2020 truly is the year of weird: good or bad, everything feels strange. I'm grateful for the sense of normalcy #EyalaReads brings on the Sundays I'm able to curate it, and for you for reading with me. Enjoy this week's roundup of my fav reads on #Africa #WomensRights & #Feminism!
If you read only one thing this week, this is the one. Jesmyn Ward wrote her heart out in @VanityFair and I felt everything: the grief, the fatigue, the anger, the hope. Read this, it is magnificent.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates did a spectacular job as a guest-editor of The Great Fire, @VanityFair's September issue, about race relations and #racism in the US. I loved the interview Angela Davis gave @ava. Great insights for us African feminists, too.
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Sometimes the universe chooses to speak to you through someone else. That's how I feel as I read the lessons #Afrifem sister Awino Okech generously shared with us. Love, life, work... it's all in there. Read it. Bookmark it. Read it again.
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A Guinean activist in #Morocco, @Boubawanndiallo is a quiet hero. He gives a dignified burial to migrants who drown as they try to cross to Europe & he keeps their families informed. Beautifully profiled by @AidaAlami, one of Africa's best journalists.
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This, from our very own @OhTimehin: "The truth is, the pain of women and girls — including the kind of pain caused by sexual violence — simply isn’t a big deal in #Nigeria. If anything, generalized female pain is a fundamental aspect of our social order."
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Brilliant interview of my sister @StephKimou who got so pissed off after a few years in #globaldev that she decided to set up @PopWorksAfrica & do things her way. Nice editing by @RakshaVasudevanthat: Steph sounds exactly the way she does in person.
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Not so shameless plug: If you missed my interview with @StephKimou on Eyala, here's the link. It was a beautiful exploration of her professional and personal motivations to challenge racism in the international development sector.
bit.ly/2GDN7Lf #EyalaReads.
While I'm plugging Eyala interviews: I just read again the latest interview I published, and eish! Kenyan #feminist human rights lawyer @kaviemakau was just spitting fire and wisdom faster than I could process them. I learned a lot from her final advice.
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I'll close with some fiction, for a change. I don't know how to describe Good Boy, the short story @eloosunde wrote and published in @parisreview. So layered. So beautiful. So powerful. I want to write like this when I grow up. Just read it.
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That's it for today, my friends. Enjoy your readings; please share and use #EyalaReads so I know what you think. Have a great day, and may the new month treat you well. It's time for 2020 to behave.
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