Cultural Historian | Producer | Host | Writer | Blacklist 30 Under 30 @guapmag x @adidasuk | Founder @BooksCampaign | Commissions: [email protected]
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Joined June 2019
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Thank you so much @SpotifyUK for inviting us down for the day and your continued support of Free Books Campaign! 💚 check out Spotify Audiobooks 📚
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SWEET HEAT🍭🔥 out today in 🇺🇸! Yearning, tension, growth, MESS, spice, wedding szn, a chaotic trip that makes it out the groupchat, the question of spinning the block, friendship drama and self evolution! Let's go! Link in bio! (If you're in the UK, it's already out!)
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We’re also taking away valuable learnings: about how to make the festival even more fluid, accessible, and joyful next time. Growth is part of the journey and we’re committed to making each year bigger, brighter, and better for everyone ✨
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Standing in a room filled with stories, ideas, and community reminded us why we do this. It was a proud and powerful moment to see the vision of this year’s festival come to fruition!
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To every single attendee, volunteer, panelist, author, workshop facilitator, and brand sponsor who poured their time, energy, and love into making this year’s festival happen: thank you from the bottom of our hearts 💚
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The Free Books Festival is back on 17th Aug 2025 at Big Penny Social, Walthamstow! 📚✨
Line-up includes Bolu Babalola, Kosar Ali, Dapo Adeola, Caleb Femi + more.
🎟️ Tickets = donations to build our Free Books Library in Senegal 🇸🇳
freebookscampaign.co.uk/fest…
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🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
EARLY-BIRD TICKETS ON SALE NOW 🎟️
This year’s festival takes place on 17th August at Big Penny Social set across one jam-packed day of activities, workshops, panels and demonstrations - as well as loads of freebies including food, and of course, books!
freebookscampaign.co.uk/fest…
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hey goodies! Free Books Campaign (@BooksCampaign) is a non-profit dedicated to bridging the access gap to literature for all! we're leaning on communities to help with funding our next festival on August 17th. please share or donate, tell a friend 💌👉🏾 gofund.me/400a0f34
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Through our collaboration with @Tate we're making art more accessible. If you'd like a ticket to this tomorrow, please email us at [email protected].
Limited number available, first come first served 💫
tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-mo…
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I really want to write an article about the best Black hair salons in Britain because I want 1) some positivity to write about when it comes to Black hair and 2) I need to know where the girls are going because the last time I went to a salon was as a kid.
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And you thought this prize couldn't get any more exciting... well here are the judges for @MoPrize, and they are ⭐️ titans ⭐️of the publishing industry:
📚Olivette Otele
📚 Paula Akpan
📚 @sofiaakel
📚 Emma Bal @MMLitAgency
📚 @TheSelinaBrown
📚 @TrapezeBooks @katieogunsakin
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produced by me 🤠
🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿 to the entire team that worked across this one
it’s time to come alive. summer begins at recessland 🌞
presale drops next weds!!! sign up at recess.land ⭐️
general onsale: next friday.
LET’S GO.
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my baby production company THEM ONES has been selected for the BBC Small Indie Fund 🎬 excited to be working with mentor Anu Henriques and the wider BBC Film team on our upcoming slate of feature films from some of the UK’s most exciting emerging talent
broadcastnow.co.uk/bbc/bbc-n…
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A man has climbed Big Ben next to the Houses of Parliament in protest against British support for Israel and has been up there for the whole day, but there seems to be a media blackout on it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
There isn't a media blackout. This story has been widely reported by several main stream media outlets (both print and TV) throughout the day.
bbc.com/news/articles/…
news.sky.com/story/man-hold…
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m…
telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/0…
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This cannot be swept away quietly!! We denounce this appointment from the writer of the Sewell/Sewage report that found the *UK to not be Institutionally Racist* he has no place looking at anything human rights related with that record.
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Come join us next weekend for our second Community Linkup with @Tate ✨
This time we’re heading to see the brand new exhibition Electric Dreams at Tate Modern.
📌 11am, 8th March
Grab your free ticket below:
lu.ma/kqp19l6n
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My novel; The Manual for Good Wives is out TODAY! A love letter to Black women in the Victorian era who have been erased from history & goes beyond the 'slave' & 'maid' narrative. About a women who is resourceful, wealthy & just happens to be Black...
#HistoricalFiction
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Peep the name at the bottom🥹🫶🏾❤️🔥
Margaret Qualley attends the "Blue Moon" premiere during the 75th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at the Berlinale Palast in Berlin, Germany.
More #GettyVideo #Berlinale2025 🎥 Kesewaa Browne 👉 shorturl.at/Me6YD
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Career updates 🤗🥳 Tenant Thompson 🥂
Nexus Chambers is thrilled to welcome Ife Thompson as a tenant!
Ife specialises in Crime, Family Law, Human Rights and Inquires. She is expanding her work in Protest Law & Public Children’s Law.
🌐 More info: (nexuschambers.com/insights/i…)
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Happy and heartbroken at the same time.
#FreeTheMCR10
📣 OUTCOME 📣
It’s a deeply bittersweet, heartbreaking and mixed outcome.
We will not stop the fight and support, there are still battles to be won.
Free The Manchester 10.
Free them all.
More soon.
ALT It’s a deeply bittersweet, heartbreaking and mixed outcome. We will not stop the fight and support, there are still battles to be won. Free The Manchester 10. Free them all. More soon.