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Embassy of Sweden in Abuja @swedeninnigeria.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Books 📚(of course!), food 🍲, and big ideas💡- H.E. @annawesterholm.bsky.social had a great conversation with @lolashoneyin.bsky.social of #OuidaBooks. Looking forward to future collaboration. May we co-create new stories… and share more food and ideas along the way. 😊 #SwedenInNigeria

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Farida @faridabookworm.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🌟 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH: LOLA SHONEYIN 🌟 We’re celebrating the brilliant Lola Shoneyin all July! 📚 We’re kicking off with her Northern Lights Series — delightful picture books that spotlight Northern Nigerian life, culture & values. Stay tuned for more gems! ✨ #LolaShoneyin

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

What a marvellous few days it has been. From Uppsala to Bologna to Bordeaux, talking about writing, books, illustrations and festival curation. Missing Lagos like crazy.

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Following the completion of an Illustrations course delivered by tutors at Mimaster, Bookstorm is excited to announce that 2 brilliant 🇳🇬 illustrators Kayode Onimole @kroplex & Chiamaka Chukwu have been invited to participate in the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

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David H Headley @davidhheadley.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I had a wonderful chat with @nnedi.bsky.social, who is a complete joy. Look out for a new episode of @goldsborobooks.bsky.social podcast, Confessions of a Book Collector, this weekend.

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Honoured to meet and host the grande dame of Brazilian literature Conceição Evaristo at Ouida, Lagos yesterday evening. A big thanks to everyone who came to celebrate Brazilian cinema, literature, food and music with us. Yes, we made akaraje.

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I love Alan Bennett’s work ♥️

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Busy day today with a couple of interviews at the bookstore. Then Toriola turned up! It would have been creepy to reveal how often I have thought of him, his siblings and the smell of their kitchen, forty-four years ago. ♥️

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I love discovering old photos of my parents. This one is from 1975.

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Tell me about a writer whose writing journey has inspired you and win an Ake Festival ticket. I’m giving away 10 tickets. ♥️

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Two birds made their nests in my home office window sill. Now I have two eggs in each nest but I rarely see the birds. Not sure what to do…

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

So excited to share this with the world…finally! #AkeFest24

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Visited the American International School to read to the pupils and talk about writing.

Lola Shoneyin reading her books to students.

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

I really want to use this platform more.

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Celia Murias @celiamurias.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

🖤 Maravillosa esta pieza poética, "A Fragile State," declamada por la escritora Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social sobre la fragilidad de las libertades democráticas, acompañada de danza, visuales y música de Made Kuti (nieto de Fela). #Africa #Freedoms #Democracy youtu.be/qfjvorIJhUA?...

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A Fragile State by Lola Shoneyin | Democracy 2024

Democratic freedoms can vanish in a gunshot, warns the Nigerian writer in a powerful film featuring poetry, dance, and an original score from Made Kuti, the ...

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Rebecca Rubenstein @rrrubenstein.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

For a lot of us, losing Twitter isn’t really about losing ties to the company itself. It’s losing 10+ years of real, asynchronous communities, professional development, the ability to get gigs and clients, the ability to promo/share your art on an extremely broad scale. The loss of that has impact.

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 28/06/2023

This two-day public holiday already feels like a weekend so I am going to treat it accordingly.

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Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social · 26/06/2023

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was a trip!

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