Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬 (@afrosypaella) 's Twitter Profile
Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬

@afrosypaella

Chronicler of Black cultural memory | Author of two beautiful books | Rep: @RhetoricAndThis | A shining star who cannot be contained ✨

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It’s a weird feeling to feel spiritually tethered to the South as a Black woman with roots between Georgia, Alabama & Tennessee but…feel like you need to leave the South in order to soar. I’m struggling with this myself honestly.

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The season finale of #Hacks nearly made me seize when it was suggested that Deborah died and I was so relieved that didn’t happen that it distracted me from how once again she was on time to be predictably cruel to Ava. Such a great show but the emotional rollercoaster!!!!

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My running theory is that a lot of men who perform material generosity online with pictures & videos of their grand gestures to an audience of strangers are terrorizing the women that they’re with offline. It’s all a show and their abuse is the hidden stage.

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I think one of the most damning parts of adulthood is having to contend with what you thought was mostly difficult friends & family but was really abuse. Naming that abuse outright + how it has shaped your nervous system can be healing but initially is shocking & so fucking sad.

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After Atlanta, Brian Tyree Henry Is “Reclaiming” His Name Following Donald Glover’s juggernaut and Dope Thief, Henry is ready for a new phase. “I want to get to the cashmere level of my career: I get to be in love. I get to be kissed.” vanityfair.com/hollywood/bria…

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HELLO. The average American reads at a 7th grade level. Publications lean into this captioning bc the avg consumer *engages* with it and — I hate to say it — neglects heavily reported stories. Was always baffling to see which stories performed well at HuffPost & which didn’t.

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The greatest part about being assertive as hell + never hesitating to set a boundary or communicate a limit is that it almost always works out in your favor. You can’t be accommodated if you don’t speak up though.

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I’m about to board a flight for one of the greatest trips of my career for the next week. Feeling blessed, grateful and a little weepy. See y’all on the other side.

I’m about to board a flight for one of the greatest trips of my career for the next week. Feeling blessed, grateful and a little weepy. See y’all on the other side.
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When my grandma led the cooking, we ate by 3pm. When my mom, aunts and uncles led the cooking, we ate by 6pm. When my siblings, cousins and I cook, we eat at 10:45pm.

When my grandma led the cooking, we ate by 3pm.

When my mom, aunts and uncles led the cooking, we ate by 6pm.  

When my siblings, cousins and I cook, we eat at 10:45pm.
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I dated someone who was 34 when I was 28. I get the hesitancy around age gaps in relationships but this is not that. Let’s please wrap this insufferable discourse up.

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Darkchild told me the story of making "Say My Name" by Destiny's Child, revealing that the song was inspired by a trip to the UK with the Spice Girls and that it was made in one day:

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No shade but *these* are the people who insist on keeping their exes as friends after a breakup. 😭 Highly prefer my method of nuking folks out of my life than this pedantic nonsense.

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Tipsy off two glasses of cava and about to get ready for dinner, drinks and being beautiful. Also: I’m on a Viking cruise for the next week! 🤭 A dream! 🥹🚢✨

Tipsy off two glasses of cava and about to get ready for dinner, drinks and being beautiful. Also: I’m on a Viking cruise for the next week! 🤭 A dream! 🥹🚢✨
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People I don’t want be around: - folk who say interesting like inner-rehst-ting - those who only put on lotion on the parts of their legs that will be seen in their outfit - folk who keep all their exes in their friendship circle to prove their morality - misogynists & racists