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tri1ogy: Lessons For The Lover X Usher

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:14:03 +0100

tri1ogy:

Lessons For The Lover X Usher

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:53:00 +0100

dynamicafrica: Nigerian writer and Nobel Literature Laureate...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:58:48 +0100

dynamicafrica:

Nigerian writer and Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka has been announced as the winner of this year’s 78th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.

“The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf winners are exemplars who broaden our vision of race and diversity,” said Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who chairs the jury. “This year, there is exceptional writing about the war in Iraq, slavery on a Kentucky pig farm, the Filipino experience in the U.S., and the complexity of families in which a child is radically different from parents.”

Gates directs the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, where he is also the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor. He praised the singular achievement of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian whose writing won a Nobel prize in 1986, three years after he won an Anisfield-Wolf award for his memoir, Ake: The Years of Childhood.

Cleveland Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Ronald B. Richard said this year’s winners reflect founder Edith Anisfield Wolf’s belief in the unifying power of the written word.

“The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards rose from the philanthropic vision of one woman who realized that literature could advance the ongoing dialogue about race, culture, ethnicity, and our shared humanity,” Richard said.

The Anisfield-Wolf winners will be honored in Cleveland Sept. 12 at a ceremony at the Ohio Theatre hosted by the Cleveland Foundation and emceed by Jury Chair Gates. Stay tuned this week as we profile each of our 2013 winners.

poc-creators: Helen Oyememi wrote her first book while studying...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:57:28 +0100

poc-creators:

Helen Oyememi wrote her first book while studying for her “A” levels in Britain. She is of Nigerian descent, and has earned critical raves for her work which includes four novels and two plays. She writes mostly speculative fiction.

Descriptions from Amazon.com

The Icarus Girl

White is for Witching

“Miranda is at home—homesick, home sick …”

As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. The death of her mother when Miranda is sixteen exacerbates her condition; nothing, however, satisfies a strange hunger passed down through the women in her family. And then there’s the family house in Dover, England, converted to a bed-and-breakfast by Miranda’s father. Dover has long been known for its hostility toward outsiders. But the Silver House manifests a more conscious malice toward strangers, dispatching those visitors it despises. Enraged by the constant stream of foreign staff and guests, the house finally unleashes its most destructive power.

With distinct originality and grace, and an extraordinary gift for making the fantastic believable, Helen Oyeyemi spins the politics of family and nation into a riveting and unforgettable mystery.

The Opposite House

Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emissary who lives in a mysterious somewherehouse with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. She is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them. Interweaving these two tales. Helen Oyeyemi, acclaimed author of The Icarus Girl, spins a dazzling tale about faith, identity, and self-discovery.

Mr. Fox

Fairytale romances end with a wedding. The fairytales that don’t get more complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can’t stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It’s not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently. Meanwhile, Daphne becomes convinced that her husband is having an affair, and finds her way into Mary and Mr. Fox’s game. And so Mr. Fox is offered a choice: Will it be a life with the girl of his dreams, or a life with an all-too-real woman who delights him more than he cares to admit?

Here also is a fantastic tho spoiler filled review

Junipers Whitening and Victimese

Juniper’s Whitening

“Tell me this - is it true that if you make someone die, and they come out the other side, it doesn’t matter? I’m sure something clung to Lazarus. Something must’ve shone through him.”

In Aleph, Beth and Juniper’s nightmare house, kindness is entrapment, and resurrection is a weapon. Aleph love/hates Beth, Beth love/hates Aleph, and all Juniper knows is that Beth can’t seem to stop being murdered.

One thing above all: none of them must look out of the window.

Victimese

“I was thinking, Eve, that you need to touch bottom - just so you know you can do it. So you know it’s not that difficult; so you know that you don’t have to tunnel far; so you know that you’re not that actually as deep as you think you are.”

Eve is unable to leave her student room but unable to bear staying in it. In harming herself she hopes to demonstrate her courage and independence to both herself and her friends. But her sister’s arrival and need for her friendship forces her to face painful truths and to examine whether it is possible to temper emotional courage with the humanity to give and ask for aid.

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:51:29 +0100

friend: there's a life outside the internet

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:46:05 +0100

friend: there's a life outside the internet
me: send me the link

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Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:25:41 +0100

Saturday essentials.

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:25:08 +0100

Saturday essentials.

lovequotesrus: Photo Courtesy: dejiprincess

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:10:13 +0100

lovequotesrus:

Photo Courtesy: dejiprincess

streetetiquette: Adrien Sauvage on the road with Yasiin Bey...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:50:20 +0100

streetetiquette:

Adrien Sauvage on the road with Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)

Adrien provides the threads and Yasiin provides what he does best. Two of my good friends working together is an amazing thing, looking forward to the final product of all of this. A great email to receive this morning.

Follow my fellow Ghanaian brother Adrien on Tumblr or his website to view his full collection.

photos by Adrien Sauvage

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Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:04:52 +0100

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Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:36:49 +0100

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Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:59:16 +0100

The truth will set you free, but first it will tie you to a chair and whoop your ass while everyone laughs at you.

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:41:02 +0100

what-do-i-wear: Evolution by Giuseppe Zanotti Sneakers

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:21:47 +0100

what-do-i-wear:

Evolution by Giuseppe Zanotti Sneakers

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Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:52:03 +0100

idja: Femi Kuti and the Positive Force LIVE on a KLM...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:02:01 +0100

idja:

Femi Kuti and the Positive Force LIVE on a KLM Flight at 38000ft above Africa!

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Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:59:28 +0100