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Jun 6, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Wow, this #PublishingPaidMe hashtag! These tweets have me going 😳👀🤯
Anyway, major thanks to all the authors sharing. You guys have been very brave. And big chops to @TochiTrueStory & @ElleOnWords for sparking this much-needed discourse.
These #PublishingPaidMe stats now make this 1% even wilder.

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Sep 25, 2020
I once asked my mother what her family did during the Nigerian Civil War. She said her father was jobhunting.

Jobhunting.

TV gives us the idea that chaos rules when the worst things happen. But in truth, more people than not will try to retain a semblance of normalcy.
Ergo, if you believe your daily schedule will shift radically when things come crashing down, you'll be wrong.

When Victoria Island, Lagos floods as it does yearly, some residents put their work clothes in a backpack, take a canoe to work, and dress up in the restrooms.
Remember this when things are slowly crashing around you, but because no one declares open season on you in the streets, or ash isn't perpetually falling from the sky, it feels like things haven't gone that far yet.

They have, and the right time to act like they have is now.
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Sep 15, 2020
Happy Book Release Day to fellow authors with books out today!

NEVER LOOK BACK by @lilliamr. Orpheus & Eurydice, but if they were Afro-Latinx kids in the Bronx.
EACH OF US A DESERT by @MarkDoesStuff. "A powerful fantasy novel about finding home and falling in love amidst the dangers of a desert where stories come to life."
LEGENDBORN by @tracydeonn. Meet Bree: Black girl magic, literally. Infiltrates secret society of "Legendborn" monster slayers to find the truth about her mother, despite some dude called "Merlin" trying to wipe her memory--and failing.
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Sep 10, 2020
Remember one of those secret projects I said I’m involved in? Well, @UNICEF + @TheLancet & @FT Commission are partnering on @GHFutures2030 to explore how technology is shaping health and wellbeing for future generations.

And I’m working with them to help envision this. Image
We’re asking young people to imagine their own health futures. We want to know what mental health, healthcare & medicine, with artificial intelligence & frontier technologies, could look like in 2045. Youth voices matter, and we need them to be heard by world leaders at #UN75. Image
If you’re young (or have youngsters around you—looking at you, teachers!), what’s the biggest obstacle to your health? Climate change? Politics? Education? Join the conversation with the #MyFutureMyHealth hashtag. Go wild: Robot nurses! Wearable monitors! Flying Ambulances! Image
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Sep 1, 2020
🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉

I'm teaching this virtual class at @piper_center for the next 3 weeks, and a silent benefactor & I are sponsoring TWO SCHOLARSHIPS for BIPOC writers to attend.

Open to writers anywhere in the world. See details in thread!

piper.asu.edu/classes/suyi-d… Image
First, what the workshop is about: Every Monday for 3 weeks, I'll explain my understanding of revision, and actionable practices I use to revise my work (both long and short). Then we'll identify which may work for you and try those on your work.

Dope, right? Get in, then!
To apply for these scholarships: Email the following to ask@suyidavies.com:

1. one-page cover letter (about 3 paragraphs explaining your writing path, publications & aims for this class)
2. first page of your current WIP (novel, short story, whatever).

Deadline: Thu Sept 3.
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Aug 25, 2020
Captain Africa was the first superhero comic I read as a child that had someone like me in it, so it’s an honour that @tordotcom let me write about its rise, fall & impact on today’s #ownvoices superheroes from the continent. tor.com/2020/08/24/the…
Some stuff that didn’t make it into the piece:

Andy Akman, the Ghanaian creator of this comic, has gone AWOL since the comic’s disappearance. As in, absolutely no trace. Search for “Andy Akman” and every result you’ll find is people like me asking, “Where is Andy Akman?” 🤷🏾‍♂️
Also, though the piece focuses heavily on comics in English-speaking African (interspersed with various indigenous languages), comics also thrived on the continent in French, Portuguese and Afrikaans-speaking countries during the same period. Truly a treasure trove.
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Aug 24, 2020
It's no secret I'm no fan of the police--any police, anywhere. Interacting with the Nigerian police teaches you early on that there's a stark difference between "policing" and "security," and these are two concepts I realise most folks seem to confuse.
A lot of policing discourse in the global sphere is usually discussed within the context of American policing and its roots in slavery. But the US police is not the only one to evolve from imperial-capitalist interests, driven by use of force.

The Nigerian police did too.
Here's the history of the NPF:
1820: Commissioner general raises force in the East
1879: Armed Hausa constabulary in the North
1888: Royal Niger Company constabulary
1894: Niger Coast constabulary, Calabar

What these constabularies have in common? Colonial interests.
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