"It is a measure of the artist's wide-ranging influence that one of those paying tributes was Wayne Barrow, manager of the American Hip-Hop legend, The Notorious B.I.G." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kasali Akangbe Ogun: Tributes paid to Nigeria's renowned Yoruba wood carver

Kasali Akangbe Ogun, who came from a long line of wood carvers and wanted to preserve local traditions, has been buried following his death after a brief illness.

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Congratulations to @illepitaph.bsky.social, @geoliminal.bsky.social, Elisabeth Sheffield, Peter Grandbois, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, and @molarawood.bsky.social—this year's Pushcart nominees!

Here's a @bookshop.org link to Ngũgĩ's Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas (hardback), out now from @thenewpress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/90290/9781... And your pdf download link to this week's @thecontinent.org : www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

Check out Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas - <p><b>A <em>Literary Hub</em> Most Anticipated Book<br></b><br><b>Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial liter...

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With my review of his latest book, published in May by @thenewpress.bsky.social :

Continued in this week's @thecontinent.org: "What Ngũgĩ meant: Jacqueline Nyathi asked global writers how they will remember him." Words from Zukiswa Wanner, Bhakti Shringapure @radicalbooks.bsky.social , Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Aminatta Forna, and @molarawood.bsky.social . 💙📚

@thecontinent.org remembers Ngũgĩ.

The ancestors have welcomed Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a titan of literature, countless are the number of readers his work inspired to become writers, his legacy will speak on across the generations.

Take a trip through the shadows of the Golden City courtesy of @molarawood.bsky.social in our latest issue! bit.ly/44XKA7B #shortstories #literarycommunity #fiction

Thank you for thinking of sending it to us, Molara! Really honored. It was super-exciting to open up the story and begin making my way through the Golden City. What a world.

A favorite genre of mine is fiction that does the work of documentary journalism, tipping the balance away from interiority to the world. Molara Wood gets that balance in this portrait of an impossible city, rendered in densely multifarious, textured language that reads like a Nigerian Neuromancer.

Molara Wood@molarawood.bsky.social · last yr.

My short story, "Requiem for the Golden City", in Issue 32 of @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Read story here: yourimpossiblevoice.com/requiem-for-... Your Impossible Voice publishes "brash and velvety" new work from around the globe. Proud to be certified brash and velvety.

My short story, "Requiem for the Golden City", in Issue 32 of @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Read story here: yourimpossiblevoice.com/requiem-for-... Your Impossible Voice publishes "brash and velvety" new work from around the globe. Proud to be certified brash and velvety.

Requiem for the Golden City | Issue 32

By Molara Wood — "In the end, it was the mining belt that spat him out. But he hadn’t the tiniest intimation of this when he set out that evening, thinking only that he hated short-time."

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Lucky to guest-edit prose for this issue oF YIV. Thanks to everyone who sent in work and to those whose work I chose. There's prizewinners and first-time fictioneers and more than a little of the ondoorgrondelijk, from Africa to Oakland. Thank you to Keith, Karen, and Stephen for having me.

Your Impossible Voice@yourimpossiblevoice.com · last yr.

It's here. Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, @molarawood.bsky.social, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, @ianmacclayn.bsky.social, Karen An-hwei Lee, @adamsorardor.bsky.social, @ericracher.bsky.social, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan...

It's here. Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, @molarawood.bsky.social, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, @ianmacclayn.bsky.social, Karen An-hwei Lee, @adamsorardor.bsky.social, @ericracher.bsky.social, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan...

Your Impossible Voice #32 | Spring 2025

Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, Molara Wood, Khalil AbuSharekh, Ian MacClayn, Karen An-hwei Lee, Austin Adams, Eric T. Racher, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan, Steve Barba...

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"To many scientists, Mars One was humanity’s next great adventure." Words: Serena Meloche Art: Yemisi Aribisala www.guernicamag.com/all-that-blue/

Fed up of the racism & misogyny that couldn’t imagine a Black woman as an attorney, Rebecca Hall began a PhD in history. She unearthed women-led slave revolts and wrote Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. www.feministgiant.com/p/books-wake...

Books: Wake - The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, Rebecca Hall, Illustrated by Hugo Martinez

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Absolutely awful news. Koyo was a powerhouse andl appointed to curate the next Venice Biennale, at the top of her game.

ArtReview@artreview.bsky.social · last yr.

