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Books I’ve read in 2024?
Let’s go!
📚📚🤞🏽
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they said, “do you love her to death?”
“i said, “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life”
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o insisted that the language of African literature should be in indigenous languages to be considered as African literature. 🌚 Achebe contradicted him.
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I didn’t die. Almost did.
Graduated with a 4.0 CGPA
I almost didn’t
I’ve read over 60 books.
The initial goal was 28
I attended Ake Festival ✨
Highlight of my bookish year
Stepped out of my comfort zone
It was hard. I crewwd 🤧
I started a newsletter.🤭
Women, brag about what you’ve achieved in the year 2023🎉
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Started listening to
#Archetypes
by Meghan Markle on
@Spotify
and I love it. The topics, the guests, the montage, the theme song 😍, and Meghan's voice. Really love what she's doing with that platform.
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One of the interesting things about reading is that sometimes you see yourself clearly in the pages of a book. Everything Good Will Come is one of such books for me. The richness and depth of the story Sefi Atta has spurned is worth studying. I’m grateful for writers like her.🫶🏽
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Taking pictures of my books and simply admiring their beauty rather than actually reading them has become an acquired taste. 🥹
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I just saw the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in real life, guys!😭🥹🥹
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All my favourite writers are not sleeping; Aiwanose Odafen, Onyi Nwabineli, Chigozie Obioma etc etc. Even my Chief, Chimamanda Adichie, is already working on a novel 🤭. 2024 is looking really promising for us readers.💃🏽
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I. Was. Born. A. Bookworm. There’s just no other way. I have always loved books.
How did you become a book lover.
I know you weren't born a bookworm.🙄
So how did you find love with books?
Tell us.
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I finished reading Tomorrow Died Yesterday and I’m not okay😭
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@CynthiaObinatu
Achebe was one of those writers that used the English language to do whatever he wanted the language to do. He made the language work for him. 🤌🏽
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“Don’t let the pressure of those eating their harvest, make you eat your seed.”
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Compliments of the season from the books that graced my shelf in 2023.❤️🫶🏽
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🤭🤭
February book(s) dump, let's have it.
How many books were you able to read?
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#Dump
#BookTwt
#AfricanBooks
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Is there a writer that read Open Water by Caleb Azuma Nelson and didn’t love it?
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Me sef try small. 🤎
Igboro o rerin rara 😩
We go again next year!!🤭
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I’ve written three poems this year. No, they’re not perfect but if you look closely you’ll see every rate and pulse of my heartbeat in them. ❤️
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Happy World Book Day! Here’s to falling deeper in love with delicious literature that makes our souls sing. 💛💛
#WorldBookDay2023
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February has been a hectic month for me but I managed to squeeze in five books. None of them is a miss.❤️ Can’t be suffering in real life and reading tasteless literature at the same time 🫠
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I’m glad I read this this one.
A book you read this year that made you very happy? 😁
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I'm having the best time of my life when a book is making me feel deeply, introducing me to new things and also holding up a mirror for me to see myself clearly.
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I’m excited for these two atm 🤭. I just started No One Dies Yet but someone has died already. 👀
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Y’all I started this book this morning in transit and its gore hits immediately. I was not warned.🥺 And what’s more?! I am intrigued 😭
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I took up pattern drawing.
TL CLEANSE! Quote this tweet with literally anything else. A photo, a quote, an observation, what you’re listening to, watching, reading. Literally anything else. Please!!
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Proud to say I’ve read both books. 🤭
To Women on a Wednesday.
Celebrating the Ghanaian-American novelist, Yaa Gyasi. Popularly known for her debut novel "Homegoing (2016)" which won her a couple of awards. In the year 2020, she released another novel, "Transcendent Kingdom".
Which of her books have you read?
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@EChukwuanugo
Can I just say that I love Achebe and Okigbo’s bromance. And yes, Ola Rotimi snapped with The Gods Are Not to Blame.
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Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
A Conspiracy of Ravens by Othuke Ominiabohs
Toads For Supper by Chukwuemeka Ike
A Broken People’s Playlist by Chimeka Garricks
Today being
#InternationalMensDay
, we celebrate the literary giants that has shaped African Literature into what it is today by molding our collective shared African experiences into words and paper through their pens.
What's your favorite African Book(s) written by a male…
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I’m currently reading this.✨✨
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😎🤭
Did you visit
#AkeFest23
Retro Photo Booth?
If your answer is yes, reply with a picture you took at the Photo Booth
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Here you go 🫶🏽.
I'm sad, please send book pictures. 😔😞
Bookish people on the timeline, please quote this tweet, or comment with beautiful bookish pictures. Bless my timeline, guys.
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I’m reading these two and Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Sanya is giving me immense pleasure, Yellow Wife is breaking my heart open and Julius Caesar is just T o fulfill all righteousness.
Hello
#BookTwitter
What is everyone reading this weekend? Please quote this tweet, or comment with your current read.
I'll go first... 🥰
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Not totally one with the idea of discrediting other writers to elevate another. Just tell us this person is good and put a period to it. If you’re feeling generous you can then tell us why you think so.
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Your poems don’t need to include archaic expressions or big words for it to communicate your profound thoughts. You can hide in plain sight using simple language and it’d still resonate deeply with readers.
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@MpBea1
His intentions are good, but I worry about his method. Shunning the language of the colonialist while decrying the evils of neocolonialism has its limitations. But I guess that’s why we have translators.
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Women 🫶🏽
To Women on a Wednesday.
Your favorite African Literature book written by a woman? Let's have it!
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#WomenAuthors
#WomenWriters
#BookTwitter
#AfricanBooks
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🤎🤎
In honor of World
#Afrohairday
, quote this tweet with a picture of you with your hair out.😌
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Four pics, one weekend.
I went for the Live recording of the Something Bookish podcast at RovingHeights and it was an experience. 🔥🤭 I met the Amyn!🤭 I was internally doing all the hysterics of fangirling but I kept it cool outside.😂 Had a great time & I look fw to the ep.✌🏽
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The Yoruba girl and English Language graduate in me are both thoroughly impressed by this poem. Check it out here
#AfricanPoets2024
#Day4
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I cannot believe I've gone through SIXTEEN books in February. This has been an insane month of avoiding reality. wow!
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This is the one. ✨✨
An African book you read this year and you rated 5 stars.
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#AfricanBooks
#BookTwitter
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Slide 1 - 9/12 of the 2023 Indulgent Bibliophile’s reads. Excellent range.🔥✨
Slide 2 - Me prepping for 2024. 💫
I’m just so grateful for the many lifetimes I get to experience in this one of mine.❤️
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I’m a reader
Of course I read five different books in three different formats at the same time.🤭
Of course I am a reader. People will always drag me for reading too many books. 😂
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Poem no 2. For ’Maye.
I’ve written three poems this year. No, they’re not perfect but if you look closely you’ll see every rate and pulse of my heartbeat in them. ❤️
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I’m thoroughly enjoying the chaos slowly unfolding in this book.
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Small Joys 🩵
Sat with this book today and felt all my feelings. “How satisfying, how reassuring, to know you could save your own life from loneliness.”
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chigozie Obioma
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Yaa Gyasi
Kikelomo Kuponiyi
Ali Hazelwood
Ayobami Adebayo
Bisi Adjapon
Want to tell us the authors that you've read all their books?
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“I tell myself that life is incomprehensible. We need death to bring us back together.”
When they say literature is a connective force that binds our experiences together, they never lied. Such poignant story, such depth and death rolled into beauty. ❤️
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Day 1: A recent Nigerian literature I absolutely love. 💛💛
Day 1 of posting Nigerian books on the timeline. You can join this challenge too. Let's make it a 30 day challenge. You can quote this tweet, comment or make your own personal tweet. But use the hash tag
#Nigerianliterature
Let's gooooo
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Sadé, I am clueless
What do I make of my love for you that rises with the morning yellow sun and sets with the evening orange sun?
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First ten tweets I saw as I came on Twitter is about Vagabonds! Omo! The force this book is gathering I don't think this world can contain it. ❤
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Won a slot to attend TARF at Ake Fest!!!!
