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@MODATHIRZAIN شكراً جزيلاً و الله يسلمك! 🙏🏾🕊️

@labushouk Congrats Doc , الحمد لله علي السلامة

as a Sudanese citizen, i was pushed out of the US after Trump’s June 9, 2025 ban, meaning i could no longer defend my dissertation in person. years of hard work came to an end today over zoom. still, im grateful Princeton & my advisers allowed me to see it thru to the end. 🙋🏾‍♀️🎓🪬

@ikhide @ChisomoWrites thank you for reading!

"To be published in Granta in many ways announces that one has arrived, at least in the metropolitan Euro-American context. What happened next with Jamir Nazir’s winning story is, therefore, not only a scandal about AI fraud, but is also a revealing episode in a much longer history of how elite, metropolitan literary institutions have read—and misread—writing from the postcolonial world." Lina Aboushok writing in @africasacountry This is such a beautiful and thought-provoking essay on the AI-Granta controversy. Impressive and intimidating that such a rigorous work could be produced at such short notice. #RESPECT Read and enjoy! Read: How to read postcolonial writing africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to…

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world. airesistlist.org

Yes, the Ben-Gvir video is disgraceful. But that's not the issue. The (obvious) issue is that if that's how nonviolent European protesters are treated in public, any person with a brain can imagine how Palestinians are treated behind closed doors. *That* is the real scandal.

@Ashri_Gorte ayeee! thank you, thank you! 🕊️appreciate you! 💕💕

@labushouk My fave sister is nowwww a doctor 💕💕 Dr Lina has an amazing ring to it Alf Alf Alf Mabrook Dr 🫶🏽💕💕

@KholoodKhair thank you 🙏🏾 that's very kind!

@labushouk Huge congratulations, well deserved 🎊 a herculean effort 👏 👏 👏

@ElbashirIdris_ thanks so much! 🙏🏾

@NU_B_YA @mohimg thank you! :)

@labushouk @mohimg Mabrook 🙏🏽❤️

@bananaig1a thanks so much!

@labushouk Congratulations!! 🎉🎈👏🏿

@BSonblast Allah yasalimik! wa shukran jazilan! <3

@labushouk MABROOOOOOK W HAMDILLA 3ALASSALAMA!

@moehash1 haha. thanks! i appreciate it.

@labushouk Congratulations Doc

@SimsimAlbadri thank you <333 i appreciate it :)

@labushouk Congratulations! Alhamdulillah you’re safe now🩷

my two cents for @africasacountry "the Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive." africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to…

Joe Biden and his administration were so committed to slaughtering Palestinian children, they let the Sudanese be slaughtered too. The Democrats clapped along.

@BigMeanInternet Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, author of "The Rise of the African Novel," makes the case for editing Tutuola for clarity, thereby fulfilling Tutuola's wish to standardize his "WRONG English." if a new edition came out, it's something worth considering. ofc, it would impact the q of reception.

@labushouk Someone should do a new edition, I'm curious how today's US literary audience would read it. I picked it up by chance and found it obviously, singularly, staggeringly good.

Do people really still think of The Palm-Wine Drinkard like this? I know a little bit of the controversy from the intro in my edition but it's kinda laughable now given the work in its contemporary context, no?

@SkimmyFizmo oh, 100%. that's why i said he was "gifted" & put "good" in quotations. the quote is from a letter that Tutuola himself wrote to the editors at Faber & Faber. this was his own perception of his writing.

@labushouk The judgement of standard english being "good" is already based on racist standards. The langauge that tutuola wrote in is as valid as standard english. It is not bad, only different.

tbh, this Granta episode reminds me of Amos Tutuola's dealings with Faber & Faber in the 50s. an untotured writer, he asked the editors to correct what he called his "BAD English." the editors didnt, b/c F&F thought his writing showed the unmediated utterance of the primitive..1/

apologies for the typos. frantic typing. 1. untutored 2. Tutuola 3. rather than seeing 4. meditating

unfathomable nonsense. btw, the editor of F & F at the time was none other than T.S Eliot. it's worth mediatating on modernism's obsession with the primitive & what that meant in terms of representations of the Other.