Koyo Kouoh, the curator and director of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, has died, Zeitz MOCAA announced today. artreview.com/koyo-kouoh-p...

Shocking exit for Koyo Kouoh, curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale, the first African woman to achieve the distinction. Ikú dóró. news.artnet.com/art-world/ko...

Koyo Kouoh, 2026 Venice Biennale Curator, Dies Suddenly | Artnet News

Koyo Kouoh, executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA and curator of the next Venice Biennale, died suddenly overnight.

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"Historically, my body was considered stronger, like a mule’s. Bodies like mine were once experimented on without the use of anesthesia, our skin too thick to feel the pain." www.guernicamag.com/strong-as-a-...

Strong as a Mule, Thick as a Rope

“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body.” –Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body.

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I am ecstatic to announce the OFFICIAL crowdfunding launch of our speculative BIPOC anthology, Amorphaville—a collection of poetry & flash fiction from 20+ BIPOC writers examining the fluidity of time. Campaign is linked in my bio. We hope you’ll join us in supporting BIPOC art! 🚀 #WritingCommunity

Celebrating International Mother Language Day at Goethe Institut Lagos Yoruba poetry from @AremoGemini.

Ohhh mmmm geee this is your weekend MUST READ

Molara Wood@molarawood.bsky.social · last yr.

"I first came across him in a Pakistan newspaper column and the name struck me—as the kids have already abandoned saying—right in the feels. “Iggy Fernandes.” How could it not, with such a rockstarry formulation?" www.guernicamag.com/iggy/

"I first came across him in a Pakistan newspaper column and the name struck me—as the kids have already abandoned saying—right in the feels. “Iggy Fernandes.” How could it not, with such a rockstarry formulation?" www.guernicamag.com/iggy/

Iggy

I was looking for a trace, a whiff, a rumor—anything that would bring alive the greatest guitarist you’d never heard about.

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Nobody does the longstanding standard bookshop in Nigeria like the folks in Ibadan. Such an old and familiar joy browsing through The Booksellers outlet on the aptly named Magazine Road in Jericho, Ibadan, earlier today. Now 30 years in the business, they're not to be beat.

"The war, that, when started on 11 October 1899 had been expected by the British public to end by Christmas of the same year, but ended with thousands of deaths for the British, the Boer and the Africans who were collateral damage." #Fiction #ZukiswaWanner www.guernicamag.com/broken-endin...

Broken Endings, Uncertain Geneses

Coupled with her Tannie Sallie being ill, her mama and Elsie’s death and everything that had happened in this camp, her little mind was so sure that more cruelty would kill her.

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"These pieces come to us from South Africa, Lebanon, Sudan, Italy, Palestine, and Mexico; they are at times mournful, at times contemplative, and at times optimistic." www.guernicamag.com/the-january-...

The January Issue

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"The climate issues Lagos faces are due to bad planning, mismanagement, lack of efficient drainage systems and human refusal to respect the ocean." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

A future in jeopardy for Nigerian coastal communities facing rising seas

In Akodo-Ise in Lagos, homes, livelihoods and even graves have been lost to ocean encroachment due to climate change.

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"The activist in this story was also hounded by the manipulative legal powers of the civilian government to stifle the human rights of the voices of the people. There is no doubt that this story stretches its meanings beyond the year of publishing." www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/a-re...

A Review of Molara Wood’s Indigo

Indigo is the first collection of short stories offered by Molara Wood. It is a departure from her terrain of journalism and editorial practice in the culture space. This book of stories represents a ...

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Today’s #readingrecommendation is #LightinGaza edited by Jehad Abusalim et al. It brings together a magnificent polyphony of Gazan voices & is an essential read and reference. PS I am teaching it today but I did warn this was a personal list #readpalestineweek

I have a story in the forthcoming anthology, 'Devotion in the Open Air', published by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social. ✍🏾 Pre-order link: inkedingray.com/books/devoti...

I was recently on BBC Radio 4, discussing - amongst other things - the Pauletta/Denzel Washington-family produced film, The Piano Lesson, which I loved! I will add on to this with reasons why when I have a bit of time... Click and listen. Have a fab weekend!! 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Review: The Piano Lesson, Florence 1504, Jonathan Coe's The Proof of My Innocence

We review The Piano Lesson, the latest film from Denzel Washington and his family.

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