Me every time I (accidentally) see the news:

A day at the southwestern corner of the continent. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🥳🎉🛫🛬🌍

"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value." ~Arthur Miller.

This day in 2006, Guy Goma arrived at BBC London for a job interview and walked into history.

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 454 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Choose 30 books that you’ve read that have been adapted for film and/or television. #Booksky #BookChallenge 2/30 📚💙 📚🖋

Morning coffee in the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝☕️🗝🚪🪾🌍

Perhaps every single fair is no more than a dissociated fragment of one single, great, original fair which was inexplicably scattered long ago in a diaspora of the amazing. […] Here, the grotesque is the order of the day. Angela Carter, 7 May 1940 - 16 February 1992 #BookSky 📚💙 📚🖋

Choose 30 books that you’ve read that have been adapted for film and/or television. #Booksky #BookChallenge 1/30 📚💙 📚🖋

#NorthJozi autumn. 🚶🏾‍♂️🧥🧣🧤🍁🪾🍂🌸🌍

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 453 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 452 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 451 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

An airport? Ok. It's been more than a tad Ozymandias in the Empire of Lite for a while now, and one does keep thinking of those Ceaușescus (who also seemed surprised when the tide turned against them and the unlubricated phallic object of consequence popped their bubble of hubris so nastily).

Ramifications, complexities, and resonance come with the detail of imagining. ▫️Ursula K. Le Guin, 1994 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🪾🍂🌍🌖

🚨 Toxic pesticides banned in other countries are still being sold freely across Africa and traces are turning up in our food. Sign this petition to demand the African Union ban them now: 👉 act.gp/427FrqN

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 450 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 449 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 448 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 447 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 446 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

"Oh, Dicky! What a sad, silly old man you seem determined to prove yourself to be . . ."

Autumn abundance in #NorthJozi: daytime high of 12 ⁰C. 🌳🪾🍂🍁🫅🏾🧥🧣🧤🌍🌤

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

As the rain clears from the northwest, the cold sets in; 6 ⁰C but feels like 4 ⁰C. 🫅🏾☕️🧥🧣🧤🪾🍂🍁🌍🌤

Mid-autumn blooms in #NorthJozi with unseasonal (motregen reminiscent of one's time on Domplein). 🪾🍂🌸🌼🌹🌳🌍🌧

Cold, rainy morning in #NorthJozi, which begins with an alert from the health minister. 🫅🏾📚🤓☕️🗝🚪🪾🍂🌍🌧

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 445 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 444 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 443 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

A vaguely (not so) random selection of books beloved, enjoyed, or absolutely bowled over by across the decades and in the various incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 442 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 441 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 440 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 439 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 438 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

A vaguely (not so) random selection of books beloved, enjoyed, or absolutely bowled over by across the decades and in the various incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 437 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 436 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 435 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 434 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

If you plan to have a democracy without protest, it's not a democracy you are planning. 😒

Resistance is futile: Sunday inductees into the #LateImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🪾🌍☀️

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 433 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 432 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 431 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 430 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 429 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 428 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 427 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 427 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 426 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters