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I am your favourite writer, you just don't know it yet🤭.

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Writers are the most enlightened minds you will ever encounter. They are also the most dangerous. We wield articulation like a weapon, dress up our egos in beautiful sentences, and call it wisdom... nairastories.com/audiobooks-or-…


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"What wins is not love. What wins is the ability to show a bind so clearly the reader cannot look away." This is what I learned from analyzing Leila Aboulela's "The Museum" — the first Caine Prize winner. open.substack.com/pub/halirualim…

HaliruAliMusa's tweet image. "What wins is not love. What wins is the ability to show a bind so clearly the reader cannot look away."

This is what I learned from analyzing Leila Aboulela's "The Museum" — the first Caine Prize winner.
open.substack.com/pub/halirualim…

Essay #2 is live. Helon Habila's "Love Poems" — winner of the 2001 Caine Prize. A prisoner forced to write love poems for his jailer's girlfriend. Habila calls the structure "fragmented." I call it "a smooth narrative pretending to be broken." open.substack.com/pub/halirualim…

HaliruAliMusa's tweet image. Essay #2 is live.

Helon Habila's "Love Poems" — winner of the 2001 Caine Prize.

A prisoner forced to write love poems for his jailer's girlfriend. Habila calls the structure "fragmented." I call it "a smooth narrative pretending to be broken."

open.substack.com/pub/halirualim…

Anatomy of a Winning Story: The Museum by Leila Aboulela (2000 Caine Prize-winning story) open.substack.com/pub/halirualim…


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No paywalls, no subscriptions, no ads. All past issues of Lolwe are available to read online for free. Read the best stories, essays, poems by Black (African, Caribbean and Diaspora) writers here: lolwe.org/issues

Lolwe_'s tweet image. No paywalls, no subscriptions, no ads. All past issues of Lolwe are available to read online for free. Read the best stories, essays, poems by Black (African, Caribbean and Diaspora) writers here: lolwe.org/issues

He who bends down to check another man's anus, opens his more wider


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Please teach your children this important thing, to keep them safe from sexual harassment from tender age.....


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please listen to this recitation by my father who passed away recently so that he may benefit from it as sadaqah jariyah إن شاء الله 🤍 may Allah elevate him to the loftiest station and shower him with His infinite mercy 🫶🏽


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You guys, guess who made the longlist for this prize and is now on the shortlist. Meeeeeee! Woohooooo! 🥳🥳💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽🥂🥂 tell me congratulations!

joytothewords_'s tweet image. You guys, guess who made the longlist for this prize and is now on the shortlist. 

Meeeeeee! Woohooooo! 🥳🥳💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽🥂🥂 tell me congratulations!
joytothewords_'s tweet image. You guys, guess who made the longlist for this prize and is now on the shortlist. 

Meeeeeee! Woohooooo! 🥳🥳💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽🥂🥂 tell me congratulations!

📢 BPLP 2025 We are pleased to unveil the shortlist for the 2025 Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize. 🏆We congratulate all the writers whose works have reached this stage. Read the full shortlist: wrr.ng/news/bplp-2025… #BPLP2025 #AfricanLiterature #Poetry #ShortStories

authorpedia's tweet image. 📢 BPLP 2025
We are pleased to unveil the shortlist for the 2025 Brigitte Poirson Literature Prize.

🏆We congratulate all the writers whose works have reached this stage.

 Read the full shortlist: wrr.ng/news/bplp-2025…

#BPLP2025 #AfricanLiterature #Poetry #ShortStories


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90% of men are ok with not having a big wedding or no wedding party at all

unpopular opinion that will put you in this position

iamtitty05's tweet image. unpopular opinion that will put you in this position


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2025 was a milestone, an overwhelming year for me. In 356 days, — I live —200 submissions. —160 rejections —25 acceptances —15 pending —made over $1500 from writing (ps: I'm still broke asf) —Won Two Writing Contests —Shortlisted/longlisted/honourable mention for 3 prizes.

