On public officials blocking citizens’ discourse online ~ Democracy supposes checks & balances and public scrutiny. Without either, we’re not having a public discourse for the betterment of our collective society and aren’t as a result democratic. Period. #SaloneX #SierraLeone

Freetown get ready! Screening of #WhereMyMemoryBegan (& more ✨ ) is coming up! Thank you African Film Festival, Inc. !!

Next Week: The Narrative 4 Artists Network is collaborating with Global Citizens Circle to bring you an insightful discussion on peace featuring artists Ishmael Beah, Libby Hoffman and Judith Thompson. Wednesday, June 12, 12:00-1:30pm EST Register here hubs.li/Q02zZqfS0

Awesome work Ishmael Beah! We're delighted to inform you that "A Long Way Gone" made it to BookAuthority's list of best Sierra Leone Civil War books of all time! bookauthority.org/books/best-sie…

Always inspired by #SierraLeone young creatives, creating so much with close to no opportunities, that’s art! #SaloneX

Looking forward to being in conversation with Nigerian American author Chigozie Obioma about his latest work, The Road to the Country, available worldwide including at Kenyan bookstore Cheche Books ! Grab a copy and join us to chat literature! 🇳🇬🇰🇪🇸🇱

Can’t believe I’m an Atlantic fellow on racial equity🥲The honor to see my ideas selected in this line up & to create on blackness as an act to resist racial erasure in #Iranian discourse is unreal. Can’t wait!!! University of Oxford NelsonMandela Columbia University Atlantic Fellows Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity

“Those who tell you ‘don’t put too much politics in your art,’ aren’t being honest. If you look very carefully you’ll see that they are the same people who are quite happy with the situation as it is…What they are saying is don’t upset the system...” ~ Chinua Achebe #SaloneX

So excited to be an Atlantic Fellows and amongst this impressive line up of thinkers, no less! With an announcement on NelsonMandela account saying so!! I just can’t believe my eyes sometimes🥲 Grateful. 🤲🏾

William Cordery Freedom Futures Ta'Mara Hill 2024 Fellow Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda (Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda) is a film director who "creatively [recentres] ancestral Black Iranian narratives & [contributes] to shaping Black South-West Asia & North African (SWANA) points of view." Learn more about Priscillia: racialequity.atlanticfellows.org/fellow/priscil….

Your silence will not protect you. audre lorde #SaloneX

Never would I have thought that critical thinking would still be received as such a threat in my country & tbh, I’m still processing the silencing of my voice by the ruling elite. One thing is for sure: it can’t silence me bc how can a writer be silent? #SierraLeone #SaloneX

Excited to read the stories submitted for House of Salone writing lab August 31st, in #Freetown! Looking forward to discovering critical literary voices from #SierraLeone Watch this reel to find out how to submit your stories & get a chance at joining our writing lab! #SaloneX

What an incredible experience! Congratulations again to all selected writers & thank you Ishmael Beah for sharing your knowledge with young #SierraLeone writers! #SaloneX #SaloneTwitter

We are proud of this production for EU in Sierra Leone ! Thank you for the trust! And congratulations to the new Erasmus winners! #SaloneX #SaloneTwitter

Just bc there are realities you don’t know exist & points of view you’ve never heard, doesn’t mean they’re not real. It just means you’ve been so privileged that all you’ve heard has been the dominant voice & that loud homogeneity cannot equip you for life’s diverse possibilities

“The first artificial intelligence road that will be completed in less than one year”😂 Africans are so intelligent, what a sketch! This could very well have been leones and the country #SierraLeone #SaloneX #AI

Hear it from our amazing writers! The Haus #writinglab was everything writers in #SierraLeone need!! Spread the word fam!! #SaloneX #Salonetwitter

At Haus of Salone: we don’t ignore what happens to our people. For Sia and all the girls and women victims of domestic violence who remain nameless, we remain enraged. 🖤 🕊️ Rest in power. #SaloneX #Salonetwitter #Freetownstories

Exhausted of being heartbroken. We’ve had so many preventable loss of lives in #SierraLeone #SaloneX