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Wrote a little something for @thebookseller about the colonial nature of publishing and why "diversity and inclusion" isn't enough.
Publishing Must Decolonise | thebookseller.com/blogs/publishi…
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Layla Mohamed
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Layla Mohamed
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Editor @CassavaRepublic. Big believer in Radical Empathy. 🇸🇴☪️
London, England Katılım Şubat 2016
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So proud to have had the opportunity to edit this truly one of a kind novel from a writer who is here to change the game @Marciathewriter!
And what a gorgeous cover as always from the talented @MrKeenan!
Can't wait for the world to discove #TheMercyStep this July 🙌🏿
Cassava Republic@CassavaRepublic
🎉COVER REVEAL We’re thrilled to share the cover for #TheMercyStep by @Marciathewriter, out this July! Step into 1960s Bradford with Mercy, a bold young girl navigating family, faith & survival in a Windrush home. 🖇️Pre-order now: bit.ly/themercystep
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Please consider donating to Maysara’s GFM. He is solely responsible for his parents and 9 siblings. They need money for basic needs like food, medication and elderly diapers. No amount is too small!
Maysara Musleh in Gaza@MuslehMay43064
I wish I died of hunger. No one cares about me. 😞 gofund.me/daf00393
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david lynch was a genius cause he understood the creepiest thing a person can be is white
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A ceasefire doesn't mean the genocide has ended, but rather that its pace has slowed. The Zionist entity is inherently genocidal & its incumbent upon those of us in solidarity to make that understood, sustain pressure & do all that we can to materially support those in Gaza.
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📚Celebrating the best in African literature! @brittlepaper’s annual Notable African Books list is finally here! We're thrilled to see Olumide Popoola's #LikeWaterLikeSea featured. Check out the full list and discover more brilliant titles!
brittlepaper.com/2024/12/announ…
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Nikki Giovanni, a literary titan whose words reshaped the landscape of Black arts and poetry.
As a contributor to Wild Imperfections—An Anthology of Womanist poems edited by Natalia Molebatsi, Nikki shared her indomitable voice-
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Writer and performance artist @_cherisemorris_ has won the inaugural @CassavaRepublic Global Black Women's Non-fiction Manuscript Prize
bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)
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🏆MEET THE WINNERS!🏆
🌟 Huge congratulations to @_cherisemorris_, winner of the inaugural Global Black Women’s Non-fiction Manuscript Prize for her stunning manuscript, the cosmic matter of Black lives!
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African indie publishers are crucial in the production of African lit. They identify critical missing pieces without having the cookie cutter of profit-and-all-else-be-damned approach of big publishers. With this prize, @CassavaRepublic does that for Black women's non-fiction.
Cassava Republic@CassavaRepublic
🎉HAPPENING TODAY! 🏆Join us as we unveil the winners of the inaugural Global Black Women’s Non-fiction Manuscript Prize, celebrating the transformative ideas of Black women in non-fiction!
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need this energy to spread internationally
Quds News Network@QudsNen
Pro-Palestine activists have raided the Catherine ship, which was carrying out Israeli explosives, in Istanbul's Haydarpasa Port.
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the unspoken drawback to Dubai is that it is created by industrialized slavery on a scale not seen since…ever, basically. dig 5 feet and you will hit dead bodies. it is a spiritually rancid place, only enjoyable if your chest contains a sucking hole in place of a heart
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🏆We did it!💃🏿
Cassava Republic Press is honoured to accept the CANEX Prize for Publishing for #FemaleFearFactory by the phenomenal Professor @feminist_rogue!
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If there were videos of children being burnt alive while still on IVs in hospital tents in almost any part of the world, it would be the only headline today.
But it’s just Palestinians in Gaza again. May every criminal who has participated in this evil burn for eternity. Ameen
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Sha'ban Al-Dalou,19, as a software engineering freshman, Sep 2023, at Al-Azhar University of Gaza.
Israel destroyed his home and his university and immolated him yesterday at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after forcibly displacing him earlier last year.
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