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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Booker Prize shortlist: two former winners in running for £50,000 prize. Douglas Stuart, who won with Shuggie Bain in 2020, is back with John of John, and Marlon James, who won in 2015 with A Brief History of Seven Killings, returns with The Disappearers www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Booker Prize shortlist: two former winners in running for £50,000 prize

Scottish author Douglas Stuart, who won with Shuggie Bain in 2020, is back with John of John, and Jamaican writer Marlon James, who won in 2015 with A Brief History of Seven Killings, returns with The...

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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches is out today. We made this book in the plural, across geographies, languages, traditions and forms of Black feminist thought. I hope the readers this book was made for find it, because it belongs to them. #BlackFeministTheories #BlackFeminism

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The personal only seems apolitical when it is politically privileged.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026

I'm highlighting this case because we are seeing an unprecedented attack on Black life-which includes literary culture-on both sides of the pond. One solution is to entrust your work to Black people like @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app capable of understanding and promoting it! 4/4

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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app · 21/04/2026

"The money that moves through publishing is real. The work at every stage...is real.The risk at every stage is real. What is not real is the idea that somewhere in this chain, a publisher is sitting on a reserve that could simply be redistributed to improve the position of everyone else." Read more.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Here, I argue that the move to "decolonise African Studies" struggles to address not just the paucity of knowledge of Africa in every single context but also its own extractive, voyeuristic, and colonial nature. folukeafrica.com/africa-missi...

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Africa is Missing from our Curricula and Even African Studies Has Failed To Locate Her

Why the future of African studies cannot be more important than the future of African people

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 08/12/2025

If many of us are quiet about politics online nowadays, it isn't that we don't care and we're not mobilized offline. We talked about this for years. We warned them. So many who are upset now did not listen! They thought they knew better than we did. So much of this suffering was preventable.

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

"...unless we are willing to face the fact that somewhere in our imaginations we are evil, vicious people, it is not going to work." ~ Nikki Giovanni 🌸🌸🌸 /2

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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app · 29/11/2025

I’m editing a collection 'Echoes of the Earth: Black Voices Reclaiming Ecology and Justice.' I’m looking for contribution from Black thinkers, scientists, writers and activists in climate and ecology from across the Black world. Please share with your network. cassavarepublic.biz/echoes-of-th...

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Echoes of the Earth Anthology Submissions

We welcome Black writers to submit essays on climate justice and ecology for the Echoes of the Earth anthology. Make your submissions today!

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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app · 23/11/2025

Hey Nanjala, we are relaunching Ankara Press in 2026. Now's the time.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Europe's Gaza Exception: When Human Rights Don't Apply - wtih Ireti Bakare-Yusuf on #Borderlines Nigeria Info FM www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7aI...

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#Borderlines: Europe's Gaza Exception: When Human Rights Don't Apply with Yanis Varoufakis

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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app · 23/11/2025

Hey Robtel! I finally made an account here. Good to see you.

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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf @bibibakareyusuf.blacksky.app · 23/11/2025

Thanks for sharing my words on such an important topic.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025

"In a country of over 500 indigenous languages, where at least 29 are already extinct & more are endangered, this policy...is an act of erasure, an epistemic violence, a clarion call for recolonisation. Each lost language takes with it a universe of knowledge, aesthetics and ethics." Pure 🔥🔥

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025

This is a wonderful critique of a recent decree to silence indigenous languages in educational settings in Nigeria, or as the author so aptly puts it, "On the Silencing of our Tongues." I wish the Lagos Review was here to add to the BLK Sky conversation.

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An Open Letter to the Honourable Minister of Education, Federal Republic of Nigeria on the Silencing of Our Tongues - The Lagos Review

To argue then, a mere three years into an experiment of teaching our children in their mother tongues is the reason for their poor...

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