Muti'ah Badruddeen

🇳🇬 🇸🇦 Muslimah Writer Winner: 2022 @the_swapNG Shortlist: Discoveries 2025 Longlist: Commonwealth Prize 2022 Reproductive Health Doctor & Founder, @SRH_Ed

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

The news is out…

Allaahuma baarik fr fr

[Women's Prize @WomensPrize]

Drumroll please… the 2025 #Discoveries shortlist is here! Each of the six talented writers have worked hard on their novel-in-progress, dazzling the judges with their originality, characterisation and storytelling. Learn more about them here: https://t.co/Iv968HnyYE

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

Me, whenever anyone tells me to start a substack (in my head only though, cos saying what I REALLY think didn’t go too well in the jungle of my Nigerian boarding school):

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

my only issue is people aren’t reading enough to be writing all these substacks.

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@MsNemah I mean, apart from hot dog, most of them were close

At that age I’d have been like he goes to work

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@__kayah_ Yeah, sorrows… prayers

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

In Islam, everyone - women AND men- are expected to remove pubic and armpit hair at least once in 40 days

Let us tell this story properly, plis

[Advika Tiwari @AdvikaBloom]

In Islam, women are instructed to remove pubic hair within 40 days.

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

Training for the day job covered Dictator Island and I legit had flashbacks to Babangida/ Abacha Era

Everyone thinks they would be a rebel until you’re in it; but the instinct to survive is strong

Between Hope 93 and Endsars, the Nigerian people have well and truly been broken

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

Loool

The UK was not invited to this chat

[The Glasses Girl 🤓 @dglasses_girl]

25% of our income is so crazy. Even God asked for just 10% Mehnn…

Greedy ass men. 😒

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

Training for the day job covered Dictator Island and I legit had flashbacks to Babangida/ Abacha Era

Everyone thinks they would be a rebel until you’re in it; but the instinct to survive is strong

Between Hope 93 and Endsars, the Nigerian people have well and truly been broken

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@__dabira__ Eees makan makan, this life will always yii to some people

[moni cheddah @commieoflagos]

Atlantic was accusing an African writer for using AI last week. I just knew they were projecting. Every accusation is a confession.

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@Thamina_F Thamina🫂 may Allaah forgive him and accept him into His mercy. May He grant you all solace and comfort in this time

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

The many different imprints of Harlequin that I started reading circa 9 years of age 😏

[Book of the Day @BookOfTheDayUS]

which book did you read at twelve that you definitely should not have been reading at twelve

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@__dabira__ I’m the pretentious literary bros (I raised my kids on a steady diet of classics while homeschooling) and this tweet is my son, now 3rd year in uni appreciating the difference that makes between him and his peers’ reading culture/ palate / appetite

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@Queen_Raffy May Allaah grant you what is best for you, in this world and the next

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@Bunmi_razaq Wa alaykumu salaam warahmah. May Allaah increase you in goodness

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@AustinYoshino I’m so sorry, sending you good thoughts and prayers

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@Accoid 40 minutes? How?! Me I still have the last 2 phones I changed cos I haven’t finished transferring my crap from them

[Káyọ̀dé @KayodeAyobamii]

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it

—
Chinua Achebe

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

Sorrows, prayers

I am still baffled over where I “kept” my snazzy Gucci shades last winter

[VICO @Vicophobia01]

I have ADHD. A few months ago I did a big clean and put my passport in a safe place. You know the rest.

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

@Adio_Samsa Same! I go back to it ever so often, to see if my memory is exaggerated. It’s not

[Muti'ah Badruddeen @deenprogress]

Let Us Tell This Story Properly- Jennifer Makumbi
Hills Like White Elephant 😏

[brian @brianonhere]

please tell me 2-3 short stories you like that you can remember right off the dome without digging in to any lists or notes. maybe not favorite but ones you can cite off rip

1. p’s parties jhumpa lahiri
2. class war to nantucket
3. the kij johnson one about the bridge builder