Psychiatrist, poet, loves fiction, Chekhov and Borges
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Akinpelu Obisesan (1889–1963) of Ibadan, was one of Africa’s great diarists of the early 20th century.
He left behind 14,000 diary entries across four decades.
His diary gives us a useful peep into a 19th/20th century mind.
Here are chronologically arranged random excerpts.
Akinpelu Obisesan (1889–1963)
Dairist, Entrepreneur
He was born in Ibadan to the family of an elephant hunter: Aperin Obisesan and a slave woman. He attended various schools managed by the Church Missionary Society and he became a prolific writer.
#Yoruba
Image taken 1941
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Lula’s victory will be greeted with horror in Silicon Valley. Outside the EU, Brazil has been the biggest holders to account of US tech firms. And Facebook’s actions before the election deserve proper scrutiny
I’ve spent the morning at Kunst Museum Brandts Odense. Tau Lewis’ Mouth Close to Earth exhibition was 👌
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Do depression screening tools work the same way across countries? @juliotorales et al #depression
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@DrHowardLiu @ebrahim_sader @avi_medicine @FemiMind
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Please read and share our paper in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry👇🏻
It was inspired by a case of a young woman with severe anorexia nervosa @cbulik @solmi_marco @AngelaGuarda and the assisted dying controversy.
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Judge warns Trump his $10B lawsuit against the BBC could be tossed over a fight for records and insists the president must sit for a deposition. cnn.it/4zMUogP
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Victor Ehikhamenor debuts CENTRAL HOTEL, his first fiction collection: 11 interconnected stories, illustrated with pencil drawings, moving between Nigeria and the diaspora. Out October 30 from @masobebooks, with a Lagos launch October 31! ✍🏾 @victorsozaboy brittlepaper.com/2026/10/vic…
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Daughter Ruby Aeron’s brilliant debut album out later this month! Do please share and presave for Spotify, Apple or Amazon music!
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🧠 Sat 24 Oct (13:50–15:00)
Meet the Xperts: Wealth/Pensions (J Godfrey), CESR/CCT (Dr Ubah, T Asumoh, Dr Okolo), Surgical Missions (M Salami, Dr Fapohunda, Prof Oben), GP (Dr Obilanade MBE).
📚 10 CPD points.
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The meaning and symbols of the different Yoruba tattoo and how the patterns and motifs were derived.
Most Yoruba tattoo motifs were derived from nature and featured cowrie shells (esa), lizards (alangba), palm trees (igi ope), arrows (ofa), ostrich (ogongo), vulture (igun), dove (adaba), chameleon (agemo), centipede (okun), butterfly (labalaba), corn cobs (agbado), and the “moon of honour” (osu ola).
Other motifs were taken from the material world and encompassed dance wands (ose) of the Thunder god Sango, Islamic writing boards (walaa), arm amulets (apa tira), a king’s crown (ade oba), staffs of authority (opa oye), game boards (opon ayo), anthropomorphs, the tattooist’s Y-shaped blade (abe), and even scissors, airplanes, wristwatches, and personal names in recent times.
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link.springer.com/book/10.10… Open Access "Psychiatry after Kraepelin" reviewed in bjpsych behind paywall, so share last paragraph. Incredibly grateful to co-editor + all the authors. @AllenFrancesMD @mariusturda @JRBneuropsiq @awaisaftab @BeresfordPeter @FemiMind @ChrisMeechan2
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GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT 📢📢
Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1 is a Nigerian writer and culture journalist... He also co-founded Saraba, The Lagos Review and Yaba Left Review.
Read more: tinyurl.com/akeguests
#Ake2026 #akefestival
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Very excited to share the most important discovery of my career yet: your brain switches between a conscious and an unconscious mode ~15 times every second. Consciousness may depend not on where in the brain activity occurs but when.
Find out more below.
bit.ly/3WvA6di
1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)
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Hello,
My latest novel The Gele Gang will be available in February 2027.
It is the first of my post-lockdown novels. Inspired by Nigerian weddings I attended, it looks and feels like lime sorbet. It's light, sweet and tart, and cleansed my palate for my next course.
Sefi
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I have a new short story out in AGNI 104, as part of "PROXIMITY: A Portfolio of Writing & Art by Women of Color."
Story title: Bridge of Souls.
agnionline.bu.edu/about/the-…
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The United States of Africa?
Presented by @ishowspeed, executive produced by @barackobama and @michelleobama, and directed by two-time Academy Award winner @bgprooudfoot, THE EYES OF GHANA follows the story of Chris Hesse – the personal cameraman to the first president of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Only in theaters October 28. Get tickets now. Don’t worry Ghana, Canada, and London, news of screenings near you will be announced shortly!
Dates for Ghana and UK screenings coming soon.
@theeyesofghana | @ishowspeed | @bgproudfoot | @breakwaterstudios | @michelleobama | @barackobama
ALT The United States of Africa? Presented by @ishowspeed, executive produced by @barackobama and @michelleobama, and directed by two-time Academy Award winner @bgprooudfoot, THE EYES OF GHANA follows the story of Chris Hesse – the personal cameraman to the first president of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Only in theaters October 28. Get tickets now. Don’t worry Ghana, Canada, and London, news of screenings near you will be announced shortly! Dates for Ghana and UK screenings coming soon. @theeyesofghana | @ishowspeed | @bgproudfoot | @breakwaterstudios | @michelleobama | @barackobama