Maria-Motunrayo Ayinke Adebisi🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩✊🏿

First in my bloodline to graduate from the University of Oxford and write books about Yoruba mythology.

RT @kycarrerolopez: toni morrison tried to break this down for everybody long ago elle.com/beauty/makeup-…

RT @Abzsm121: Let’s help get their pilot episode picked up by the BBC inshallah , it drops tomorrow 11th April!

My Yorùbá ancestors knew this and passed it down to us....they taught us the name of trees and shrubs and roots....they taught us how to speak to them and ask for their help when lost in the forest or when sick ....all of this is embedded in IFÁ...it's not new.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, your wedding vows (!), I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

A former student who caught meningitis which left her ‘broken’ says she wants to raise awareness about the lesser known cognitive effects of the disease after the recent outbreak on the same Kent University campus where she had collapsed years prior. thecommunityreporter.co.uk/p/i-collapsed-…

Edna Mmbali Ombakho came to the UK from Kenya to study and reach her goals, only to end up being found dead in a body of water. No wall-to-wall mainstream media coverage. No televised press conference. Just one local news report followed by silence. open.substack.com/pub/melissasig…

I hate the way writers have to be influencers now. It’s the single worst thing that has happened to books. Good writers have to waste valuable time making content when they should be writing, bad writers get book deals because they have a lot of followers

@kolaayanwuyi I feel like Brazillian's upkeeping the spirutal aspects of Yoruba culture, while a lot of Yorubas in Nigeria condemn it speak to what you're saying here.

Not all heritage disappears when it leaves home; sometimes the diaspora becomes the archive of what the homeland has forgotten.

@moniza_hossain @BWheelerBooks @ZephonSacriel So bad, especially if you're neurodivergent. I can't justify spending 3 days making one social media post when I could've written a chapter in that time.

@BWheelerBooks @ZephonSacriel It’s horrible! And so bad for mental health. I waste so much time making graphics on Canva too

@moniza_hossain @QueenOfTheMM Very

@QueenOfTheMM It’s dystopian

@moniza_hossain We need to talk more about this. I am a Writer, and I do not have the ability to write and create social media content, I'm too sensitive, too obsessed with making and remaking my craft. And that used to be fine, now it's not. It's a damn shame.

Amongst the many outrages of Nigerian leadership is their total disregard for archaeology. They let people dump trash into sites that were maintained until the mid 20th century by the same families that built them and bore holes through ancient fortresses to build ugly mansions

Happy International Women’s Day to all the stubborn women! To the survivors who were able to fight back To the girls who challenge benevolent misogyny. To the outspoken womanist & feminist To the audacious woman To girls who can’t be stopped To the village of women who raise us❤️

Women have always carried each other forward. Through craft, through knowledge, through hands that built, fed, and held entire worlds together. To every woman pushing barriers and raising the standard… today and every day. Happy International Women’s Day 🤍

If you see this, please repost. It goes a long way for an artist Thank you

Last year we asked families and volunteers what they thought of our Sickle Cell Family Retreat — here’s what they said. Registration for 2026 is now open. Secure your place today: buff.ly/D8v5PUe #SickleCell #FamilySupport #ApplyNow

Pls take two minutes to listen to her entire response not just the one sentence highlighted in the caption. She lays it out PERFECTLY. "I'll first say a big shout out to Mike and Delroy, like let's continue to honor them for how they handled that in real time, the grace and the dignity that they exercised, and the whole home team, everybody that was out there, like really carried themselves well. I think the events this weekend exposed a couple things - Institutionally, we still don't understand what inclusion means." "Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don't provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in that room safe by them being there, that's not inclusivity. That's exploitation." "That man's disability got exploited that night, and it led to multiple offenses. That's the BAFTA's fault. And then the BBC, to air what they aired is careless." "And not like some haphazard accident, no, like a real lack of care was exercised for those two Black men. And we know the BBC knows how to take care of what they care about, right, because they censored a bunch of other... they went so far as to make sure certain things weren't topics of conversation." "They censored Akinola's speech, the director of My Father's Shadow, which is an amazing film, by the way. So you censored one Black man, you failed to protect two others, and our production designer, Hannah, you do not care for our dignity, our humanity." "You want to celebrate our art, but you won't protect, and that's why we celebrate sinners. That's why we celebrate Ryan. That's why we show up to the NAACP, because those are spaces where we felt safe, where we feel safe." - Jayme Lawson

Happy #RareDiseaseDay. Sickle cell is one of the fastest growing genetic conditions in the UK— yet it remains under-resourced. We’re joining Genetic Alliance UK to call for equity in rare diseases. See powerful artwork by Rose Matheson capturing what equity means. #SickleCell

@lolashoneyin @Ouida_Lagos @bookbuzzNG @MissWanaWana Happy birthday!💙💙💙

Huge thanks to everyone who called and sent messages. I had a lovely 52nd birthday, thanks to my fantastic @Ouida_Lagos & @bookbuzzNG teams who got me such thoughtful presents! Thank you so much. Thanks also to @MissWanaWana, Tunde Lawal and my bestie for swinging round. ❤️❤️❤️

If you went to school in the UK, you probably weren't taught this... Here are 3 things the Global Black Narratives for the Classroom books teach that your school didn’t! 🖤 #GlobalBlackNarratives #BlackHistory