IB @_therealib

Creative, Poet & Spoken Word Artist. ‘24 Winner @augursociety Micro-Fiction Contest, ‘24 Winner @PoetryJourn Prize, ‘23 Winner @phpoetryfest Poetry AOTY therealib.com Lost Joined November 2012

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Praise Osawaru @wordsmithpraise

2 days ago

Community matters!!!

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IB @_therealib

3 days ago

“There’s us who lie awake every night wondering of how close we are to success” — Brian Ainamaani

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Adedayo Agarau @adedayo_agarau

6 days ago

slowly, surely. Thank you everyone. 🥹

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IB @_therealib

5 days ago

We hide a lot more than we show

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6 days ago

I’ve always admired the amazing work @Lolwe_ does for writers like me. This is 💔

Lolwe @Lolwe_

a week ago

I’ve always admired the amazing work @Lolwe_ does for writers like me. This is 💔

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My dad calls to check up on me. Barely two minutes into our conversation my mum hijacks his phone, spoke for like twenty minutes, then hands the phone over to her husband to do the closing verbiage. Bullying much. 😂

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IB @_therealib

a week ago

Show me everything we built so I can tear it all down

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Writers Project Gh @writersPG

a week ago

OPEN CALL Writing Laboratories: Cycle 1 littoral zone[s], in collaboration with FCA-Ghana, invites applications for the first cycle of its writing laboratories, a program dedicated to rigorous reading, experimental practices, and collaborative approaches to writing.

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IB @_therealib

a week ago

A loss we have to quickly move on from. Long season ahead.

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Augur Society | Fund our SFF press on Kickstarter! @augursociety

a week ago

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE! 💫 Check out... 🤖 A disaster relief delivery robot 🧟 Touring a mall in a zombie apocalypse ⭐️ A love letter from a star & plenty more! & you can read two FREE pieces on our site NOW! ⬇️ augursociety.org/augur-issue-8-… 🧵

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IB @_therealib

2 weeks ago

Glad it’s finally weekend 🥱

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2 weeks ago

Slaves are people who lack the vision of a promise land

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2 weeks ago

At some point all the words won’t matter anymore

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2 weeks ago

Seasons change, You remain the same.

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2 weeks ago

Performative intelligence 👎🏾

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Typical African @Joe__Bassey

2 weeks ago

This is what a family compound in Mali 🇲🇱 looks like.

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IB @_therealib

2 weeks ago

I miss those Sunday mornings when pops played worship songs from his cassette player as the aroma of my mother’s stew danced through the house. In retrospect, this ritual was consecration. The voice of Sunny Okosun still echoes from yesteryears. Younger days. Simpler times.

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IB @_therealib

2 weeks ago

‘being confident of this very thing, that He who hath begun a good work in me…’

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Mádé Kuti @madeakuti

3 weeks ago

When I saw this post, it didn’t make me angry, I just felt pity for this person. Every one of our great African leaders believed in the importance of African unity because they had faith in the potential of our people to rise intellectually above the structures and limits set…

Chefchenko! ☀️☀️ @AdemolaOgudu

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David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin

3 weeks ago

There is a quote from Joshua Maponga that lives rent-free inside my head: "Everytime you as an African pretend to be who you are not, you deprive the world of the opportunity to experience your greatness."