Nebeolisa Okwudili

Author, Terminal Maladies @AutumnHousePrs '24, @CAAPPoetics Book Prize winner
@IowaWritersWksp ’22 @MinnesotaMFA ’26
Elizabeth George Fdn Grantee ’23

[Nebeolisa Okwudili @NebeolisaO]

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:
https://t.co/N3QS7bTn60

[David *Objection* Ngong @ProfDNgong]

Niyi Osundare

😭

[Thuso van Zyl 🇿🇦 @Thuso1Africa]

I am sure this xenophobe is only talking about churches owned by African migrants. In his colonised mind, the Catholic Church, Mosques, Synagogues, Hindu Temples etc, are not foreign churches

[𝕭𝖎𝖗𝖉𝖞 𝖛𝖘 𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞𝖑𝖔𝖓 @mary_got_grace]

don't use ai to write, use your childhood trauma like the rest of us

[City! @dolapocarter]

Una go leave politicians wey dey kill una daily dey attack queer people wey no do una anything

I hate this country mehn

[Pulse Nigeria @PulseNigeria247]

Nearly 60 years after the Nigerian Civil War, the BBC is set to release "Surviving Biafra," a documentary by Grammy-winning Nigerian director Meji Alabi.

According to the BBC, the film features accounts from soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict. Out June 1. 🎬

[Ossai of Enugu @ossaivictor1_]

He told us clearly that if he doesn't give us 24/7 electricity within 4 years, we shouldn't vote for him in 2027.

Have you forgotten?

[Nebeolisa Okwudili @NebeolisaO]

@iamToluDaniel I believe it is the argument because we don't want to even talk about how even in the West, like any art books are a luxury. With $12 I can get a Spotify subscription for a month. That can't even buy you a book in the US

[Nebeolisa Okwudili @NebeolisaO]

@iamToluDaniel I say this as someone who uses the state and the university libraries a ton. I once assisted a professor whose 1st assignment was for every student to have a state library card. Young people don't even know they exist. They're essential to d culture.

[Nebeolisa Okwudili @NebeolisaO]

@iamToluDaniel Is it really classist though? Libraries are places where everything is free. Let's start there. It's like when Doris Lessing said the reason Africa hasn't produced Nobel laureates is because many of us didn't grow around books. Libraries are essential

[Nebeolisa Okwudili @NebeolisaO]

The dead are writing
a diary
of the living —

just as we keep
each day
a diary called dying—

every entry
an exit.
— Kevin Young

[P0liticalbaby 🇵🇸🇨🇩 @mao_0k]

The sweltering Lagos summer interrupted my lunch of Jollof rice and bean cake

[Nebeolisa Okwudili @NebeolisaO]

@iamToluDaniel @RomeoOriogun We were both finalists for a prize and he must have been wondering how I made the prize shortlist 🤣

[𝔐𝔢𝔤𝔞𝔫 🍇 @saint_witch_]

Interesting how Matt Damon and Lupita Nyong’o both have exactly the same amount of Greek heritage (none), but the Internet is only furious about one casting choice and not the other. Riddle me that.

[Nebeolisa Okwudili @NebeolisaO]

@iamToluDaniel Probably in your case they got someone in the West to read the book and they were faking a Naija accent

[jamie @jmsnftzptrck]

I suspect AI will drive me off social media because you can't escape LLM-generated text on any platform and I don't want to read literally any of that (and my job requires me to read a lot of it already)

[henry. @henryleedasher]

Take racism seriously. Take homophobia seriously. Take transphobia seriously.

[Chuka Nduneseokwu @Chuka_ndu]

Recently, I was initiated into the Divine Order of Ndị Dibịa who use Mgbọrọgwụ na mkpa akwụkwọ (roots and herbs) to heal and save lives.

Carrying the Ukpa Mgbọrọgwụ/Ọgwụ and walking to the market and back,

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