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Just returned from a festival in #Estonia where I was invited to talk about a translation of Tail of the Blue Bird & today I realised that yesterday was the 15th (yes, FIFTEENTH!) anniversary of the paperback release of my little début novel that keeps giving. What a journey!

Fiction, because some daydreams are too cool not to be shared.

A-Live at 27! akotowaa.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/a-l…

We’re thrilled to have curated a series of literary panels for this year’s SchomburgCenter Literary Festival, happening June 14 in #Harlem! As part of the Schomburg’s centennial, the fest features author talks, music & a fun block party! See our panels brittlepaper.com/2025/06/brittl…

Shout-out to Brittle Paper, always, always. 💜

We should be careful not to invalidate people's bad experiences on the basis that something worse exists.

Clearly, the people trying to manipulate me think I’m stupid.

I would like to reserve the expenditure of energy for reasoning only with people who can be reasoned with. The rest? Reciprocated manipulation, prayer, deliberate distance, or a combination. People are weird out here.

so excited to share that i have a short story in this anthology 🎉🎉🎉

Let me make noise small. If not for anything, this playlist cover is an indicator that it can simply be ‘folk’ or ‘Indie’ or ‘alternative’ music by some African dude or babe. Thank you Spotify 💚🏝️💚 open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9d…

I am not sure how many would understand what this means, but for the longest time our music as continental Africans had to be categorized as ‘Afro’ this and that. Not blaming any one cos I am also guilty, mostly due to very few identifiable benchmarks for the kind of music I make

Fight for the things that are important to you, my loves.

The path, it is narrow.

I need to write a poem for all the baby geniuses who were supposed to take over the world (or become neurosurgeons) who just grew up to be very very tired with hints of mental illness, although no less genius.

The Slow, Meandering Beauty of We Live in Time akotowaa.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/the… via Akotowaa’s novella is out! 🕸