IkechukwuHenry_'s tweet image. 2025 was a milestone, an overwhelming year for me. 
In 356 days,
— I live
—200 submissions.
—160 rejections 
—25 acceptances 
—15 pending 
—made over $1500 from writing (ps: I'm still broke asf)
—Won Two Writing Contests 
—Shortlisted/longlisted/honourable mention for 3 prizes.
IkechukwuHenry_'s tweet image. 2025 was a milestone, an overwhelming year for me. 
In 356 days,
— I live
—200 submissions.
—160 rejections 
—25 acceptances 
—15 pending 
—made over $1500 from writing (ps: I'm still broke asf)
—Won Two Writing Contests 
—Shortlisted/longlisted/honourable mention for 3 prizes.

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We Shall Remain is also here. So grateful.


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A Muslim man married in January. His wife gave birth in early December. On Christmas Day (like 2 weeks later) , he married another wife. The TL reacted predictably: applause from some men, outrage from some women. But the noise is masking the real issues. 🧵 1/


Subhanallah, I do have my own perspective on this. However, I don't like the fact that we are meddling in people's marital lives. If you can't say something good, leave it be.

Imagine given birth for the first time, going through sh*t especially with twins and your husband got married in the same week. Hausa men don’t have empathy or emotional intelligence, su dai kawai ganin mata suke haka gasu nan



Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary Big 11 is all I can say, Alhamdulillah, I learnt a lot from respected persons' posts

HaliruAliMusa's tweet image. Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary  Big 11 is all I can say, Alhamdulillah, I learnt a lot from respected persons' posts

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Bàbá Ẹniọlá examined the test script. Good. The subject was integrated science. This child would not make his own mistakes. She would be a doctor or an engineer. At worst, she might be an accountant.

izangalex's tweet image. Bàbá Ẹniọlá examined the test script. Good. The subject was integrated science. This child would not make his own mistakes. She would be a doctor or an engineer. At worst, she might be an accountant.

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Delighted to share my review of Haliru Ali Musa's The Pregnant Ghost. This short story won the inaugural Alexander Nderitu World Prize for Literature earlier this year. You can read the review here: ikikearts.com/reading-haliru…

izangalex's tweet image. Delighted to share my review of Haliru Ali Musa's The Pregnant Ghost. This short story won the inaugural Alexander Nderitu World Prize for Literature earlier this year.

You can read the review here: ikikearts.com/reading-haliru…

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PLEASE RETWEET FOR PRESIDENT TINUBU TO SEE THIS!!! The abandoned Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi Lagos has sat in silence for decades — a massive, high-value public asset wasting away in the heart of Lagos. This was built in 1976 and was a masterpiece!!! Abandoned in 1991 which…

OgbeniAdugbo's tweet image. PLEASE RETWEET FOR PRESIDENT TINUBU TO SEE THIS!!!

The abandoned Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi Lagos has sat in silence for decades — a massive, high-value public asset wasting away in the heart of Lagos. 

This was built in 1976 and was a masterpiece!!! Abandoned in 1991 which…
OgbeniAdugbo's tweet image. PLEASE RETWEET FOR PRESIDENT TINUBU TO SEE THIS!!!

The abandoned Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi Lagos has sat in silence for decades — a massive, high-value public asset wasting away in the heart of Lagos. 

This was built in 1976 and was a masterpiece!!! Abandoned in 1991 which…
OgbeniAdugbo's tweet image. PLEASE RETWEET FOR PRESIDENT TINUBU TO SEE THIS!!!

The abandoned Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi Lagos has sat in silence for decades — a massive, high-value public asset wasting away in the heart of Lagos. 

This was built in 1976 and was a masterpiece!!! Abandoned in 1991 which…
OgbeniAdugbo's tweet image. PLEASE RETWEET FOR PRESIDENT TINUBU TO SEE THIS!!!

The abandoned Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi Lagos has sat in silence for decades — a massive, high-value public asset wasting away in the heart of Lagos. 

This was built in 1976 and was a masterpiece!!! Abandoned in 1991 which…

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