Can't wait to see this ❤️

‘The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do’ — Toni Morrison

BOOK COVER REVEAL

Here is my grandfather and I, circa 1994, in Lagos, Nigeria at my naming ceremony! ❤️

I’m so honoured that this is the book cover for CEREMONY FOR THE NAMELESS, forthcoming from Penguin Books UK 7th November 2024

PRE ORDER here 🤍: penguin.co.uk/authors/294370…

Sad to hear that 🇯🇲Candice Carty-Williams🇯🇲’s wonderful Champion isn’t returning for a second series but she ties up the loose ends on this ace IG post.

Maybe go watch the first (and sadly only) season before reading tho - it’s great!

instagram.com/p/C4IpxumoPBS/…

Because I wanted to see it.

“He’s not racist, he does a lot of business in Jamaica”

You know who else did business in Jamaica a few hundred years ago?

“It’s not as good as her dying”.
It’s NOT as GOOD as her DYING

again I ask…

if explicitly calling out a hate for the entire race and gender of a person is not gender or race-based, what is??? how much more racist and sexist does a person need to be?

they’re lying through their teeth.

I love Issa Rae so much lmao #Oscars

Weirdly none of the men I’ve mothered have wished me a Happy Mother’s Day?

So SHIFTERS Bush Theatre is sold out. Y'ALL DID THAT. The Lovers. The Dreamers. The Romantics. And our BLACK PEOPLE. They stay telling us we're not commercially viable. We stay proving them wrong. Making the work. And showing up. Thank you. I love us 🫶🏾

The London bourouh of Lewisham has it first black woman mayor 🎉

The Simplicity of this Photo, was *Of Service* to The Muse/Not Me. And, STILL Serves... Humility & Gratitude to God. For The Gift, of Song🎼 Around, the world🌎🎈Auntie, Loves You

Sending love to Palestine women, Sudanese women, Congolese women, Haitian women, Northern Nigerian women, and every woman who has to survive living in a war-torn area ❤️

An honour to have created + showrun Champion but I didn’t have a second series in the chamber! Too many plates spinning and not enough time. Grateful to all who watched + thank you to the cast + crew + BBC One + Netflix #WinnersOnly4eva 🏆

just finished reading ‘Queenie’ by 🇯🇲Candice Carty-Williams🇯🇲 and created this playlist — inspired mostly by the chapters towards and at the ending of the book — to mark the moment:

open.spotify.com/playlist/08odX…

#QueerGhanaianLivesMatter