Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

Speaking distinctively / Baking dramaticallyflaminghydra.com Today: Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, founder of Olongo Africa, and writer and producer of the documentary, Ebrohimie Road; and Carrie Frye, writer and book editor at Black ...

TODAY: a fascinating read from @kolatubosun.bsky.social on what Reader's Digest U.K. (RIP) meant to him growing up in Nigeria, and thoughts on the "global archipelago of English speakers" flaminghydra.com/issue-106/#d...

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The Pen and the Bladeflaminghydra.com by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún I’ve read only two books by Salman Rushdie: the one that won him global notoriety in 1989, and his latest. I first read The Satanic Verses in college in the early aughts, and...

ALSO TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social on Salman Rushdie's book about the knife attack that nearly killed him. "It’s the story of the author as a man, imperfect, coming back to life, examining his life and those of the people around him, being vulnerable, being human." flaminghydra.com/the-pen-and-...

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'The Satanic Verses' was published in a more innocent time. Join @kolatubosun.bsky.social on a tour into literary decline: flaminghydra.com/the-pen-and-...

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Àjàlá in the Holy Landflaminghydra.com by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún In November 2022, OlongoAfrica revived a classic memoir, first published in 1963, that had long been out of print: An African Abroad by Ọlábísí Àjàlá. One of the reasons ...

ALSO TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social on the reissue of a classic 1960s book, An African Aboard, which details a tense encounter between its author, a Bedouin man and the Israeli military police in a lonely cafe on a desert road flaminghydra.com/ajala-in-the...

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Community on wheels / Jerusalem in the ’60sflaminghydra.com Today: David Moore, co-founder of Sludge; and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, founder of Olongo Africa, and writer and producer of the forthcoming documentary, Ebrohimie Road...

Genius perspectives you cannot read elsewhere. @sanschain.bsky.social on bicycles and their implications AND @kolatubosun.bsky.social on Jerusalem in the 1960s flaminghydra.com/issue-83/ SUBSCRIBE to Flaming Hydra flaminghydra.com/subscribe and preserve this rare place for the real thing

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New Writings in the New Worldflaminghydra.com by Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún A while ago, while organizing a road trip through the U.S., I realized that if I were to plan the journey around visits to writer friends and colleagues whose work I enjoyed, or w...

From @kolatubosun.bsky.social, a delightful map of US-based writers of the Nigerian Diaspora: flaminghydra.com/new-writings...

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The United States of Nigerian writers / The peaceful, untidy homeflaminghydra.com Today: Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, founder of Olongo Africa, and author of the poetry collection Edwardsville by Heart; and Diana Moskovitz, investigations editor, writer...

TODAY: @kolatubosun.bsky.social on the Nigerian diaspora writers of the United States, and @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social on her untidy house, herself flaminghydra.com/the-united-s...

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To the Man In a Yarmulkeflaminghydra.com at the 'One Love' movie

What's it like to wear your faith on your sleeve? A poem from @kolatubosun.bsky.social: flaminghydra.com/to-the-man-i...

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Power to the press / Redemption songflaminghydra.com Today: k.e. harloe, a freelance writer based in New York, author of the newsletter media x capital and the column Mediaquake at Popula; and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, fo...

TODAY: a nice piece about What the Fuck is Wrong with the Media Executives, local news outlets and the media justice movement from @keharloe.bsky.social, and a hopeful poem/imagined conversation with a stranger in a movie theater from @kolatubosun.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-38/

Got something cooking. ebrohimie.olongoafrica.com

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory - Ebrohimie by Olongoafricaebrohimie.olongoafrica.com

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Big River Keeps Flowing / Birthdays Keep Comingflaminghydra.com Today: Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, founder of Olongo Africa and author of the poetry collection Edwardsville by Heart; and Amy Chu, artist and publisher of Camoot.Journal. Issue No. 10 Take Me To The River Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún One Birthday Amy

On the Mississippi and its relationship to colonialism by @kolatubosun.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/iss...@kolatubosun.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/iss...

New work.

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The Mississippi River flowing through the life of @kolatubosun.bsky.social; a beautiful comic from Amy Chu about eek! Birthdays, today in @flaminghydra.bsky.social flaminghydra.com

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