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Nii Ayikwei Parkes

@niiayikwei.bsky.social
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Ga-speaking father. Happyfied self-hypnotist. Daydreamer, writer, editor, idea whisperer. Bylines: Guardian, Nat Geo, Vice, Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller | Writes for kids as K.P. Kojo t.co/V3GydO5tbs #BookSky #BlackSky #GhanaSky #Poet

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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This fungus-at-national-scale story could have been taken directly from the pages of my second novel Azúcar: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Proof that fiction can predict real national initiatives. If you want to read Azúcar, get it on @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social - uk.bookshop.org/p/books/azuc...
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Killer fungus discovered that destroys UK invasive plant
A newly discovered species raises hope that some native British habitats could be restored.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/05/2026
Despite ICJ genocide warnings, 51 nations kept arming Israel, even after pledging to halt support aje.news/hsk76r
Despite ICJ genocide warnings, 51 nations kept arming Israel, even after pledging to halt support
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This week's edition is an important one
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Niall O'Sullivan @rustyniall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
There's no way of saying this without sounding like a fuddy duddy but the highway code changed in 2022 to specify that all drivers and cyclists turning from a main road at a junction have to give way to pedestrians who are crossing or about to cross. They then decided not to tell anyone about it.
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 23/05/2026
You won't want to miss this deep dive into the porno-political memeplex that has colonized the right. Cameron Cummins-Smith gives us essentially an explainer, but one that is so necessary because this stuff is so embarrassing to think about, let alone write about.
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The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything
Everything is gender, but to understand gender you must understand sex.
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Niall O'Sullivan @rustyniall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"London has been rocked by the rise of moped riders snatching the watches from unaware people walking in the street." These kids don't need jail, they need a Vegas residency.
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
They think they are buying cocaine, but are sold date rape drugs and robbed – de-Rolexed... What happened to all the trustworthy drug dealers? 🤔 metro.co.uk/2026/05/20/g...
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Disturbing new crimewave sweeping London that leaves victims unconscious
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I'll be there all day for my sins. Come through if you can...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 11/05/2026
Videos of the DOGE staffers who gutted humanities funding using ChatGPT went viral. Now a federal judge has ruled that personnel didn’t have authority to terminate the grants. Kelsey Ables and Janay Kingsberry spoke to the plaintiffs:
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The Humanities Score a Victory Against Trump
DOGE used ChatGPT to cancel research grants. A federal judge wouldn’t have it.
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Potempkin Village Idiot @ixak.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Despite several trips to Accra, I never made it to a proper bookstore while I was in Ghana. But a few years later I found this lovely book by Ghanaian author @niiayikwei.bsky.social in the African authors section of the Ikirezi book shop in Kigali, Rwanda.
Tail of the Blue Bird. A book by Ghanaian author Nii Ayikwei Parkes.
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flipped eye publishing @flippedeye.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We are ecstatic, of course. Prickle made us sit up right away when it came. Publishers dream of moments like that, and our editors @rustyniall.bsky.social, @jacobslr.bsky.social and @niiayikwei.bsky.social LOVE to work in the energy such moments bring. Congratulations @rachelcleverly.bsky.social
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
So, it appears Tiger Woods needs to keep a driver at hand always. Or just use a driver more.
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"what is birth but death/ with complexity" – Michael S. Harper
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 07/03/2026
State abortion restrictions in the US are creating risks to pregnant people nationwide. Women are dying preventable deaths because abortion care is denied or delayed.
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US Abortion Restrictions Causing Preventable Deaths
State restrictions on abortion, since the Supreme Court ruled in 2022 that the US constitution does not confer a right to abortion, are creating risks to pregnant people nationwide. Women are dying pr...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity." Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...
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NPR @npr.org · 07/03/2026
The grandson of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups creator has launched a campaign against The Hershey Company, which owns the Reese's brand. He wants them to stop skimping on ingredients.
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The candy heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
The grandson of the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups creator has launched a campaign against The Hershey Company, which owns the Reese's brand. He wants them to stop skimping on ingredients.
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Ashoka Mukpo @shokes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I went through all the court docs and wrote about his story a few years ago www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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Alabama Is Going to Execute Rocky Myers. He Might Be Innocent.
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Ghostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Rocky Myers, a Black man from Decatur, Alabama, is still locked up for a crime he didn’t commit. His lawyer, former corporate counsel for the United Klans of America, told me if he had to do it all over again, he’d seat an all-white jury this time. Please take a moment with this story.
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"what is birth but death/ with complexity" – Michael S. Harper
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/03/2026
Jasmine Crockett’s team called The Atlantic’s Elaine Godfrey a “top-notch hater”—then armed guards escorted our reporter out of a rally. Listen to the audio here:
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‘Elaine From Atlantic … She Needs to Leave’
Representative Jasmine Crockett claimed I wasn’t kicked out of her rally. Here’s the audio.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The death of possibly more than 100 little girls in a primary school. How is that not a central news story today across all serious outlets? And thank you, FT, for being one of only a few newsrooms driving attention to what happened there. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Strike on Iranian primary school kills 148, authorities say
Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I have linguistically arrived. One of my sentences is an example for the use of "ravish" with the Merriam-Webster dictionary online... #Ga boy to the ngleshi blɔfo; #Ghana to the world 🇬🇭 (of course, I always seem to be talking about food, which is very on-brand for GaDangbe culture)
Screenshot from the online Merriam-Webster dictionary showing uses of the word 'ravish' with one of the examples taken from an article written for Condé Nast Traveler by Nii Ayikwei Parkes in 2024.
