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My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a Time Magazine “Must-Read Book of the 2025”, 🥰.

I’m pleased that they at least said the genre is “hard to pin down” (that’s an understatement because the novel contains multitudes).

Full list here: time.com/collections/...
'Death of the Author' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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“As the Swahili saying goes: ‘Mdharau maradhi, kifo humuumbua’ – He who ignores an illness is humbled by death.

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“Island of Peace” - Mirage and shattered illusion
Kisiwa cha Amani. Island of peace It was a beautiful story, a picture, a mirage — Tanzania, an “Island of Peace” floating in a turbulent region. We repeated the phrase until it became gospel, even as ...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Generations that have experienced double trauma as youth/children in #Tanzania 🇹🇿:

#GenX:

War in 1978-1979&Economic Crisis in 1982-1983+

#GenZ:

Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020+& #M029 Crackdown in 2025.

#truthandreconciliation #uhuru #freedom #haki #justice #healing #life #peace
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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China dominates the narrative on Africa’s urban development — but what about Turkey? In Maputo, Turkish construction firms are quietly reshaping the city, largely unnoticed by researchers. Not all of these companies are here for fun—many of them are run by exiles linked to the Gülen movement.
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
@nnedi.bsky.social have you spotted one here?
October 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Also, because this conference is part of the Africana Studies Department and the audience was full of African professors, I could discuss what it means to be the child of African immigrants & how it defines my work & my understanding of masquerades without having to spend much time on context.
October 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Also, because this conference is part of the Africana Studies Department and the audience was full of African professors, I could discuss what it means to be the child of African immigrants & how it defines my work & my understanding of masquerades without having to spend much time on context.
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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It’s always a joy to be in an academic space. I can discuss africanfuturism as opposed to defend it.

In academic spaces, I can finally move past the basic (you get a lot more time to discuss other things when you don’t spend it all rehashing definitions).
October 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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"This little light of mine" Danae Andrea Howe with POCC Choir www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4wD... #music #freedom
This Little Light of Mine
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October 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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"This little light of mine" Fannie Lou Hamer www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhiV... #music #freedom
This Little Light of Mine
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October 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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"We shall not be moved" Mavis Staples www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQnl... #music #freedom
We Shall Not Be Moved
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October 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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"I shall not be moved" Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe6G... #music #freedom
The Million Dollar Quartet - I Shall Not Be Moved
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October 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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"I refuse to accept a world where people are punished for seeking safety or silenced for speaking the truth. I refuse a system that values profit over people and power over love." - Natasha Cloud
October 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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📞AAC 📍Seeing Like and Beyond James C. Scott (1936-2024)📍
📅Deadline : 28.11.25
👥Thomas Caubet, Pablo Corroyer, Donatien Costa, Coralie Douat, Léo Grillet, Guillaume Fauvel, Soline Schweisguth @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr , Margot Verdier
▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?10...
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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CALL FOR PAPERS
A workshop at LSE next April on 'Uses and Abuses of the Murdock Atlas in Social Science Research'. We're looking for cross-disciplinary engagement to think critically about what this widely used source means, what it can & can't tell us. Submit by Nov 14
www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...
Uses and abuses of the Murdock Atlas in social science research
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October 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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"Amazing grace" Rebecca Ferguson www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCVc... #music #gospel #spiritual
▶ Rebecca Ferguson - Amazing Grace - X Factor
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October 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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September 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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FYI, the final book in the SHE WHO KNOWS trilogy, "THE DAUGHTER WHO REMAINS" is now on Netgalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
The Daughter Who Remains
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September 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The Little Black Book Series Belongs in Every Academic Library!

These volumes expand the canon, sharpen methodological rigor, and equip faculty and students with indispensable tools for contemporary scholarship.

Order Volume 1 and Volume 2 now on UWPBooks.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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