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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
@AyaRoots
🇹🇹WHEN WE WERE BIRDS (2022) OCM Bocas Prize, Author’s Club First Novel Award, Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award | Agent - Tracy Bohan, Wylie Agency
Norwich/Trinidad & Tobago Katılım Nisan 2009
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A world of different perspectives.
Our latest @bookshop_org_UK shelf spotlights @nbolitfest 2025 participants – a reading list of insightful storytelling for our times.
Dive in! uk.bookshop.org/lists/nairobi-…
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@taoleighgoffe @olivesenior How have i only just seen this?? Really flattered. I’ve got yours on my list of next reads
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Grateful to the Black and Asian birdwatchers from South America and the Caribbean who have taught me how to listen in the rainforest.
This quote by @olivesenior 🥰- ‘Come. The first lesson: how to fold your wings into a heartbeat’ 💓 🦜🦜
New York, NY 🇺🇸 English
Birds on the brain! 🦜🐔 enjoying these two books as I research the bird chapter of my book on climate crisis.
📕 @bocaslitfest winner WHEN WE WERE BIRDS by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo @ayaroots @doubledaybooks
📕UNDER THE HENFLUENCE by Tove Danovich @TKDano.
Manhattan, NY 🇺🇸 English
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Cécile Fatiman was a mambo, a Haitian vodou priestess. She is famous for her participation in the vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman, which is considered to be the starting point of the Haitian Revolution. #negritude #PanAfricanism #Haiti #Ayiti #CecileFatiman #haitianheritage
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@RyanCecilJobson @UChicagoPress Enjoyed the talk on zoom last night. My copy is on the way. Congrats!🎉
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Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago).
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
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🚨The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
icc-cpi.int/news/situation…
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@edincarib @UofGWriting @colinjherd Hii!! This is at 10 tmrw morning. Hope I see some of you. Sorry I didn’t post about it here before hand x
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@UofGWriting @AyaRoots @colinjherd Oh no way! Half our group would have come out if we had known...so many of us have read the wonderful When We Were Birds. So many Trinis in the group too
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@AyaRoots the award winning author of When We Were Birds in conversation with @colinjherd at tonight’s Creative Conversations
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Just so y'all know, the 45 day Israeli military closure of Al-Jazeera in The West Bank exactly corresponds with the US presidential elections on November 5th.
Because of course it does. Settler violence never plays well...
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🏆The 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is open for submissions.🏆
Now in its 15th year, the prize celebrates books of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by writers of Caribbean birth/citizenship.
Info at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/
@OCM_Group #OCMBocasPrize2025
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In the words of the great Jab King: JAB COULD NEVER HIDE. 🇬🇩
This video recap of Spicemas 2024 in Grenada makes me very emotional. Black people are so powerful beyond measure. The Caribbean will always be a Cultural Capital of the world! 🖤
#SpicemasPressPosse
#presstrip473
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@xaymacans Yeah it seems like my close Trini people here stopped going years ago too. No J’ouvert is something else though. When Carnival have no J’ouvert then the thing properly lost its way. Is something else now
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When Eastern Caribbean people start the fire of restitution and resistance for NHC, I'll happily help fan the flames.
One Any Lover Girl 🇯🇲🇬🇾@SmaddyMadda
Gather round for Spark Notes lesson on Notting Hill Carnival. NHC is unlike other carnivals. Its roots lie as Claudia Jones' community effort to ease racial tension against densely West Indian populated areas (Notting Hill/Brixton) in the 50s after the murder of Kelso Cochrane.
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$20b in weapons to continue a genocide they say is not happening.
Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias
hard to comprehend sheer inhumanity of Biden admin approving $20 billion arms deal to Israel knowing the country has killed 15,000 kids in Gaza, including 115 newborns. 17,000 kids are separated from families, & likely 4,000 kids — a 9/11 of just kids — still buried under rubble
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@buhdahwee Somehow my brain change this to ‘curry a duck’ and thought well yeah that’s fair.
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@Camille_U_Adams @sebbe868 Same! He just naturally funny. He must be was one of those little boys always making the back of the class laugh and have everybody getting licks 😂
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@sebbe868 No judgement. He does have me going 😆 Is like if you ever in a bad mood, watch his videos.
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Guys I just need y’all to know I cry laughing in bed at KyleBoss videos. 😩 His facial expressions are spot on every time 😩I always think I’m not going to laugh, cuz is chupidness and then I laugh.
That’s all. Thanks for listening and not judging me. 🫣
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My name is Tenille Clarke. I am the 2024 Female Entrepreneur of the Year, awarded by the National Entrepreneurship Development Company Limited (NEDCO) of the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Here’s a glimpse of the Gala… and a snippet of my story. 😊🇹🇹🖤
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@luca74419 @tenilleclarke1 Oh my gosh! Thank you ❤️ lots to type and I don’t want to take over @tenilleclarke1 thread. Short answers? Darwin was a Rasta before he even hit the page. He told me who he was. And misunderstood absence is emotionally interesting to write x
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@AyaRoots @tenilleclarke1 Broooo ! My favorite writer is under this tweet so casually. This dope.... 🫡 I've got so many questions from " When we were birds" ... ! Why a rastafarian ? How did you plot that complex father son relationship.
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Ok so hold on. Didn’t he announce this week that he caught COVID? And he is 81 years old. He just did an interview recommitting to his nomination. But also, a Sunday afternoon breaking news appointment of this political weight is RARE. No ma’am. My PR Spidey Senses are tingling.
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I’m now looking at the sequence of campaign activities. I need to recheck some things. But the tingle is there.
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo@AyaRoots
@tenilleclarke1 From time you hear Covid ent?
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