A. Ọkpara

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore things that I'm afraid of.” —Joss Whedon.

[Lolwe KE @LolweBooksKE]

The weekend is here, what are you reading?

#weekendreads #lolwebookske #kisumubookstore #kisumu

[The Republic @republicjournal]

Though pilgrimage brought many African Muslims to the region, hundreds of years of enslavement firmly planted millions of Africans in the military, domestic and religious life of the Middle East. https://t.co/09TQwrUSKm

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

10 books to fall in love with science fiction:

1) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

[: noor : @nooromii]

I havent read a lot of standalones hut these would be my best so far

[A. Ọkpara @beingarinze]

@natpopcom I applied for birth attestation for over week now and it is still showing pending.

[A. Ọkpara @beingarinze]

@AkaaJoseph Good morning.
I applied for attestation of Birth for a while now and it keeps showing pending.

[KeneGraphy🦍📸🖤 @UgwuKenechukw10]

Akégbé-Ugwu, Enugu🇳🇬
February, 2025.

Photographed By Ugwu Kenechukwu.

[The Republic @republicjournal]

'Many of these young women have taken part in a voodoo or juju ritual to seal the bond with their madame. They are not afraid of escaping. But they are terrified that if they do not pay back the debt, misfortune will follow them.'
This is why standard anti-trafficking approaches often miss the point. https://t.co/uSibIbrFri

[KeneGraphy🦍📸🖤 @UgwuKenechukw10]

Aba, Abia State🇳🇬

PHOTOGRAPHED By Ugwu Kenechukwu.

[Unique💕 @empress_ot7]

If you love NEMESIS

You should watch this Netflix movie

A 10/10

[girly&wordly @Brieyonce]

My book recommendations after seeing ‘Is God Is’. Themes: Black Female rage, revenge, Black southern gothic underbelly, family, religion, sisterhood. All Black authors, of course! 🔥

[KeneGraphy🦍📸🖤 @UgwuKenechukw10]

FOR THE BOYS.

Photographed By Ugwu Kenechukwu.

[Charly@roofing @Charlyroofing4]

Concrete tiles 🔥

[Better Man @BeBetterMan_]

7 WAYS TO BECOME MORE HANDSOME

1. Use CeraVe Every Day.

[Mayowa Sheikhspeare @CoveredInWords]

Stupendously brilliant.

[Sifa @rehema_sifa]

When the Zulus produce a Tolstoy, we will read him” is a logic here where a brilliant writer produces a powerful book, only for the literary world to respond with suspicion. & perhaps the issue is not just the writing itself, but who is writing

This book is pure masterclass 🤌🏾

[Lynx Arts & Wallpapers @lynxchizzy]

Sunsets and ancient giants in the heart of Madagasca

[Ikhide R. Ikheloa @ikhide]

"Interestingly enough, in my mind, in their works, Achebe and Ngugi proved that one could take the English Language and appropriate it for oneself and write with it as if one was writing in one's indigenous language. Read Achebe's books, especially Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People; the beauty of Achebe's novels is in how he took the English Language and fooled the reader into thinking that the characters are speaking Igbo. Reading Things Fall Apart especially, the reader would be forgiven for thinking that Achebe was writing in Igbo. The man was a genius. Achebe's approach was brilliant on many levels; economically, trying to sell a novel in the language of my ancestors would be a huge challenge. Not many people would buy it because many of my people speak the language but can neither read nor write it. Besides, there is not much of a market for works of fiction written in my language. That is the least of our challenges. Achebe and his generation of writers brilliantly sidestepped that challenge by being creative with the use of the English language. They appropriated the English language and made it uniquely their own. That is how it should be."

- Ikhide R Ikheloa

Yes. Chinua Achebe took the English Language and fooled readers into thinking that the characters in his books are speaking Igbo. Reading Things Fall Apart, the reader would be forgiven for thinking that Achebe was writing in Igbo. The man was a genius.

READ “Of African literature and the language and the politics of the stories” by Ikhide R. Ikheloa

https://t.co/fJzWKJ8KJh

[Bookish Ezioma @EziomaKalu]

I have just finished reading Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda and I enjoyed it a bit too much. Here’s what I think. A thread 🧵

[Awelewa Charles @awelewacharles]

“Teach me how to sell gold”