Erin🐘Folami😍
@RahmaOJimoh
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Ashes @AfricanPoetryBF ‘25 || MFA @UofAlabama || Building @TFRBookClub || https://t.co/xYCes83vHR
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Joined March 2017
I remember writing and designing a short story with plain A4 papers, markers and a very beautiful stamp when I was about 7/8 years old. I wanted even then to be an author, I was reading books voraciously and I wanted to create mine too. 1/5
24 hours since some copies of my debut chapbook arrived & I have not unboxed, still watching authors unboxing videos on insta💀😂. Very unusual & unlike me btw🤭.
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She told me her birthday is on Sunday and I’m going to make sure I get her a gift🫶✨
I love this woman❤️. Such a queen😍🫶✨
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Writers: describe your current project in a single emoji. Go.
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Astonishing. I’m from the Cross River rainforest. Girls go days & nights in the forest for ogbono and wild afang as a coming of age thing. Traditions that are gradually being eroded because of development/deforestation/insecurity. But see twitter? Do you even know this country?
Ogbono is not Igbo soup. It is Yoruba soup and it is called ọbẹ̀ àpọ̀n in Yoruba. The seed of a wild mango is what they use to make àpọ̀n soup. Wild mango is called òro in Yoruba language. In Ibadan panegyrics, they praise Ibadan people as ọmọ a j'òro sùn. Ibadan wasn't
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Wrote this last year after a chat with my mom. It's worrisome how many and multiple heartbreaking things keep happening. I really don't know.
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Divisive narratives hurt us more and miss the point! Whether the Kebbian girls kidnapped are Muslims or Christians is hardly the point. Are we saying that either deserves such wickedness? These are lives! Young lives forever altered! Since when did lives become so dispensable!
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jummah: • send salawat • read surah kahf • make dua between asr & maghrib • look your best • listen to the khutbah attentively • smile at a stranger to my menstruating girls: send salawat, make dhikr, give charity, listen to surah kahf, & fill your tongue with istighfar.
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Whatever you’re going through, as long as you’re not pregnant and you didn’t impregnate anyone, you will be alright.
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We are delighted to introduce Little Republic, an interactive children's book series designed to introduce young readers and their families to the richness of Africa's cultural heritage, mythology, and storytelling traditions.
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I think I made my most sales in a day today too. 13 copies today>>>😃. Truly grateful.
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My blessings and character outweigh any LIES told about me. The older I get, the less I address.
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In a culture where some people excuse rape and don’t see it as a big deal, this discomfiting truth is not at all uncomfortable to them.
They are going to schools to kidnap girls so they can rape virgins. Raped through the night. We need to sit with uncomfortable truths. We should not be allowed to block out the horrific stories. From wearing school uniforms to being married off, pregnant, dying in childbirth.
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These two poems in my chap🤍, may Nigeria not happen to us🤲.
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Touching, reflective, and unflinchingly honest, MRS KUTI offers a rare glimpse into the life and mind of Remilekun Kuti—teacher, activist, and the first wife of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. This posthumous memoir challenges the silences surrounding women in radical histories
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Big shout out to @ApplesAndSnakes and @YomiSode for the podcast series spotlighting Black British poets. It’s been an anchor of sorts in the season I’m in, authentically inspiring stuff.
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