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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"It is a measure of the artist's wide-ranging influence that one of those paying tributes was Wayne Barrow, manager of the American Hip-Hop legend, The Notorious B.I.G." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Kasali Akangbe Ogun: Tributes paid to Nigeria's renowned Yoruba wood carver
Kasali Akangbe Ogun, who came from a long line of wood carvers and wanted to preserve local traditions, has been buried following his death after a brief illness.
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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 24/11/2025
Congratulations to @illepitaph.bsky.social, @geoliminal.bsky.social, Elisabeth Sheffield, Peter Grandbois, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, and @molarawood.bsky.social—this year's Pushcart nominees!
Congratulations to our Pushcart Nominees: The Temperance of Heretics by Steve Barbaro; Leeuwenhoek’s Lens by Eric Williams; Cate’s Upstate or Fashion After the Apocalypse by Elisabeth Sheffield; Crow calls from the top of a pine by Peter Grandbois; Clotheslines by Khalil AbuSharekh; Requiem for the Golden City by Molara Wood
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 08/06/2025
Here's a @bookshop.org link to Ngũgĩ's Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas (hardback), out now from @thenewpress.bsky.social: bookshop.org/a/90290/9781... And your pdf download link to this week's @thecontinent.org : www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
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Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Check out Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas - <p><b>A <em>Literary Hub</em> Most Anticipated Book<br></b><br><b>Brilliant thoughts on modern African literature and postcolonial liter...
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 08/06/2025
With my review of his latest book, published in May by @thenewpress.bsky.social :
Page One of a screenshot of a review of Ngũgĩ's book, Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, in The ContinentPage Two of a screenshot of a review of Ngugi's book in The Continent, with a dramatically lit colour photo of him at the top of the page.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 08/06/2025
Continued in this week's @thecontinent.org: "What Ngũgĩ meant: Jacqueline Nyathi asked global writers how they will remember him." Words from Zukiswa Wanner, Bhakti Shringapure @radicalbooks.bsky.social , Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Aminatta Forna, and @molarawood.bsky.social . 💙📚
A wonderful illustration of the late Mwalimu 
Ngũgĩ by Tanzanian cartoonist GADO. 

Text below: What Ngũgĩ meant
Following the luminary Kenyan writer's
death on 28 May, Jacqueline Nyathi asked
global writers how they will remember him.A screenshot from The Continent with tributes to Ngũgĩ from Zukiswa Wanner, Bhakti Shringapure, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Aminatta Forna, and Molara Wood.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 31/05/2025
@thecontinent.org remembers Ngũgĩ.
Screenshot from The Continent. Part of the text reads: 

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1988 - 2025
JACQUELINE NYATHI
(PHOTO: LEONARDO CENDAMO/ GETTY IMAGES)
In 1964, after Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o had
published Weep Not, Child, he entered
a club in Nairobi and everyone mistook
him for the author of Things Fall Apart.
He later told Wole Soyinka that
Chinua Achebe's name had "haunted his
life". Soyinka said that he, too, had been
mistaken for Achebe. All towering figures
in their own right, the three were also a
tribe: "Writers for whom literature and
politics were inextricable," as editor and
author Bhakti Shringarpure says.
Aged 87, Ngũgĩ passed away on 28
May in the United States after a long
illness. That he died in the US should be
an indictment of our postcolonial states
and their inability to live with writers
who fight the good fight.
Ngũgĩ suffered greatpersecution from
the Kenyan government for his work,
first under Jomo Kenyatta, and then
Daniel arap Moi. In 1977 he spenta year
in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison for
writing, in Gīkũyũ, Ngaahika Ndeenda
(I Will Marry When I Want), which
the Kenyatta government considered
subversive. His 1981 novel, Caitaani
Mũtharabainĩ (Devil on the Cross) was
also written there - on toilet paper. In
1982, he was forced into exile when, in
London for a book launch, Ngũgi learnt
of a plot against him back in Kenya.
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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 28/05/2025
The ancestors have welcomed Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a titan of literature, countless are the number of readers his work inspired to become writers, his legacy will speak on across the generations.
