Romeo Oriogun
@sonofolokun.bsky.social
Just a nomadic poet stuck in the middle of an apocalypse.
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US higher ed, especially in STEM fields, would collapse without international students
UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.
November 24, 2024 at 7:14 PM
US higher ed, especially in STEM fields, would collapse without international students
Ghana, 2017. My first month in exile, never been back fully in Nigeria since then. I was so young and alive back then. The years here have taken their toll on me.
November 25, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Ghana, 2017. My first month in exile, never been back fully in Nigeria since then. I was so young and alive back then. The years here have taken their toll on me.
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Award-winning poets Romeo Oriogun & David Nash will join me on Just to Say on Wed Dec 4th, 7pm 😍 It's free! Join us to chat all things poetry & to kick your December off with inspiration from these stars 🌟Sponsored by Jacar Press.
Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the Zoom link😇
Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the Zoom link😇
November 19, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Award-winning poets Romeo Oriogun & David Nash will join me on Just to Say on Wed Dec 4th, 7pm 😍 It's free! Join us to chat all things poetry & to kick your December off with inspiration from these stars 🌟Sponsored by Jacar Press.
Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the Zoom link😇
Email jacarpress@gmail.com for the Zoom link😇
I believe that in the apocalypse there will still be tenderness, there will still be love, there will still be hope.
November 16, 2024 at 6:13 PM
I believe that in the apocalypse there will still be tenderness, there will still be love, there will still be hope.
“The books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.”
— Javier Marias
— Javier Marias
November 16, 2024 at 6:10 PM
“The books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.”
— Javier Marias
— Javier Marias
First day of surfing lessons.
November 16, 2024 at 5:56 PM
First day of surfing lessons.
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And also, just by the way - our first-ever critical edition of the first-ever African novel in English is now available from MSUP: msupress.org/978160917765.... It will be Open Access in a few years, but already very affordable thanks to some help from JHU. No publicist; joined this site instead. 🫣
Ethiopia Unbound
This book shines a new light on J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound, widely considered the first English-language novel published by an African writer....
msupress.org
November 14, 2024 at 2:25 PM
And also, just by the way - our first-ever critical edition of the first-ever African novel in English is now available from MSUP: msupress.org/978160917765.... It will be Open Access in a few years, but already very affordable thanks to some help from JHU. No publicist; joined this site instead. 🫣
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“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin
November 14, 2024 at 1:24 AM
“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin
“This is not a common romance but a romance without a finality or a real story.”
November 14, 2024 at 1:06 AM
“This is not a common romance but a romance without a finality or a real story.”