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Loved & fully known | Black| poet-writer | xtian mystic| she/her | 👻 @newwritingsouth alumni|

[ASHANAH @AnnahAshaba]

Feminist Africa has served once again.

Please visit the website and download the full copy of this Issue.

The journal is open access.

Here’s the link to the website

https://t.co/kK0qvXr8eu

[martha @mxmsworld]

Trillionaire is obscene. I cannot believe it.

[nathalie @natssantos_]

Patties now costing £3? @David_Cameron you are a big belly bitch, everything is your fault!!

[L. @_ELAOH]

@copypapergurl @gear5Iuffy You’re not wrong!
It grinds my gears it’s upheld as something we are supposed to view as wholly positive too just because of RePrESeNTaTIoN. How you centring yt femininity and creating problematic portrays of Black womanhood, in a film supposedly about a Black woman 🫠

[L. @_ELAOH]

There’s a kind of Christianity that is practiced (and encouraged). That causes people to turn their brains off and mindless follow authoritative figures. That’s how you get Black folks actively marching for their own demise. We are commanded to love God with our whole *minds*😕

[Hey M @Lorde_Em]

Terrorists have attacked Benue again. 17 killed

[L. @_ELAOH]

Me to the world at this point, pension age going up, council tax, bills up everywhere that has a hole and micromanagement in every company. And chronic conditions on top. Let’s wrap it up - Lord send the asteroid xoxo

[L. @_ELAOH]

Bad news everywhere.

[L. @_ELAOH]

Ego Ella May’s new album is 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾

[Oduduwa XRepublic @OduduwaR]

Actor Kunle Remi self is tired. He expressed his frustration.

E go touch everybody

[🇯🇲𝕋𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕒 𝔻𝕒 𝕌𝕟𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖🫡 @ICtrlUFranLol]

How meningitis rash looks on Black skin 👇🏾
Take note because there is no mention of how it presents itself on Black people.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

I see some weird things but this takes the biscuit. A vulnerability in the Companies House website, that let anyone view the private dashboard of any one of the five million registered companies, see directors' personal details.

And modify them.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

TREASURY COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE STUDENT LOANS (inc Plan 2). Within that there is a questionnaire for (potential) students, graduates, university leavers & others to feed your views into, which is worth doing... https://t.co/clEUfYYOYF

Its good to see, and lets hope it brings pressure for improvement.

PS Treasury Committee is a cross party committee of MPs, not part of the government. Its job is to scrutinise policy, examine legislation where relevant, and hold ministers and public bodies to account on behalf of Parliament.

While it can publish reports and put pressure on the government, but it doesn't have any direct power to compel the government to act.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Please sign my petition on getting Palantir out of our NHS - now at over 110,000.

https://t.co/oqsZdtN3pZ

[Eddie Thomas @eddiethomas88]

UK interior minister Mahmood cancelled all Sudanese student visas yesterday, because she thought that too many Sudanese students with UK visas have applied for asylum in 2025 (120 applications). Scholarship-winning Sudanese students are posting rejection letters online.

[Ikhide R. Ikheloa @ikhide]

I have enjoyed the commentaries on whether or not folks should be sharing soft copies of books and in essence denying the authors and/or their estates financial royalties. Clearly there have been long-simmering tensions around this issue. The conclusion is that it is complicated.

I would like to thank @foxypiano for unwittingly starting the debate by offering pdfs of old novels of the Heinemann African Writers' Series. It's an amazing collection. BTW. I love their thoughtful tweets on any and everything literature and I thank them for their service. Follow them, lol.

I thank @sauvamemte for putting them up in a Google collection here: https://t.co/zzHYFPBB0t

These writers were great warriors; rescuing their works from benign neglect and anonymity and putting them up for the world to see honors the memory of their sacrifice. This action is not what I would use as an example of piracy. It's more complicated than that.

The AWS series of books mean a lot to my generation, we were raised by them and I am incredibly grateful to these two for keeping them in digital form, hopefully for posterity. Most of them are currently out of print and many of the writers dead or unaccounted for.

As an aside, Kansas University has a rich archive of Onitsha Market literature that can be accessed and read electronically for free at, https://t.co/UBgRSY1XJO

They have justified the "piracy" by stating in fine print that most if not all the authors and their estate cannot be traced.

Well, whatever, go over there and enjoy what was basically the beginning of the democratization of narrative. It may have failed then, but social media has done it.

Nigerians want to read good content, they are held back by the prohibitive cost of books. What are the options outside of "piracy"? As I have stated ad nauseam, centering the debate about the book is not helpful, it should be about reading. The medium is not as important as the culture of reading good content.

Globally, publishing companies are re-tooling their industrial age mindset and moving to the internet and social media. The print newspaper of old is gone and the book is dying a long slow death. Publishers are working very hard to meet readers where they are - online.

The book will die first in black Africa where the publishing industry is inchoate. We have neither the money nor the infrastructure to sustain what is essentially the past tense. It is madness to invest in a business that produces music in cassettes. Why?

The cassette as past tense: That's what you are thinking of each time you moan the absence of a physical publishing industry in Nigeria. That ship has sailed away. There is an opportunity here to offer great content to readers online.

Create an online publishing company with subscriptions. Advocate to the government the idea that reading should be an expense. Books may be dying a long slow death but Nigeria can and should subsidize its production. Provide incentives for reading. Provide incentives for packaging reading the way youngsters like to read.

Orthodoxy and risk-averse behavior plus self-serving attitudes of older powerful writers who gate-keep are challenges. Let's hold ourselves accountable. We could use the over $20 million that the NLNG has lavished on book prizes to support the literary ecosystem. Similarly the Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) could open its books and you'll find that there are many opportunities to truly support and model the behavior we desire of others. The PAWA once got one million dollars in Buhari's budget about 10 years ago.

Using the term "piracy" to describe what just happened oversimplifies the issue and keeps the debate focused on the symptoms rather than on the root cause. We have a crisis on our hands: Folks are self-medicating on the wrong content online because that's all they can afford. It's a national security crisis.

[foxygen @foxypiano]

i with my full chest, propose that our classics should not be held to the stringent standards of piracy, except everyone who can access those works. i say this as someone who possess physical copies of hundreds of classics.

[L. @_ELAOH]

@foxypiano 🙏🏾please

[Commonwealth Foundation Creatives @cwfcreatives]

Are you a writer from a Commonwealth country?

Every year, we run the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, celebrating the best unpublished short fiction from across the Commonwealth.

Writers from our five regions (Africa, Asia, Canada & Europe, the Caribbean and the Pacific) are invited to submit stories between 2,000 and 5,000 words. The overall winner will receive £5,000 and have their entry published.

Entries for the 2027 prize open in September 2026. Sign up to learn more:
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[Ash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇼 @theashrb]

I just find it very interesting that the BBC saw it fit to censor “Free Palestine” to protect a certain demographic’s fragile feelings but an *actual* slur wasn’t also worth editing out 🤣 two hour delay too apparently… there was ample opportunity to avoid this BAFTA shitstorm.