Beanie

[Nenta Literary Journal @nentajournal]

NENTA is delighted to announce our May publication,
featuring works from:

Kate Jackson
Terry Galley
Perfect Kwabena Yeboah
&
Adwoah Nyarkoa

Please, tell a friend to tell a friend

[Nenta Literary Journal @nentajournal]

We welcome Beah Batakou (@this_abena), our new poetry curator to the team!

[I @iroberta_amanda]

Between Fringe Woman and the idea of becoming ‘as offensive as kako,’ I don’t know which poem I love more!

@this_abena 💕👏🏽

https://t.co/vo5xQv4ui0

[Beanie @this_abena]

@iroberta_amanda 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 thank you, mama!

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

In honor of Beyoncé’s 44th birthday, tell us your favorite song and album by the icon! 🎶

[Pop Tingz @PopTingz]

In honor of Beyoncé’s 44th birthday, what are your top 4 favorite albums or songs by the legend?

[Aunty Teda @imoteda]

Come and felicitate with us on Thursday with unlimited drinks, great food, trivia, a lipsync battle abbl (ati bee bee lo) in honor of our good sis Anne Marie Lastrassi!

Thursday. 8pm @FiredandIced_

Hosted by the one and only @vincentdesmond_

[Ty Ngachira @anto_ty]

When Tyla said she is not Black but Coloured, she was not speaking into the American conversation about race at all. She was speaking in the language of her own country, shaped by its own history. Yet her words detonated in America as though they had been aimed there. This is what happens when a nation has spent a century convincing the world that its definitions are the only ones that matter.

America’s greatest export has never been war. It has never been democracy. It has never been freedom. America’s greatest export is the dream of itself.

It is not that the films are inherently better. It is not that the music contains some mystical note absent elsewhere. What America has, and what it has always had, is money, reach, and a machinery built to make its image the centre of the world.

This was not accidental. It was policy. It was the soft arm of empire. To project yourself outward until your face is the first one people recognise in the mirror.

And so the American way of life became the default. Other cultures were filed into two neat drawers: savage if they challenged the story, exotic if they could be sold back to you.

If you are Black, your first cinematic self was likely African American, the rapper, the sitcom character, the hero of a Spike Lee joint. If you are white in Europe or Australia, it was the white faces of American sitcoms and stadium tours. Whoever you were, your first image of yourself came with an American accent.

Over time, Americans began to believe the story they had written. When you grow up in the country that built itself into the cultural Mecca, it is easy to think you are the best simply because you are on top. You forget, or never know, that the game was fixed long before you played it.

But the monopoly is breaking. Nigeria’s Nollywood now speaks across oceans. South Korean dramas leap borders. India’s Bollywood never needed permission to fill theatres. Spanish thrillers keep strangers awake at night. Slumdog Millionaire, Squid Game, Money Heist, Shōgun — all aimed partly at the American market because that is where the money is, but no longer about America.

And here is the thing. Black Americans, who fought to be seen in their own country, became the global face of Blackness. That is a remarkable achievement. It was also made possible by the same system that excluded everyone else. Now Africans, Caribbeans, and Afro-Latins tell their own stories without making room for American centrality, and the absence is noticed.

We grew up watching you. You did not grow up watching us. And now the internet has levelled the ground just enough for others to speak without hesitation. Tyla’s words land differently because the world no longer accepts America as the only arbiter of meaning.

America’s greatest export was never its art. It was the power to decide which art, and which identities, the world would see. That power is no longer yours alone. There is both justice and loss in that.

[Jakky Bankong-Obi @jakkybeefive]

Our friend @pamilerinjacob got endorsed by the Arts Council of England for the Global Talent Visa in recognition of his tireless work in promoting poetry & the arts. Please let’s come together & support him by donating here.👇🏽
https://t.co/5E1fsFFTwe

Please RT.🙏🏽❤️

[Netflix @netflix]

It's almost time. The Old Guard 2 premieres in 12 HOURS.

[King Dom @enyonvm]

A 17 y/o accuses her proprietor of sexual harassment and their defence is to paint her as problematic, no talk of an investigation. Just straight up discrediting the accuser.

Okay so she's stubborn, doesn't mean she wasn't harassed?

And why was she arrested, not the accused?

[Africanofilter @africanofilter]

Congratulations 🍾

“Ghana Must Go” has been selected for this year's Talents Durban presented by the Durban FilmMart Institute! “Ghana Must Go”, Joewackle J. Kusi’s film in progress revisits Nigeria’s 1983 mass deportation of over two million immigrants, mostly Ghanaians. Through interwoven stories, it explores migration, loss, and resilience, highlighting universal themes of love, hope, and family.

[Beanie @this_abena]

@kwaku_kyereh Lmaooooo

[Sarpong ne Osei ne Asamoah @SarpongOAsamoah]

On my BIRTHDAY, 29th APRIL, @Canon_Podcast will, in collaboration with @churchofpoetry and @CGWSeries, host me as we launch my debut poetry collection YAANOM on twitter spaces. Also reading on the night will be @jay_kophy, @awotwumwa, @kwaku_kyereh and many other excellent poets.

[TMZ @TMZ]

#PalomaDiamond — the super famous Hollywood actress — suffered another disappointing loss at the #AcademyAwards on Sunday night, marking her 20th #Oscar nomination gone up in flames. She got real about how she's feeling with #TMZ: https://t.co/Yq7HHShI0a

[archive dilfs @archivedilfs]

Colman Domingo and his husband Raúl Domingo at the #Oscars

[Andy Pandy 🏳️‍🌈⚔️ @AndreaFrostland]

Ok day two of watching the bridgertons season two just bc a pretty lady.
I don't like the sister. Sorry, I just don't.

[Beanie @this_abena]

@KennieMacCarthy 🫂

[Ngzzzz @MnyakaAyabonga]

😭😭😭