✨ Our CEO @kenechiuzor.bsky.social is representing Iskanchi Press at the New York Black & African Literature Festival! Intentional conversations with literary greats like Kwame Dawes are shaping the future of African storytelling in real time. #NYBALF #AfricanLiterature #KwameDawes

“In Charles Ferdinand Ramuz’s novels, mountains menace.” —Nathaniel Rich

Ideas ‘of pure genius’ – how astronomers have measured the Universe across history – aeon.co/videos/ideas... via @aeonmag

Why my campaign to protest kidnapping in Nigeria failed – aeon.co/essays/why-m... via @aeonmag

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⏳ Time is running out! ⏳ The Iskanchi Book Prize closes April 21, 2025! Got a bold, boundary-pushing African story? Fiction, nonfiction, poetry—we want it! Don’t miss your chance to get published. Submit now: www.iskanchi.com/iskanchi-boo... #IskanchiBookPrize #CallForSubmissions

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Swagger for Survival www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yay! My #translation of this award-winning book by Aminta Dupuis is now available for pre-order from @iskanchipress.bsky.social It is a declaration of love for #Africa, celebrating the diverse human and unique spiritual treasures of this often misrepresented continent. tinyurl.com/2x92un8x

What if your consciousness never died—even after your body turned to dust? Barzakh: The Land In Between is a mind-bending fusion of science fiction, mysticism, and Mauritanian culture. #SciFi #TimeTravel #DystopianLit #Afrofuturism #iskanchi #Mauritania #MythAndScience #BookLovers #SciFiReads

"Children of Blood and Bone" meets "The Gods Are Not to Blame." ✨ The Civilization is a YA fantasy novel with an original blend of African-inspired mysticism and adventure. An absolutely riveting read. 📖 Get your copy now at www.iskanchi.com/product/the-... #FantasyReads #Mythology #ComingOfAge

‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy www.openculture.com/2024/11/bert...

Words To Live By Number 141

Really just here to read and share links to #greatreads, but it looks like the doom and gloom also found us here

StoryTime short story legends #2 "Drift Flux' Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social AfroSFv3 www.amazon.com/dp/9198291335 "In space, no one can hear your ship explode. But they can watch. Orshio Akume, priest-pilot of the Igodo, sat silently in the pilot module of the control deck..." #AfricanSFF

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

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What if we get off everything and just start reading?

"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because the axe convinced them that because its handle was made of wood it was one of them."

Lots of doom and gloom posts here too...

Hello Bluesky. I'm a writer, editor, professor, and publisher of African writing. Here to read and post links to #GreatReads on every subject but partial to lit fiction, nonfiction, philosophy, history, nature...all things thought-provoking. Please flood the TL with #Greatreads

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