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Everyone’s talking about Fourth Wing and I really don’t want to read it (because why would I read a book about dragons?) but I think I might have to. 😭

New gem from Courier. If they published it, I'm buying it.

May our current ceilings be our future floors.

When Ginika said, “I think you’re depressed.” Ifemelu shook her head and turned to the window. Depression was what happened to Americans, with their self-absolving need to turn everything into an illness. “I don’t have depression,” she said. Years later... #WorldMentalHealthDay

“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo put it concretely in their proverb: onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya. He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.” — Chinua Achebe

"A Sunday Mirror article from 1969 features a headshot of Margaret Busby with the caption ‘girl from Ghana starts a publishing firm’..." Margaret Busby, the pioneering publisher, is switching positions and writing her first book as an author → thebookseller.com/rights/hamish-…

We may be witnessing the total obliteration of Gaza. Political leaders refusing to speak out should feel eternal shame over the horror they are allowing to unfold. Those of us who believe in peace cannot stay silent. We must say to the Palestinian people: you are not alone.

Was feeling exhausted after a long week, remembered this tweet, then got out of bed and headed straight to 1-54 Art Fair. Sharing in case anyone else needs a creative recharge - last day is tomorrow: somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/1-54-…

“Sometimes this is how we therapy” Oil on canvas by April Kamunde. Spotted at 1-54 Art Fair.

Teju Cole: ‘Fiction has to touch on your bruises’ Twelve years after Open City met with wide acclaim, this month marks Cole’s return to fiction. Poignant and playfully polyphonic, the new novel, Tremor, tracks a middle-aged man called Tunde... ft.com/content/425213…

Watch the official trailer for #AmericanFiction, starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, and Sterling K. Brown. From Writer/Director Cord Jefferson. Only in theaters this December.

Life is a Marketplace. Cairo, Eygpt • Photo by Shaimaa Fekry • Words by Chikodili is

Straightened my hair for an event I was speaking at this afternoon, flicked and slicked it to perfection, left home and everything was going great, and then… rain. Rain, wind and a broken umbrella. It will never be well with this country.

"Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Mood.

Taking a long (hopefully permanent) break from Twitter. I’m a LinkedIn girlie now. See you there. x linkedin.com/in/nadimora