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Molara Wood
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Writer, journalist, editor, culture activist. Author of 'Indigo'.
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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 :

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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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June 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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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 Continent Page 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.
June 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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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.
June 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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@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.
May 31, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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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.
May 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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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.
May 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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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.
May 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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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.
May 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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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.
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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May 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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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.
May 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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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...
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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May 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"To many scientists, Mars One was humanity’s next great adventure."

Words: Serena Meloche
Art: Yemisi Aribisala
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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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May 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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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...
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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May 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Absolutely awful news. Koyo was a powerhouse andl appointed to curate the next Venice Biennale, at the top of her game.
May 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Shocking exit for Koyo Kouoh, curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale, the first African woman to achieve the distinction. Ikú dóró.

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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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May 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"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."

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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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April 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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! 🚀
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March 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Celebrating International Mother Language Day at Goethe Institut Lagos

Yoruba poetry from @AremoGemini.
February 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Ohhh mmmm geee this is your weekend MUST READ
molarawood.bsky.social Molara Wood @molarawood.bsky.social · Feb 19
"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?"

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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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February 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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"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/
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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February 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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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.
February 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"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
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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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January 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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"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."

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The January Issue
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January 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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"The climate issues Lagos faces are due to bad planning, mismanagement, lack of efficient drainage systems and human refusal to respect the ocean."

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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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December 7, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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"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...
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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December 4, 2024 at 12:43 AM