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.

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 [email protected] 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.

“The books we don't read are full of warnings; we will either never read them or they will arrive too late.” — Javier Marias

First day of surfing lessons.

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. 🫣

“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.”