Yaba Badoe
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Writer and documentary filmmaker Agent @MWHamilton
London, England
Joined July 2017
Back with another Black History Month story about Joseph Johnson, aka 'Black Joe' - a seaman discharged from the Merchant Navy when he was wounded. He couldn’t get a pension so to earn money he became a street singer who built & wore a model of the sailing ship Nelson on his head
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All we'd need to do to raise a generation of confident feminists - confident in all things, including knowing the definition of 'women' - is to make @TheAttagirls a daily set text.
Woman of the Day Violet Milstead born OTD 1919 in Toronto, the longest serving Canadian pilot in the Air Transport Auxiliary. She was so tiny - just over 5’ tall - that sometimes she had to perch on a parachute pack so she could see out of the cockpit windscreen. Violet wanted
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Hello @Art4PalestineUK @yaba_badoe
Palestinian writer Basem Khendaqji, recently released as part of the exchange deal and exiled to Egypt, embraces his novels for the first time. These works were printed and distributed secretly during his 21 years in Israeli prisons. His novel "Mask the Color of the Sky" has
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Just one day left to get 25% off my next novel, High & Low @AbacusBooks. Not out til 7 May, but think of it as an early/late Xmas present, if you have a writer in the family… it’s about a group of novelists under siege in a literary cafe! Also about the state we’re in.
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J.D. Vance says it's OK to joke about gas chambers, rape, and "watermelon people", but if you quote Charlie Kirk you'll get your VISA revoked
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The Tate has announced what it has bought from the Frieze Art Fair. It includes this marvellous drawing by Barbara Walker. Called 'End of the Affair'. Splendid purchase. Walker has dynamite in her fingers. It was great to give here the Sky Arts award this year. #BarbaraWalker
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And yes, Ivo Sponge IS BACK
My forthcoming 9th novel High & Low @AbacusBooks is at a 25% discount for 3 days if you preorder #OCTOBER26. It’s a State of the Nation novel & thriller about a street of shops under siege - and sequel to A Vicious Circle because some are writers in a Literary Cafe! RT
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Look at how the vet industry is ripping off pet owners. Then think what private healthcare providers will do once they get their hands on the NHS.
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Thrilled to see the superb @LissaKEvans great comic novel Small Bomb at Dimperley on this. Well done judges!
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#HWACrowns25 27/ends
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In partnership with Stephen Graham & Orly Klein, we're launching a major project asking fathers to write a letter to their sons about what it means to be a man. Written by you, Letters to Our Sons will be a collection of honest, powerful and moving letters https://t.co/eRIYYQcrmZ
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell
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The teenager said it herself in one interview: ‘I don't have my phone, I can't go on the internet, I don't know what's going on around me right now.’
This was probably the most striking part of the lecture and something she obviously felt very strongly about. Mishal Husain: Media treated Shamima Begum differently as a Muslim. https://t.co/j2hYVpwj5Z
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For Black History Month, I am highlighting Pablo Flanque from Norwich the 1st Black English circus owner (& possibly the world) who became famous for his ‘extraordinary’ shows. His name would later become immortalised in the Beatles song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite’
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The nasty anti Starmer stuff on this site is boarding on psychotic. On the other hand, he seemed to be upsetting all the right sort of people. Far right flag obsessives and reform devotees who don’t care their party is bought and paid for by Russians.
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'Reads like a Claire Keegan short story expanded by Elizabeth Strout.' The Times Love Forms, the heart-aching novel from Claire Adam (@Claire_Trini), is just £1.89 on Kindle today: https://t.co/l4AyfwAyCa
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My 11 poetry workshops here have grossed 315k views. They're for teachers, parents, children - or anyone. Just watch for free and have a go at writing something? All the best! https://t.co/mY70xEFfVl
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Official Michael Rosen Channel Every video and playlist here is approved by Michael himself. If it’s on this channel, it’s the real deal and safe for children. You may see “YTP” or “poop” remixes on...
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"The wicked act is a transfer onto others of the degradation that one carries within oneself." —Simone Weil
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Women on all sides of any violent conflict are targeted for a multitude of reasons, and strategically so. Killing, kidnapping, raping, mutilating. To disrupt community cohesion anchored to the mother, to prevent more babies being born, to ensure babies being born are the
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