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
We must understand that the US president is playing "tick box" with the world, NOT seeking peace. If a president before him has bombed, he wants to bomb; if they've installed a new 'leader', he wants to do the same. Nothing he does is for the people of the USA or good of the world – all ego, no care
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flipped eye publishing @flippedeye.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
We've been quiet for a bit, but we just want to remind the world that we turn 25 this year – 25, TWENTY-FIVE!! As indie publishers we know how special it is to be around this long and how much it signals the support of YOU, our readers worldwide. THANK YOU. #FECrew
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027 The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives' ⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships
Fellow giving a presentation.
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 31/01/2026
They literally just sat around and watched this baby die. There can be no civilized society as long as cops exists. This is just barbaric and cruel for no reason.
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
AI theft. Read the report: societyofauthors.org/2026/01/30/b...
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
One day to Dilla month...
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Always going back to love and moving forward with hope. Happy New Year, people 🎉
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/01/2026
lol Miller's stance on immigrants from global majority countries is "we came and wrecked your house, and now you can't come to ours."
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Forever free no matter how much this exploitative-world-upending independence is sabotaged to keep racial capitalism alive!
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Plated
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
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Opinion | At Harvard and Elsewhere, the New Campus Orthodoxy Is Even More Stifling
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Reuters @reuters.com · 24/12/2025
How Israel's hilltop settlers coordinate attacks to expel Palestinians reut.rs/4jguWcD
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How Israel's hilltop settlers coordinate attacks to expel Palestinians
This year ​was one of the most violent on record for Israeli civilian attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to United Nations data.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero theconversation.com/we-analysed-...
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We analysed 73,000 articles and found the UK media is divorcing ‘climate change’ from net zero
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Why do people find it so hard to boycott entertaining, but badly written fiction to show solidarity with marginalised groups? You know who I'm talking about!!
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Metaphor for Kier Starmer's reading of social care needs and global geopolitics??
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Some news. In 2022, I began a project of expanding some of the poems from #TheGeez into essays. So far, I've only completed one, but it has brought me some small small recognition. Yes, you can call me an essayist now 😊 (Thanks @prairie-schooner.bsky.social, thanks @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social)
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, rejects Trump's effort to deploy National Guard in Illinois for now
More than two months after DOJ asked for "immediate" relief, the Supreme Court said no on Tuesday. Also: A Kavanaugh note on Kavanaugh stops.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 15/11/2025
TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social on the exquisite artistry of Benin and the opening of a new West African art museum, which was "scuttled by protesters connected to the Ọba of Benin, who stormed the museum, insulting attendees and demanding that they leave." flaminghydra.com/issue-443/#b...
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Troubled troves
Kọla Túbọsún on the entwined beauty and tragedy of Benin’s looted treasures
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 15/11/2025
ICYMI: A judge’s ruling that legal action by authors against OpenAI for copyright infringement can go ahead reveals the “the ease with which generative AI can devastate the market,” according to the Publishers Association 👇 #BookSky
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OpenAI copyright case reveals 'ease with which generative AI can devastate the market', says PA
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This is rape culture. This is why so many people don’t come forward. A young girl was being bullied at school by a boy who made AI generated nudes of her. She told the principal. She told the guidance counsellor. They didn’t stop it. Finally she hit the boy responsible, and SHE got expelled:
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A Louisiana girl hit a boy who was sharing deepfake nude photos of her. She was expelled.
“This girl was abused,” one of the family’s attorneys said, noting that she endured sexual exploitation and harassment. And the expulsion “was like pouring salt in the wound.”
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15/11/2025
READ: Jenin refugee camp was completely emptied of its residents during Israel's ethnic cleansing operation earlier this year. These are photos of life in the camp before its most recent Nakba. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/in-p...
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In photos: The ongoing Nakba of Jenin refugee camp
Jenin refugee camp was completely emptied of its residents during Israel’s ethnic cleansing operation earlier this year. These are photos of life in the camp before its most recent Nakba.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/11/2025
Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music that cuts through the noise. n.pr/47Rs40o
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There's a new generation of folk protest singers on TikTok
Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music that cuts through the noise.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back” ⁦‪Asawin Suebsaeng‬⁩ reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’ Read/share/subscribe:
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‘That Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back
Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The absolute devastation of these last lines: "If you can hear me there, if this reaches you, forgive us, we did not know who we were." -- @joriegraham.bsky.social in @lrb.co.uk
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know." Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
21st Century Privilege Riddle: people who keep saying they were/are cancelled but still have 1000x more exposure/media than 1000 people 1000x more productive and talented than they are...
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a man in a suit says oh god it 's pathetic ..
ALT: a man in a suit says oh god it 's pathetic ..
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