olufemi terry

Author, Wilderness of Mirrors (September 2025; Restless Books)

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[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

Football’s three mixed Maghrebi and Black African stars are not emissaries of a new pan-Africanism. And the continent doesn’t need them to be.

https://t.co/U9RHl2cAHg

[olufemi terry @olufemiterry]

Wilderness of Mirrors gets a preview as one to watch in The Guardian’s Black culture 2026 roundup — a huge honour.
https://t.co/p04w59eLoH
Pre-order it here: https://t.co/m6GTqRqm3w
@LesFugitives @DipoFaloyin

[olufemi terry @olufemiterry]

Two new conversations about Wilderness of Mirrors are out now — both linked to @georgemasonu’s literary community.
🎙️ Upstart Crow (@CheuseCenter)
🎙️ Fall for the Book Podcast
Both episodes now available on Spotify — just search the podcast name + Wilderness of Mirrors.

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So grateful to @ElectricLit for their continued support — they’ve featured Wilderness of Mirrors in a new mini review: https://t.co/OtEjsFrUY3

Years ago, I wrote an essay for them about Cape Town that, in some ways, anticipated the novel:
https://t.co/dfE8fdSL23

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Great to be back in Africa Is a Country — and it feels apt that this new essay is about the books and ideas behind my debut novel, Wilderness of Mirrors.

More on the novel: https://t.co/QM1O3KD3xe

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

What does it mean to imagine a city with no fixed essence, only shifting histories and unstable forms of power? @olufemiterry shares his reading list that inspired his latest novel “Wilderness of Mirrors” https://t.co/ONMxS1VHSh

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@BookBrunch @LesFugitives Excited to be joining @LesFugitives with Wilderness of Mirrors next spring—thank you @BookBrunch for the mention.

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Excited to see Wilderness of Mirrors featured on @BrittlePaper!

#BooksOfX

[BRITTLE PAPER @brittlepaper]

Olufemi Terry’s WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS transports us to Stadmutter, a restless city in Southern Africa where history, desire & identity collide.

Read the excerpt + preorder here.

https://t.co/I2AavSpAFg…by-olufemi-terry/

[olufemi terry @olufemiterry]

@FlyingBrussels Paying business class fare only to have my luggage lost between Frankfurt and Abidjan after a two-hour layover is absolutely unacceptable. Premium prices should mean premium service, not premium disappointment. #BrusselsAirlines #LuggageFail

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.@yinkaElujoba, @molarawood, @LeeyaMehta, @LizzyAttree, @lolashoneyin, @africasacountry, @oagborsangaya

[Georgia Review @GeorgiaReview]

Where does this leave him, who is neither an earnest migrant to the industrialized world nor a faithful son of the soil? He, who is grateful to have been born in an ex–British colony but feels more at ease among francophone Africans?

—Olufemi Terry

https://t.co/gu6f3JKigp

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https://t.co/IzkLKAxjYs

My essay about Abidjan, CI is out in @GeorgiaReview

@DroEdwige, @freddieboswell

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@justindgregg Consonant with ideas in your great book; esp. enjoyed the John Gray/Pinker contrast.

https://t.co/RGZAj5mt1U

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@lolashoneyin You do demure so well.....

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@AmityShlaes Is it also true that socialism doesn't fail us; we fail socialism?

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"If ADOS activists flounder — they have fixed their gaze on slavery reparations and are intent the wrong people don’t get in on the action — it will be because their certain-Black-lives-matter-more approach proves politically misjudged." @thomaschattwill
https://t.co/AS065ZQJEY

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"what percentage of the world’s population is WEIRD today. The normals are turning into WEIRDs in droves, and almost nobody is going in the other direction."

Hm.. a third of the US population seems absolutely to have gone in the opposite direction.....

https://t.co/A0iv6CeWZj

[olufemi terry @olufemiterry]

@thomaschattwill @stevenjshirley Why is qualifcation for reparations the benchmark for who is "black"? Do these observations signal your support for the ADOS movement, which seems to presume all black immigrants to America are trying to horn in on something they don't deserve.

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Excellent essay by @TerrenceDoyle . A propos, #stillwaiting to read a @10SadioMane profile in @guardian_sport. https://t.co/tDFdD9NMz7

[olufemi terry @olufemiterry]

@AmIncarnated @AprilSunday3 @w_terrence How would you tow a line? Maybe you lot should paid more attention to mastering basic English rather than continually weaponizing your views....

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@AmIncarnated @AprilSunday3 @w_terrence Toeing....

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https://t.co/E33q9nHXQ9