Nancy Adimora
@NancAdimora
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Publishing Babe • Founder @AFREADA • Building @OtherStoriesHQ • †
Joined June 2009
Still not sure how I ended up in publishing but what a journey it’s been! Delighted to be launching @OtherStoriesHQ and I’m grateful to all the beautiful souls who have supported me along the way. Looking forward to championing our stories and breaking all the rules…
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Taking a long (hopefully permanent) break from Twitter. I’m a LinkedIn girlie now. See you there. x
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"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
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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.
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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.
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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... https://t.co/FTMVrtjPEc
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The Nigerian-American writer on the genesis of his new novel, history’s riches and the US’s ‘film of filth’
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Was feeling exhausted after a long week, remembered this tweet, then got out of bed and headed straight to @154artfair. Sharing in case anyone else needs a creative recharge - last day is tomorrow:
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Celebrating its tenth anniversary in London, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to Somerset House.
I’m learning that rest is more active than passive. I used to think that rest just meant ‘not working’ - but it's really about plugging yourself into things that restore your energy. Rest should feel restorative. Like you’re charging yourself up to go again.
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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.
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"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 → https://t.co/EXFkCNKe1p
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But then again, Kish acquired/edited it, so I’m not surprised.
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Everyone’s giving this book five stars and I need you to believe the hype. @SafiyaSinclair left no crumbs. Powerful story, gorgeous writing, one of the best books I’ve read this year.
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“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
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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
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.@NancAdimora, formerly talent and audience development manager at @HarperCollinsUK, is launching OtherStories ⬇️
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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. 😭
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