If you’ve seen Gboyega Odubanjo (also known as Yega) since early hours of Saturday morning, either at Shambala/Kelmarsh area or in London please reach out. Details are below with updated description of his clothing. Share & circulate w/ ur network

This is a better photo of what Yega was wearing. We’re still looking for him, please keep sharing

Yega is still missing and his friends and family are incredibly worried. Please circulate the details and get in touch with the police if you have any info theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

Two years ago, I received an unexpected msg from a woman called Jane, an adoptee from #Bangladesh, who wanted to learn more about where she was from. Jane was one of thousands of babies born to victims of rape during Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War. bit.ly/3RwUiqN

Had a lovely chat with @JosephACoelho Children's Laureate as he completed the final leg of his UK-wide library marathon 📚 ✨

Literary Palestine: Mohamed-Salah Omri, Professor of modern Arabic literature at the University of Oxford, will lead and coordinate a series of participative seminars to read and discuss Palestine through its literatures mohamedsalahomri.com/literary-pales…

We're thrilled to announce our 2023-24 Steering Group, made up of our Creative Access community! Lizzy Burden & Cameron Myers - members of our pilot group - have also joined our board of non-execs; the first of our alumni to do so. Find our more here: creativeaccess.org.uk/latest/creativ…

I was so fortunate to talk about pirates, witches, novels, and the real Hannah Masury with Alice Kemp-Habib for The Guardian. Thank you! #ATrueAccount #piratenovel theguardian.com/books/2023/nov…

Memoricide 💔 Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed. lithub.com/gazas-main-pub…

This reminded me of what Pakistan did in Bangladesh. It also specifically targeted academics, Bengali intelligentsia, etc. I only found out fairly recently that the works of Tagore were banned too. It’s a way of annihilating a people so they can’t rebuild, reimagine and recreate.

Refugee Boy, Face, Gangsta Rap, Teacher’s Dead. There were three or four authors that really nurtured my love of reading as a child and Benjamin Zephaniah was one of them. RIP to a legend ❤️

A moral failure so total that the whole West should just walk into the fucking sea.

My latest for Guardian culture. I spoke to the “mother of contemporary African dance” about developing her pioneering technique in post-independence Senegal + her duet with Malou Airaudo, which comes to Sadler's Wells this April

"[I don't know] if it’s even ethical to advise anyone to go into this industry any more" Wholeheartedly agree. I loved my journalism BA but the idea that there are students spending tens of thousands on the same course today, with 0 guarantee of work at the end of it, is 🤯

My interview with Kathryn Scanlan, winner of the Gordon Burn Prize, was published by Guardian Books on Fri. Kick The Latch really challenges the idea of what a novel could/should be. I loved reading it and really enjoyed writing this piece ⬇️

Excited to be involved in this screening happening at JGPACA towards the end of March ~~~