Photo of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 28/05/2025
Take a trip through the shadows of the Golden City courtesy of @molarawood.bsky.social in our latest issue! bit.ly/44XKA7B #shortstories #literarycommunity #fiction
"—Oyinbo people’s eyes have opened, no more European or American mugu, 419 rarely bangs, these days, went the refrain. Now Yahoo scammers were dab hands at money rituals. Even rituals involving murder, grave-robbing, and carnal knowledge of vulnerable women in ghostly places, their panties spirited away for occultic ends." From Requiem for the Golden City by Molara Wood.
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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Thank you for thinking of sending it to us, Molara! Really honored. It was super-exciting to open up the story and begin making my way through the Golden City. What a world.
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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
A favorite genre of mine is fiction that does the work of documentary journalism, tipping the balance away from interiority to the world. Molara Wood gets that balance in this portrait of an impossible city, rendered in densely multifarious, textured language that reads like a Nigerian Neuromancer.
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
My short story, "Requiem for the Golden City", in Issue 32 of @yourimpossiblevoice.com. Read story here: yourimpossiblevoice.com/requiem-for-... Your Impossible Voice publishes "brash and velvety" new work from around the globe. Proud to be certified brash and velvety.
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Requiem for the Golden City | Issue 32
By Molara Wood — "In the end, it was the mining belt that spat him out. But he hadn’t the tiniest intimation of this when he set out that evening, thinking only that he hated short-time."
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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Lucky to guest-edit prose for this issue oF YIV. Thanks to everyone who sent in work and to those whose work I chose. There's prizewinners and first-time fictioneers and more than a little of the ondoorgrondelijk, from Africa to Oakland. Thank you to Keith, Karen, and Stephen for having me.
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Your Impossible Voice @yourimpossiblevoice.com · 22/05/2025
It's here. Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, @molarawood.bsky.social, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, @ianmacclayn.bsky.social, Karen An-hwei Lee, @adamsorardor.bsky.social, @ericracher.bsky.social, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan...
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Your Impossible Voice #32 | Spring 2025
Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, Molara Wood, Khalil AbuSharekh, Ian MacClayn, Karen An-hwei Lee, Austin Adams, Eric T. Racher, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan, Steve Barba...
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"To many scientists, Mars One was humanity’s next great adventure." Words: Serena Meloche Art: Yemisi Aribisala www.guernicamag.com/all-that-blue/
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All That Blue
“When I look at space, more often than not, I am interested in what it tells us about being human.”
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Fed up of the racism & misogyny that couldn’t imagine a Black woman as an attorney, Rebecca Hall began a PhD in history. She unearthed women-led slave revolts and wrote Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. www.feministgiant.com/p/books-wake...
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Books: Wake - The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, Rebecca Hall, Illustrated by Hugo Martinez
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Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Absolutely awful news. Koyo was a powerhouse andl appointed to curate the next Venice Biennale, at the top of her game.
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Shocking exit for Koyo Kouoh, curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale, the first African woman to achieve the distinction. Ikú dóró. news.artnet.com/art-world/ko...
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Koyo Kouoh, 2026 Venice Biennale Curator, Dies Suddenly | Artnet News
Koyo Kouoh, executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA and curator of the next Venice Biennale, died suddenly overnight.
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"Historically, my body was considered stronger, like a mule’s. Bodies like mine were once experimented on without the use of anesthesia, our skin too thick to feel the pain." www.guernicamag.com/strong-as-a-...
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Strong as a Mule, Thick as a Rope
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body.” –Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body.
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Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I am ecstatic to announce the OFFICIAL crowdfunding launch of our speculative BIPOC anthology, Amorphaville—a collection of poetry & flash fiction from 20+ BIPOC writers examining the fluidity of time. Campaign is linked in my bio. We hope you’ll join us in supporting BIPOC art! 🚀 #WritingCommunity
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Celebrating International Mother Language Day at Goethe Institut Lagos Yoruba poetry from @AremoGemini.
