Farida Ladipo-Ajayi

I’ve been really into felt crafts lately and I had so much fun making this today🙂‍↕️

Afrori, a Brighton bookshop and the UK’s largest supplier of books by Black authors, is facing closure. They need to sell 1,000 books by next week. Please support if you can: afroribooks.co.uk

One day, I am going to open a Book Bar. People will come to share their problems, and I will comfort them with a drink and a book that speaks to their problem. My Book Bar will be styled like Coben and Dobernigg in Hamburg, the most stylish bookshop I've ever done an event in!

Need an activity as a reader, I host silent reading parties, every 2nd Saturday of the month at @Ouida_Lagos It starts at 11am and we bring snacks to share with other readers. I run a strict household, so you WILL get some reading done😎 Get tickets here paystack.shop/pay/ouidasilen…

If you're the mother who was reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone aloud to your child on the LNER train from London to Edinburgh yesterday, one of my grown up children was listening and says you did the voices brilliantly❤️🥹

Dear Masobe Readers, This one is for you. It’s finally here. We are proud to introduce the Masobe App— a new digital platform designed to make access to African books easier, more convenient, and significantly more affordable for readers everywhere.

Masobe just launched an app for e-readers😮!!! And sub fee is quite affordable 👀 Check here: instagram.com/reel/DWOsHk5Av…

My not-quite 15 mo loving books makes my heart swim. I started shoving books in her face the moment she got home. I can’t even take all the glory. Her being surrounded by books & curiosity seemed to have driven the interest.

Some of the most powerful interventions for learning don’t happen at school. Parents should be encouraged to provide: • A consistent and enforced bedtime • Removal of all electronics from the child's bedroom • Family meals eaten together • Books and time spent reading together

A child who reads twenty minutes a day encounters millions of words in a year. That exposure builds vocabulary, background knowledge, and language patterns. No worksheet can compete with that. Reading widely is one of the most powerful learning engines we have.

The good news from both public and private schools in the South East now is that students love for mathematics have skyrocketed at a scale never have seen before. Once maths it’s solved for children, their learning journey on other subjects becomes so easy. There is progress!

This is the maths teacher from Evergreen schools Enugu. His name is Master Chisom Unachukwu. His students took 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions for Junior Category for South East Maths Olympiad Grand Finale. These boys are hooot!!!!

Yesterday was World Book Day. Many parents were struggling to dress their kids up as characters from books, even though I’ve been giving them a steady supply of easy costumes. Anyway, I saw this yesterday on IG and it made me super happy. 😍😍😍

Work News: Earlier this week, Nigerian artists (4 from each geo-political zone) started online classes with tutors from the Mimaster School of Illustration, Milan @Mimaster_Illo. Grateful to @BoChildrensBook & @EUinNigeria for supporting @bookbuzzNG’s goal of training 48 talented Nigerian youth to write / illustrate children’s books that will speak to the next generation. Our aim is to publish 20 high quality, culturally relevant children’s books for Nigerian shelves and the global market. Very excited about this cool project!

5-day in-person workshop for ILLUSTRATORS at @ouida_lagos with Slovenian illustrator Maša Žmitek. Only for artists who are passionate about creating meaningful stories for young readers. Fee: N70,000: paystack.shop/pay/childrensb… #ChildrensBooks #IllustrationWorkshop #BookBuzzFoundation

I am looking for a pre-doc to work with me on a ERC/UKRI funded project on skills and economic development. Based @warwickecon, flexible start date, competitive pay! UK Visa sponsorship possible. Deadline: March 22nd. For more info and to apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/12387.

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the education job is already done. That's my honest assessment after working in education for over thirty years. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology. Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

Write the story only you can tell. Submissions are now open for the Quramo Writers Prize 2026, calling African writers worldwide to submit original works of fiction. 🗓 Deadline: 31 May 2026 🔗 Submit via link: bit.ly/4kj41gB #QuramoWritersPrize #AfricanWriters

I work at a bookstore. Teenager came in daily. Read for hours. Never bought anything. Finally asked. “Looking for anything specific?” “Just reading. Can’t afford books. Library’s far. This is closer.” Let him stay. Read whatever. Whenever. Brought him snacks. Hot chocolate. Safe space. Learned his story. Foster kid. Seventh home. Books were his escape. His education. His hope.

A child who reads for pleasure will outlearn a child who reads for grades every single time. Curiosity beats compliance.