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Am I the only one that gets stomach ache from being anxious?
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It's just the title for me. Soro Soke feels too personal, too peculiar to us for a foreigner to adopt as a book title even if the book is actually about us.
✍️ New blog
'Soro Soke: The Young Disruptors of an African Megacity | 5 questions to Trish Lorenz'
📙
@NineDotsPrize
winner Trish Lorenz talks about her book on the Soro Soke generation in African megacities and what inspired her to write it.
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Books I read in January🫰🏽
I could only read three books and I absolutely loved the separate experiences that subsumed me while I read all of them. I certainly hope I get to read more books in February.🤞🏽
Photo of YMAFODWYB by Faber and Faber.
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Holiday Hopefuls!
I'm hoping to get through at least half of this stack, because I'm not going to lie and say I've got this. 👀
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@TrustAwt
Sadly, I haven't read any Angolan literature. I should rectify that. Recommendations, please?
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This is why I started a newsletter. I missed writing for myself so much.
We don't talk enough about how draining it is to write for money and how much it stifles your creative ability to write what you actually like for yourself.
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@favromancequote
I just know it’s Inej talking. I’ve not read the books but their connection in the movie is enough evidence. 🥹
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I found a new love. 💙💙 Someday, Maybe has a special place in my heart.
@OnyiWrites
this book wrecked me but I can't complain 'cause it's soo good. 😭😍
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“Make love to me like we’ve never known violence.” 🥺
I found a poem that I want to live the rest of my days in. 🥹
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Day 2: This one has an unhinged character.
#Nigerianliterature
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Now I’m so looking forward to wearing that graduation gown and softly whispering to my mother (hoping she’ll be listening) that I did that. It’s been such a long journey that I’ve almost forgotten how to be happy about it. But I am so proud of myself. So proud. 🫂❤️
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Manifesting convocation book gifts and moneyyyyy🤭
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“If I were married, I would need my husband’s consent to get a new passport. He would be entitled to discipline me with a slap or two, so long as he doesn’t cause me grievous bodily harm.”
Cheers to the weekend.
Share a quote from your current weekend read?
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#booktwt
#AfricanBooks
#Bookish
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I envy people whose parents could share the joy of their graduation shoot. So wholesome.
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“For you a thousand times over.”
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“There's so much mediocre shit in this world, love should not be one of them.”
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I love all these tweets about Vagabonds by
@eloosunde
and I absolutely can't wait to experience its transcendental magic . It's coming out in May, my birth month. There's no way I'm not going to gift myself a copy.
There are doors in the work & I know I can go through them. There’s a softness in
@eloosunde
’s words that seems almost permissible. it doesn’t redeem you but it says come as you are, whoever you are, broken or whole. Escape. She writes a world you don’t have to be worthy to enter
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I just finished reading
@LeyeAdenle
's When Trouble Sleeps and I must say that it is one hell of a book! Whew! Amaka and her trouble riddled life has opened many facets of the going ons in Nigeria. Now, I must read all published books by Leye. I doff my imaginary hat, sir!
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I first read Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness in 2021 and this was how I felt about it (2nd photo). My feelings haven’t changed, in fact I feel inclined to share a few things I feel strongly about since rereading it.
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“Is there a greater flex than love?”
Rizz or love quotes from books. Let's have it!!!
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2024 is another year to give Poetry a chance. It is worth it.🥹
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Book 60 what?? 😭 I'm obviously not doing this reading thing right. Jk😂 But you, you're doing amazing 🙌🏽🤗
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I'm so glad that African novels exist, that they are accessible and that I get to read them.
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3. Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta
Storytelling at its finest.🫰🏽
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I don’t think I can say that there’s one book that has changed my life. There are several books I walk into and emerge as new as dawn. They filled me with such vigour and big dreams and endless joy to have experienced them. From Purple Hibiscus to, recently, Lessons in Chemistry.
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This is everything 🥹❤️
AFTER YEARS OF TYPING, I GET TO HOLD MY BOOK IN MY HANDS AHH😭😭
preorder:
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