My new essay 'Usain Bolting to Sylt Island' has just been published

✨ THIS WEEK IN PHR✨
- Benjamin Sullivan's review of 'The World Has Need of You: Poems for Connection'
- 'The Chase,' a Field Notes piece by Maximus
- Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy's poem, 'I'm Tired of Writing Diaspora Poems'

Read now at porterhousereview.org

Holloway is not hollow. Rice bought rice, but we cooked and ate the Rice #Texasstate

Nkiacha Atemnkeng so poignantly pointed out the contrasting managerial approaches that left Camair successful during Ahidjo's reign and a colossal failure post-Ahidjo.

Needless to say, the phoenix rose and is once again burning steadily.

#Burnaboy performing at the #ChampionsLeagueFinal and donning his gold chain on Thierry Henry postgame is everything

The baddest mother****** on the planet 😂

Prince Nico Mbarga’s “Sweet Mother” has sold more copies than “Macarena.”

And even The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand”.

But chances are, especially if you’re not Nigerian, you’ve never heard of him.

Until now.

His rollercoaster-of-a-life story:

So, I moderated the virtual book launch of the English translation of Hemley Boum's novel, 'Les jours viennent et passent' - Days Come and Go. Watch me in conversation with the author and the translator Nchanji Njamnsi right here Two Lines Press
Center for the Art of Translation youtu.be/T34CNIN9Qrk

None of us is safe if one of us is unsafe. #MartinezZogo

Join the Alliance Française de Seattle in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Co. , for an online discussion with Hemley Boum, who will discuss Days Come and Go, trans. by Nchanji Njamnsi . Nkiacha Atemnkeng will moderate this virtual interview

afseattle.org/community/even…

'Trevor Noah once said comedy is what he uses to process the world, that it is therapy for him, even when his experiences are painful.'

—From Nkiacha Atemnkeng's review of Trevor Noah’s Loud and Clear Tour

porterhousereview.org/articles/schad…

The #2022worldcup couldn't have produced a better final, the best ever final #LionelMessi𓃵 couldn't have written a better script to his international football career; right at the end. And no one has ever lit up a World Cup final better than #Kylian_Mbappe

Mop go kill we. Sah! We di still continue for play da ball with wa mop hein

Cameroon 1 - Brasil 0. So, yes, we've won the #WorldCup2022 - by beating the number one ranked team in the world lol

Kitchen disasters, rude relatives, guests who are late, Switzerland walloping Cameroon at the #FIFAWorldCupQatar2022 , failed pies, scorched mashed potatoes, not enough wine — it’s fine. These things happen. Allow them to happen #HappyThanksgiving2022

In Nigeria, (Aké), one girl I didn't know called me a Yoruba demon.

The beauty of instantly recognizing the sample in Burna Boy's 'Last last' from that magical guitar chord and background vocal when you first heard it, without trying to google it.

I'll be moderating the virtual US book launch/chat of the English translation (Days Come and Go) of the novel 'Les jours viennent et passent' by Cameroonian writer, Hemley Boum and her translator Nchanji Njamnsi in a few hours. Free registration details here

german translation of my story ‘fusion’ looking so fine, i literally don’t understand!