Writer | Debut novel THIS KIND OF TROUBLE forthcoming with @TinyRepBooks @McClellandBooks @MerkyBooks @penguinrandom August 2025 | Rep: @aemalecha
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What a dream.
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In this essay for @ElectricLit I bring together (match-make, really) a few of the African novelists I admire and pair them with writers of the African-Atlantic inheritance who have influenced my work.
So many thanks to the editors for having me. electricliterature.com/7-afr…
It took me years to understand that Aunt Edwina’s stories were born out of her own longing for home, that her fabulous encounters with goats and turtles were her own way of constructing an elsewhere.
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"Can internationalism be a means to solidarity and mutual exchange between groups rather than top-down delivery of “palliative” aid to “desperate people”?"
.@MargotTudor shares thoughts on the future of international aid in the wake of the dismantling of USAID africasacountry.com/2025/03/…
"There's something haunting but intriguing about this family" is exactly the feeling I want readers to enter with. Thank you so much for this mention @sashsolomon
A notable mention goes to @tochi5's debut 'This Kind of Trouble' a 5⭐️ read on @NetGalley thanks to @TinyRepBooks. Charting a Nigerian's family's experiences in and through colonialism, there's something haunting, but intriguing about this family. Releasing in August 2025 ✨ ✨
Yaay! and now I finally get to share the gorgeous cover for the UK edition of THIS KIND OF TROUBLE! So much thanks to the wonderful team at @MerkyBooks and to exceptional agents Allison Malecha and Jane Finigan. Let’s go August!! 🥹✨🙌🏾🎊
“If you wanted to understand complex questions in philosophy, was hanging out with a single philosopher the right idea?
An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting newyorker.com/culture/the-we…
I am rarely wise and not often kind, but what I do have is a voice behind me saying, “this is the way, walk in it.”
“But let us think together—let us probe, together, the contours of our own lives, with its endless private anguish, and maybe, just maybe, we can agree in a way we have not agreed on politics, or equality, or freedom.”
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“One thing I am rediscovering is this thing called “relationships.” Normal relationships between myself and some other person. One-on-one. This person may be the friend of my friend, but it is not a tripartite thing. Just me and you.” Ernest Ogunyemi
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I'm thrilled to share that @AppleBooks has selected my debut novel, THE EDGE OF WATER, as one of the #BestBooks of February! Thank you to the editors. You can check it out here:
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Happy publication day to the wonderful and wise @ogracebankole whose novel is already giving me much joy and light.
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Coming soon! MFA alum Tochi Eze's beautiful novel.
What wonderful and terrifying honor to be mentioned in the hallowed company of my teachers. Thank you so much @WritingWorkshps #BlackHistoryMonth
What wonderful and terrifying honor to be mentioned in the hallowed company of my teachers. Thank you so much @WritingWorkshps #BlackHistoryMonth
This Black History Month, we're celebrating Black authors throughout time. Check out these books from the past, present, and future!
Pictured: Ralph Ellison INVISIBLE MAN
Tracey Livesay THE DUCHESS EFFECT
@tochi5 THIS KIND OF TROUBLE (August 2025)
“But never enforce wisdom on a poem, don’t move crazy” open.substack.com/pub/ernest…
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Reviewing over 50 PhD thesis introductions taught me:
Students often overthink simple structures.
The most effective theses are surprisingly straightforward.
Students obsess over citations and background...
While missing what their readers need most.
ALT A mindmap outlining the introduction chapter of your thesis.