours consistency, in the end.
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I love anything that begins with the body, the body as art, the body as archive, the body writing itself, the body wanting to be seen. I love flowers, too. I don't know, probably because of them emoting tenderness, to be gentle with what is soft, exposed, blooming, and everything
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Co-hosted a red carpet today for the first time 🧡🥹
I met amazing people and I really had a fun time
Y’all should watch out for #savatoo by @ibehthegong.
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Had a fun time with @UCCommunityy @notjusttomi ❤️
dinner was last night & I got appointed editor-in-chief of my students firm, Ime Umanah Chambers. @We_Chambers.
