Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
Eghosa Imasuen
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Eghosa Imasuen
@eimasuen
Publisher, novelist, former medical doctor. Buy my book: https://t.co/zKDzTTpmOr and https://t.co/Lzt1FYmEFM…
Lagos, Nigeria เข้าร่วม Mart 2011
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Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
Wrapped up my tour today at the @NarrativeLscape office.
My hearty thanks to directors @anwulipriscilla & @eimasuen, editorial assistant @joytothewords_, moderators @betaservio & @FaithyWanny, tour partner @Rovingheights, book clubs & all readers who attended the book events. 🤍
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Ikeja, Nigeria 🇳🇬 English
@dejitoye @tadepen @eimasuen @nigeriantribune Pretty sure no exhibition held. I'm embedded in the space and never heard of these ones. Silva Ndifon images, the supposed 'art' - worse than those of street spray painters on Allen corner. AI, embarrassing stuff, blurry like images on old newspapers used to wipe a greasy engine.
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Who is Silva Ndifon?
Crazy thing, last night I discovered that in March 2022, a "review" of Ndifon's "art" was published in @nigeriantribune - with my byline!!!
Never heard of Ndifon until last night. I didn't write this. This is fraud, grand deception, a confidence trick.
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@dejitoye @molarawood @tadepen @nigeriantribune Bro. No exhibition. Nah-thing happened. Na straight hustle: see the art genre: photography. Remaining small, AI generated images go join. Global Talent Visa. So embarrassing this thing happened with a newspaper of such vintage. Next thing, UK will insist on only foreign reviews
Ikeja, Nigeria 🇳🇬 English
@molarawood @tadepen @eimasuen @nigeriantribune I wish an investigative journalist would dig into the story, particularly to find if, in fact, any of these exhibitions even held at all, or if the works actually exist.
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@molarawood @nigeriantribune Ah! This is madness. It must be the UK's Global Talent Visa thing. Na wa. It will reach their ears soon.
Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬 English
Another article supposedly published by Nigerian Tribune three years ago under my byline & which I DIDN'T WRITE. This time on Adanu Emmanuel Okoro, who I've never heard of before.
tribuneonlineng.com/holding-as-her…
@nigeriantribune, PULL THIS PAGE DOWN NOW.
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Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
So, on the discussion around African book piracy (I met a publisher in Nigeria whose son was reading a pirated copy of one his books), can we also talk about the terrible contracts that the African Writers in the series signed often for life? And when asked, Heinemann (as far as I know) wouldn’t allow them to renegotiate no matter how well the book was doing?
The African ecosystem needs to be recalibrated so that it is fair to the writers, publishers, literary agents, book sellers, readers and literary critics.
From my own perspective as a writer - my novel say Nairobi Heat at 12.5 percent royalties - I would have to sell 100,000 copies a year to make 12,500 dollars (10% of that goes to the literary agent.) Only very few writers can sell enough books or make enough money from speaking gigs to make a minimum wage living. So, every book pirated is a dollar stolen from the writer.
I do also think this math is important for upcoming writers to think about because from the outside, it does look like a glamorous jet-setting life from festival to festival, from gig to gig talking about this thing that you love but the economic reality is bad. But we write because we must so in a way writers are very from the start exploitable.
I love teaching and would be teaching even if I made enough from my writing, but the reality is also I cannot survive without my job so in a way it is not a choice I made – the economics of being a writer made it for me…even though I would be doing it anyway.
Publishers and literary agents also do their own math. As do book sellers. I think it is more useful for us to think about our literary eco-system as broken, and how best to fix it. And for starters, let’s hold Heinemann accountable for the African writers in the AWS. As Molara notes, even though most of them are gone, they do have estates and relatives.
And we can also acknowledge that the problem is we inherited colonial publishing. Probably the most disastrous policy has been educational publishing where the goal is to have a novel be a set book. We should do all we can do to support African independent publishers and bookstores because we urgently and seriously need to if we are to get out of shall we call it neocolonial publishing structures.
Anyway, this is a discussion worth having at every African literature gathering, be it a conference or festival.
Molara Wood@molarawood
@literarygansta @brittlepaper Not a good look, for a platform that prides itself as a website of African literary record. Here below, a more honest account by @PremiumTimesng, arguably. premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/…
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Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
Nigerian media is so embarrassing, Jesus...
Newtelegraphng@NewTelegraphNIG
Is it right to strip Senegal of AFCON title? Is this a disgrace to African football?
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Which kind of poll is this? Two questions that if one is in agreement will have opposing answers of yes and no.
