Ten years before Nigeria’s civil war, an expat academic waved the flag for African writing by launching the Black Orpheus journal. From 1957 to 1967, Ulli Beier united a clamour of voices in different tongues, bound beneath strikingly graphic covers. www.worldofinteriors.com/story/black-...

"A roundtable on translation, community, and the work that connects us, with the editors of the Best Literary Translations 2025." bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Ten years before Nigeria’s civil war, an expat academic waved the flag for African writing by launching the Black Orpheus journal. From 1957 to 1967, Ulli Beier united a clamour of voices in different tongues, bound beneath strikingly graphic covers. www.worldofinteriors.com/story/black-...

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social on the exquisite artistry of Benin and the opening of a new West African art museum, which was "scuttled by protesters connected to the Ọba of Benin, who stormed the museum, insulting attendees and demanding that they leave." flaminghydra.com/issue-443/#b...

History reaches into the present day as the treasures of Benin fall into limbo, with warring museums, Nigerian royals, and state actors all pressing their own claims. Riveting tale beautifully told from @kolatubosun.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-443/

Religion, money, regional divisions, and volatile politics have produced a combustible situation in Nigeria—one that could turn into a roaring fire if the U.S. chooses to intervene, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún writes.

Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez

Zohran has already gotten 250k more votes than Eric Adams did 4 years ago when he was hailed as the future of the Democratic Party.

"A roundtable on translation, community, and the work that connects us, with the editors of the Best Literary Translations 2025." bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

A U.S. military intervention would be a disaster in an already divided country. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/t...

Crossing Borders: Spotlight on Literary Translation (talk at Boston's Center in Forced Displacement. April 2025) www.ktravula.com/2025/11/cros...

African Literature in Translation after Ngugi -- a conversation at the New York Black and African Literature Festival. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCF0...

Hear ye, @flaminghydra.com subscribers! Just a few hours left in HYDRANYM game No. 22 on the theme: INVITATION flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...

ALSO TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social in conversation with Afrobeat pioneer Sandra Izsadore. “Remember I was the one who told him to sing about change through music.” flaminghydra.com/godmothering...

Howard French and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún | The Second Emancipation | NYBALF 2025 Keynotes & Conversations. “French joins writer, linguist, and cultural historian Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún for a compelling conversation on the historical and contemporary contexts of pan-diasporic solidarity…” m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarM...

#nowreading Best Literary Translations 2025 published by Deep Vellum Publishing in Dallas, TX So far, my favorite story is “Of Wood and Hallucinatiton" by Mansoura Ez-Eldin, first published by The Markaz Review @markaz-review.bsky.social

This was quite fun to do.

I did a conversation about my book, The Second Emancipation, with Kola Tubosun, at Africa House, in Harlem. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarM...

Author and activist Zukiswa Wanner talks with @kolatubosun.bsky.social about being captured with the Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza and @emilyflake.bsky.social observes 'Charlie Kirk Day' today at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-422/

Zukiswa Wanner: “What most people don’t know is 33,000 people applied to be in that flotilla. That’s how outraged the people of the world are.”

Fine essay on hysterical language fetishes: "I Say Owambe and You Say Owa N’be" by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, from Flaming Hydra flaminghydra.com/issue-411/#i...

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social in conversation with newly released flotilla captive Zukiswa Wanner. “The sooner we realize that what happens there affects the rest of us, the better.” flaminghydra.com/a-flotilla-c...

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social on the surprisingly harsh politics word choice. “After a while I saw the tone of the conversation growing increasingly militant” flaminghydra.com/i-say-owambe...

💙📚👀 #Edusky

Made the Best Literary Translations 2026 longlist! My first ever longlist! 💙

This is super good!!!!!

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Just got a voice message from my editor in Nigeria that my two children's books are scheduled for the last quarter of this year. Very exciting: my first translations into Yoruba! Translated by none other than @kolatubosun.bsky.social 😍 #xl8 #kidlit #worldkidlit

Transnational solidarities across disciplines. All kinds of cool people. This exciting event will debut in New York in just a few days

The powerful lineup at this conference is exhilarating to read. So much intelligence, creativity and excellence rising up through our terrible moment. Makes me roll up my sleeves to get to work

For @flaminghydra.com I talked to @jessesword.com, a lexicographer and, full disclosure, my friend, about the perfect word "clankers" and the extremely imperfect story that's being told about where it came from: flaminghydra.com/clank-clank/

TODAY: @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social visits the Getty Villa, “which felt a bit like wandering through your rich friend’s mansion, in which there is always another room around the corner, except here every room contains surprise antiquities.” flaminghydra.com/the-getty-vi...

ALSO TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social in conversation with Efe Paul Azino, the founder of the brand new New York Black and African Literature Festival. " We want a mix of the established and the emerging, the canonical and the disruptive." flaminghydra.com/a-new-black-...

. @kolatubosun.bsky.social presents a gorgeously illustrated account of his long and painstaking creation of a public archive of BLACK ORPHEUS, a legendary mid-century Nigerian journal of the arts that “helped bridge a crucial gap between Francophone, Anglophone, and Afro-American literatures.”

ALSO TODAY: Three new poems from @kolatubosun.bsky.social. flaminghydra.com/three-summer...

Tell everyone you know to subscribe to @flaminghydra.com ! It is $36/year for top shelf criticism, interviews, comics, essays, and more, from the 60+ talented members of our cooperative. I love it so MUCH flaminghydra.com

The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate. mamdanitimes.com

A collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill. Flaming Hydra flaminghydra.com #flaminghydra

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social considers the mysteries and contradictions of the Minnesota character flaminghydra.com/r/e484371c?m...

Ngugi and the Geology of Memory - Olongo Africa olongoafrica.com/ngugi-and-th...

Interesting find while I was doing a little streamsearch.

The Black American journalists who went to Nigeria in the eighties! 🦋 www.cjr.org/the_feature/...

Tsitsi Ella Jaji has shared the most beautiful way I've ever heard translation described. Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún encouraged all of us to push publishers to sell translation rights INTO African/other local languages, as a surprisingly simple way to support literary production and exchange. Today is great. 💜

Got my copy of BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2025, guest edited by Cristina Rivera Garza (& series editors Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten, & Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún), with my #translation of Paloma Chen's poem "Obscenity," originally published in World Literature Today (who nominated it for the anthology).

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The Archaeology of Writing: A Conversation with the Mauritanian Writer Ahmed Vall Dine - Olongo Africa olongoafrica.com/the-archeolo...

What a great discussion. To stay in the know, follow @bethlehemattfield.bsky.social, @kolatubosun.bsky.social, and @naravive.bsky.social. #WriteTheWorld #translation #xl8 #Africa #AfricanLiterature