Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
@AyaRoots
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🇹🇹WHEN WE WERE BIRDS (2022) OCM Bocas Prize, Author’s Club First Novel Award, Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award | Agent - Tracy Bohan, Wylie Agency
Norwich/Trinidad & Tobago
Joined April 2009
Well, damn 🔥
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A world of different perspectives. Our latest @bookshop_org_UK shelf spotlights @nbolitfest 2025 participants – a reading list of insightful storytelling for our times. Dive in! https://t.co/xkuvvXWrrp
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Cécile Fatiman was a mambo, a Haitian vodou priestess. She is famous for her participation in the vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman, which is considered to be the starting point of the Haitian Revolution. #negritude #PanAfricanism #Haiti #Ayiti #CecileFatiman #haitianheritage
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more courage and compassion than the whole of Israeli army. An unarmed Palestinian doctor who refused to abandon his patients against an Israeli tank. one of the defining images of genocide in the 21st century
Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is seen in his medical coat approaching Israeli soldiers and tanks storming the hospital. He is now detained for running the last hospital serving northern Gaza amid Israeli attacks.
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🚨The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant https://t.co/oQJ0vo6c6l
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Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions...
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"The double standards and continued resourcing of these ongoing violations of international law send a chilling message. There are some powerful people who are of the view a Palestinian child is less worthy of defense, protection, food, water & life. I am not of that view..."
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Just so y'all know, the 45 day Israeli military closure of Al-Jazeera in The West Bank exactly corresponds with the US presidential elections on November 5th. Because of course it does. Settler violence never plays well...
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An entire army is trying to silence a group of journalists dedicated to telling the stories of Palestinians to the world. Shutting down our offices won’t stop our voices. We will continue reporting - until our last breath.
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🏆The 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is open for submissions.🏆 Now in its 15th year, the prize celebrates books of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by writers of Caribbean birth/citizenship. Info at https://t.co/94vgKXGQtf
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In the words of the great Jab King: JAB COULD NEVER HIDE. 🇬🇩 This video recap of Spicemas 2024 in Grenada makes me very emotional. Black people are so powerful beyond measure. The Caribbean will always be a Cultural Capital of the world! 🖤 #SpicemasPressPosse
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$20b in weapons to continue a genocide they say is not happening.
hard to comprehend sheer inhumanity of Biden admin approving $20 billion arms deal to Israel knowing the country has killed 15,000 kids in Gaza, including 115 newborns. 17,000 kids are separated from families, & likely 4,000 kids — a 9/11 of just kids — still buried under rubble
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Get ready to hear a LOT in the next few weeks about how disinfo created the riots – new social media legislation, endless reports about Twitter and Telegram – and absolutely ZERO about mainstreaming of Islamophobia, social disintegration accelerated by austerity etc
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Sometimes for your own things to come home, you have to return the things you’ve taken.
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Israel bombed refugee tents in the very Muwasi area they designated as Gaza’s sole “safe zone”, then bombed fire fighters that came to the rescue. A carnage of epic proportions, with about 50-100 people murdered!
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How is this not genocide. My god.
BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. https://t.co/HaRTAvTvVI
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Just your everyday, routine casual, dehumanisation 😡
Good morning and a hearty "Fuck you" to US reporters describing Caribbean islands as "speed bumps" for hurricanes.
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Is it me or is this mad for June? Stay safe my Caribbean 💙
Update: 11:35 AM AST Sunday - Reconnaissance aircraft find #Beryl has strengthen into an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane with maximum winds of 130 mph. Life-threatening winds and storm surge expected in the Windward Islands beginning early Monday morning. Latest at
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355 bullets. If you’re still supporting this, supporting the killing of kids in Gaza, you’re a sociopath. No other word for it.
Forensic investigation reveals Hind Rajab's car was hit with 355 bullets and finds it "not plausible" that the Israeli tank couldn't see children inside the car https://t.co/Jwb8bvGHh6
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Yesss @kevinjhosein!! 🎉🎉🎉
The Caribbean writer @KevinJHosein has won the £25,000 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction 2024 for his novel HUNGRY GHOSTS (@bloomsburybooks), which tells the story of marginalised Hindu communities in colonial 1940s Trinidad. #histfic #HungryGhosts
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