Books & Rhymes

Joyfully encouraging you to critically engage with classic and contemporary (African) literatures🎙 Books & Rhymes: The Podcast - where books & music dialogue.

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

Brittle Paper’s Children’s Anthology is out now, and FREE to download!

19 delightful stories by writers from across Africa 🇨🇲🇬🇭🇿🇦🇳🇬🇿🇼🇲🇼🇸🇱🇹🇿🇳🇦🇰🇪
Perfect for your little ones.

Grab it here 👇🏾

#BooklingCorner #AfricanStoriesForKids

https://t.co/vOQ00c7JGq

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I’m giving away 2 FREE tickets to @BalletBlack’s incredible tribute to Nina Simone tomorrow at @YorkTheatre. Saw them at Stratford in May & they were awe-mazing. Booked ticket to see them again, but enemies of progress won’t let me prosper. DM if you want. https://t.co/UeSlESFS6X

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@iamheathermarks Check your DM. xx

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@JENDELLA I’ve got my ticket! Can’t wait to hear more about your utterly brilliant novel, Glory!

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Sawad Hussain stay doing the work. Check out this forthcoming title she co-yea slated with @arablit 🔥🔥🔥

[Sawad Hussain @sawadhussain]

COVER REVEAL👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 for BLACK FOAM (رغوة سوداء) by Haji Jabir translated by yours truly and Marcia Lynx Qualey 🎉🎉🎉. What a journey this has been, from pitching to proofreading! Over the 🌙 for the 🌍 to read this page-turner. #Eritrea #xl8

Out in February 2023, God willing!

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Had the pleasure of spending the evening listening to an utterly illuminating conversation between @EkowEshun & @MarlonJames5 in celebration of the launch of #MoonWitchSpiderKing at the @southbankcentre 🙌🏾

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Still can’t believe I was able to find a first edition copy of this extremely rare ‘Festac Anthology of Nigerian Writing’, edited by Cyprian Ekwensi. 😱😱

Won’t He do it! 💃🏾💃🏾

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Huge congratulations, Nana. The US edition is GORGEOUS!!

I’m legging it to online shops to get my copy in addition to my UK edition.

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@chikaunigwe Congratulations ❤️❤️❤️ Looove this cover!!!

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@bronzebygold @PenguinUKBooks @vintagebooks @SquarePegBooks @HTelfer1 This is FANTASTIC news, Marianne!!! It’s is so very well deserved. Congratulations 🎉

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@khalisaandco @SOnithewriter

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@khalisaandco @ToluAgbelusi @JENDELLA @awapointe

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Ohhhh… @bulaqbooks tote is calling out to me. Who am I to refuse?

[Bulaq @bulaqbooks]

You can support BULAQ by subscribing, rating, sharing, & also with a small purchase at the @arablit RedBubble shop:

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@BookMonsterAlly @CassavaRepublic @JacarandaBooks @ToluAgbelusi @_KnightsOf

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Last night’s live recording of da poddy was a dream!

Huge thanks @MukomaWaNgugi for the generous dose of laughter, unforgettable stories, and music…

@CassavaRepublic for consistently feeding our imagination with rich texts…

& @LibreriaLondon for a stellar venue.

[Ituĩka @Ituika_]

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@annamburtt @kit_reads @LaurenceKingPub @orionbooks Anna!!! This is great news. It couldn’t have happened to a kinder, honest, and all round lovely person. Congratulations, friend ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Excited to announce that tonight’s live show with Mukoma wa Ngügi is sold out 💥🔥

Our audience are in for a sonically immersive experience of @MukomaWaNgugi’s latest novel, Unbury Our Dead With Song, which I highly recommend you purchase.

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Listen to @elnathan_john’s narration of the audiobook edition of @MukomaWaNgugi’s novel Unbury Our Dead with Song.

Also: join me tomorrow, Friday 19th of Nov in conversation with Mukoma.

Details here: https://t.co/QXHWEtqNBk

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Check out Mukoma wa Ngugi's audiobook Unbury Our Dead With Song, which I narrated:

https://t.co/oUv5gW8tzg