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 21/02/2025
Ohhh mmmm geee this is your weekend MUST READ
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"I first came across him in a Pakistan newspaper column and the name struck me—as the kids have already abandoned saying—right in the feels. “Iggy Fernandes.” How could it not, with such a rockstarry formulation?" www.guernicamag.com/iggy/
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Iggy
I was looking for a trace, a whiff, a rumor—anything that would bring alive the greatest guitarist you’d never heard about.
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Nobody does the longstanding standard bookshop in Nigeria like the folks in Ibadan. Such an old and familiar joy browsing through The Booksellers outlet on the aptly named Magazine Road in Jericho, Ibadan, earlier today. Now 30 years in the business, they're not to be beat.
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"The war, that, when started on 11 October 1899 had been expected by the British public to end by Christmas of the same year, but ended with thousands of deaths for the British, the Boer and the Africans who were collateral damage." #Fiction #ZukiswaWanner www.guernicamag.com/broken-endin...
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Broken Endings, Uncertain Geneses
Coupled with her Tannie Sallie being ill, her mama and Elsie’s death and everything that had happened in this camp, her little mind was so sure that more cruelty would kill her.
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"These pieces come to us from South Africa, Lebanon, Sudan, Italy, Palestine, and Mexico; they are at times mournful, at times contemplative, and at times optimistic." www.guernicamag.com/the-january-...
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The January Issue
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
"The climate issues Lagos faces are due to bad planning, mismanagement, lack of efficient drainage systems and human refusal to respect the ocean." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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A future in jeopardy for Nigerian coastal communities facing rising seas
In Akodo-Ise in Lagos, homes, livelihoods and even graves have been lost to ocean encroachment due to climate change.
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"The activist in this story was also hounded by the manipulative legal powers of the civilian government to stifle the human rights of the voices of the people. There is no doubt that this story stretches its meanings beyond the year of publishing." www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/a-re...
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A Review of Molara Wood’s Indigo
Indigo is the first collection of short stories offered by Molara Wood. It is a departure from her terrain of journalism and editorial practice in the culture space. This book of stories represents a ...
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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Today’s #readingrecommendation is #LightinGaza edited by Jehad Abusalim et al. It brings together a magnificent polyphony of Gazan voices & is an essential read and reference. PS I am teaching it today but I did warn this was a personal list #readpalestineweek
Book cover with a painting of brightly coloured buildings under a bright blue sky
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I have a story in the forthcoming anthology, 'Devotion in the Open Air', published by @inkedingraypress.bsky.social. ✍🏾 Pre-order link: inkedingray.com/books/devoti...
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I was recently on BBC Radio 4, discussing - amongst other things - the Pauletta/Denzel Washington-family produced film, The Piano Lesson, which I loved! I will add on to this with reasons why when I have a bit of time... Click and listen. Have a fab weekend!! 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Review: The Piano Lesson, Florence 1504, Jonathan Coe's The Proof of My Innocence
We review The Piano Lesson, the latest film from Denzel Washington and his family.
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out! You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/... The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The execution of Patrice Lumumba of Congo on 17 January 1961(?) is often described as the most significant assassination of the 20th century. Through his own words, I reflect on his life and death and the global participation in his horrific execution. folukeafrica.com/patrice-lumu...
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Patrice Lumumba: May Africa breathe the air of freedom
Prime Minister of Congo June-Sept 1960 (Assasinated)
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Visit my linktree to: order my book, write a Goodreads review, check out my website, listen to my podcast, visit my YouTube channel, and much more... linktr.ee/folukeifejola
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folukeifejola | Twitter, Instagram, TikTok | Linktree
African woman, lawyer, teacher, poet. Singer of songs, writer of words
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
My most recent published piece, a book review. olongoafrica.com/the-palour-w...
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The Parlour Wife - A Review - Olongo Africa
Download as PDFFoluso Agbaje’s remarkable debut, The Parlour Wife, is likely the first novel many will read that focuses on the impact of the Second World War on an African population, with African ch...
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Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
New here. Nice blue sky. Some of my writings are in profile link. My book's on Kindle. 👇 www.amazon.co.uk/Indigo-Molar... .
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Indigo eBook : Wood, Molara: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Indigo eBook : Wood, Molara: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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