Alexis Okeowo

'blessings and disasters: a story of alabama' out from @henryholt august 2025

[Henry Holt & Company @HenryHolt]

💚💛 We're so thrilled that #BlessingsAndDisasters by @alexis_ok is on shelves today! In this brilliant and intimate look at one of America’s most misunderstood states, Okeowo unearths the complicated legacies of Alabama.

Click here to get your copy! https://t.co/sDa2d3gzCM

[Henry Holt & Company @HenryHolt]

#BlessingsandDisasters by @alexis_ok is one of @AppleBooks #BestBooks of August! So proud to have this incredible title on the list. Check it out now: https://t.co/urcm2zQ9yF

[Alexis Okeowo @alexis_ok]

Join me with @frynaomifry on August 6 for the launch of my book Blessings and Disasters! Tickets here:
https://t.co/z47vnjOnI3

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

★ Alexis Okeowo offers a wide-ranging and nuanced account of her home state. Probing and sumptuously written, this makes for an entrancingly ground-level and empathetic view of Alabama’s past and present. @HenryHolt https://t.co/maTy9SdenK

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

@DrSidMukherjee .@alexis_ok spends time with Tina Johnson, who in 2018 accused the Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual assault (Moore denies the allegations), and reflects on the resentment that has grown toward the #MeToo movement in recent years. https://t.co/Iq0XvAvcLx

[Henry Holt & Company @HenryHolt]

Praise is rolling in faster than an Alabama storm. Take a look at what authors are saying about the powerful new book #BlessingsAndDisasters from PEN award winner @alexis_ok!

[Alexis Okeowo @alexis_ok]

@ElyseOnLife Hi I'm writing from The New Yorker, what's the best way to get in touch?

[Alexis Okeowo @alexis_ok]

The world forgot the ethnic cleansing, killings, and rape during Ethiopia's recent civil war. @malinfezehai and I went to document the crisis in Tigray, and a full-on war in Amhara. For @NYTmag: https://t.co/fhTYvYeC09

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina, who died in 2019, ruthlessly took down the clichés of writing about Africa in a viral 2005 essay. His work is as relevant as ever, @alexis_ok writes. https://t.co/4WKQJxn3MC

[Nina Garcia @ninagarcia]

@Tyllaaaaaaa covers our October issue. Blending the Amapiano music of her homeland with R&B and Pop, the South African popstar won over the world with a truly original sound. She shared with @ellemagazine, “it’s something I always really wanted, for myself, and for Africa, and for the world. Something different, something original. I also just wanted to dress up. I’m not always inspirational, guys!”

[Alexis Okeowo @alexis_ok]

One of the most shocking stories I've worked on: A pastor led hundreds of followers into a Kenyan forest. Not many came out alive.
For @NewYorker:

https://t.co/RKJomVYkRJ

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In Kenya, promising miracles has proved lucrative. @alexis_ok reports on a pastor who took his followers’ money and led them into the forest, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people. https://t.co/cb74rxZGr6

[Leah Flickinger @leahflickinger]

South Sudanese refugee Dominic Lobalu wants to make Olympic history tomorrow in the 5000m final. @alexis_ok explores his harrowing odyssey & the unwavering determination that got him to running's highest level. @longreads #longreads @SundayLR https://t.co/FKHpTXFuVK

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

2,187 Kenyan women accused British soldiers of rape. The British investigated their own military & concluded that “there was no reliable evidence to support any single allegation.”

They didn’t DNA test 69 mixed-race kids. Then Kenya lost the case files https://t.co/jiutnzWZZN

[Alexis Okeowo @alexis_ok]

@StephenThomo Thank you for reading!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I lost count of how many renowned journalists interviewed me on the alleged mistreatment of/sexual abuse against Palestinian women by Israeli forces, and never published any article on this.

One day I will give a full account in my memoir.

[Kenan Malik @kenanmalik]

“The depth of the horror surpasses our ability to describe it.” https://t.co/pbXLrnO92w

[Mona Chalabi @MonaChalabi]

I can't think what words to write on here any more.

[Alexis Okeowo @alexis_ok]

"There’s a TikTok of a genocide basically in slow motion.” Wrote about the war in Sudan for Vogue's March issue: https://t.co/bPF2z04TqJ
@KholoodKhair @WillCarter_NRC

[Casual Encountersz @therealsjloren]

Good day fellow psychopaths - If ur in helLA next week come say hi!
RSVP: https://t.co/paoALIDvth