Newtelegraphng@NewTelegraphNIG
Is it right to strip Senegal of AFCON title? Is this a disgrace to African football?
Ikeja, Nigeria 🇳🇬 English
Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
As bad as tonight’s decision is, it might not be CAF’s worst
Ahead of the 2010 AFCON, the Togo team bus was shot at, resulting in 3 dead, 9 injured. CAF suspended Togo for the next two AFCONs for “government interference” after the team flew home to deal with the trauma
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Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
@4wavePepe @CameronCorduroy One professor we know had his NIH grant terminated because his grant mentioned "diversity of lymphocytes." This is just ridiculous..
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JK 😜
“I have been given this language and I intend to use it… I will do unheard‑of things with it.” Achebe - The African Writer and the English Language.
It's ours now.
Ikeja, Nigeria 🇳🇬 English
“A man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body.” - Chinua Achebe - The Novelist as Teacher 1965. It's English. The English have just forgotten how to speak it.
Dominant Daddy .𖥔 ݁ ˖𓆩♱𓆪⋆｡˚@Tega__aa
A few days ago, I said 'rain beat me' to my classmates, and they looked at me strangely because they didn’t understand. I then realised it was just Nigerian English.😭When I explained it literally, they understood and even talked about how much sense it actually made.
Ikeja, Nigeria 🇳🇬 English
Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
Again, I voted for McCain and Romney, this is a ridiculous & dishonest mischaracterization of Obama. In reality, Obama was incredibly constrained - largely because he knew that a large segment of society was eager to paint him as a stereotypical “angry black man.”
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
If you want to know why Donald Trump was elected, watch Barack Obama’s attack speech yesterday at Jesse Jackson’s funeral. As he did throughout his presidency, he created a straw man to describe Republicans as bigots who force the American people to “turn on each other”. He said similar crap when he was President and the GOP was the party of Bush, McCain and Romney. It’s the language of bitterness and resentment that makes good people recoil to be described that way. Obama is one of the most divisive figures in US history, except he is celebrated by the MSM because they are partisans. They take sides and loved and protected Obama. It’s no wonder a tough, no BS, bull in the China shop emerged. That person was a fed up Trump, who broke the MSM by not caring what they thought. He showed Rs they could punch back against the Ds and win. His rise coincided with the welcome birth, at long last, of conservative media which gave voice to the voiceless who had been forced to consume the prejudices of the MSM. I can’t stand Obama. He was weak, patronizing, condescending and he put America last. But having listened to him yesterday, I reminded the only good thing he did was help elect President Trump.
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Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
"The Black Guy made us racist"
Is the dumbest of all the @GOP political positions.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
If you want to know why Donald Trump was elected, watch Barack Obama’s attack speech yesterday at Jesse Jackson’s funeral. As he did throughout his presidency, he created a straw man to describe Republicans as bigots who force the American people to “turn on each other”. He said similar crap when he was President and the GOP was the party of Bush, McCain and Romney. It’s the language of bitterness and resentment that makes good people recoil to be described that way. Obama is one of the most divisive figures in US history, except he is celebrated by the MSM because they are partisans. They take sides and loved and protected Obama. It’s no wonder a tough, no BS, bull in the China shop emerged. That person was a fed up Trump, who broke the MSM by not caring what they thought. He showed Rs they could punch back against the Ds and win. His rise coincided with the welcome birth, at long last, of conservative media which gave voice to the voiceless who had been forced to consume the prejudices of the MSM. I can’t stand Obama. He was weak, patronizing, condescending and he put America last. But having listened to him yesterday, I reminded the only good thing he did was help elect President Trump.
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@CharlesofLaylay The door is still open.
Victoria Island, Nigeria 🇳🇬 English
@AfriTales1693 @eimasuen Ah. Maybe the fact that I didn't write anything
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@eimasuen is also a remarkable writer. Fine Boys is excellent. Although I was saddened by the allusion to languages disappearing within families.
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Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
@richo As a Liberian, I am very proud of how my countrymen showcased Liberia to Speed and the world. The Watkins, Thompsons, Wrights, Wilkins, Cookes, Croziers, Newports, Roberts, etc., were all previously enslaved black or mixed men who settled in Liberia in 1822 from the US.
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Eghosa Imasuen รีทวีตแล้ว
I renounce my support for Nazism.
I will now use my private wealth to help the poorest and most exploited people on the planet.
I will support a return to democracy and decency in the USA.
I’m sorry.
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Na wa
Nick Schifrin@nickschifrin
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
Ogogoro Village, Nigeria 🇳🇬 Filipino