Kenechi Uzor

✨ Our CEO @kenechiuzor.bsky.social is representing Iskanchi Press at the New York Black & African Literature Festival!

Intentional conversations with literary greats like Kwame Dawes are shaping the future of African storytelling in real time.

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Title and author of burned, still-rolled scroll decoded after nearly 2,000 years | CNN Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of the text nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in the Mount Vesuvius erup...

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The Impossible Contradictions of Mark Twain Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

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What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.

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The Case Against Travel It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best.

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Writing Like a Mountain | Nathaniel Rich If forced to distill the modern environmental movement to a single credo, one would be hard-pressed to improve on “Think like a mountain.” The phrase, now

“In Charles Ferdinand Ramuz’s novels, mountains menace.” —Nathaniel Rich

Ideas ‘of pure genius’ – how astronomers have measured the Universe across history | Aeon Videos An awe-inspiring look at how scientific knowledge builds upon itself gradually – one ingenious measurement at a time

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Why my campaign to protest kidnapping in Nigeria failed | Aeon Essays After a murderous kidnapping in Nigeria, I launched a campaign to put a stop to the abductions. Why did no one listen?

Why my campaign to protest kidnapping in Nigeria failed – aeon.co/essays/why-m... via @aeonmag

Katherine Rundell · Consider the Hare ‘The cat of the wood,’ Heaney calls them. ‘The stag of the cabbages.’ If there is magic in this world, some part...

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West Point graduate becomes first woman to complete Army Ranger competition First Lt. Gabrielle White, a 25-year-old West Point graduate, became the first female ranger ever to compete in the arduous three-day, 30-event marathon.

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National Library Outreach Day National Library Outreach Day (formally National Bookmobile Day) celebrates library outreach and the dedicated library professionals who are meeting their patrons where they are.

National Library Outreach Day is an opportunity for library advocates to make their support known through thanking library staff, writing a letter or e-mail to their libraries, or voicing their support to community leaders.

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⏳ Time is running out! ⏳

The Iskanchi Book Prize closes April 21, 2025! Got a bold, boundary-pushing African story? Fiction, nonfiction, poetry—we want it! Don’t miss your chance to get published.

Submit now: www.iskanchi.com/iskanchi-boo...

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Some books entertain.
This one awakens.

An anthology of voices—raw, lyrical, unafraid.
It moves through light and dark, love and loss, beginnings and endings. If you read one book that challenges what writing can do—make it this.

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Blake Morrison · Swagger for Survival: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s ‘Theft’ Beyond Gurnah’s postcolonial perspective is an understanding of the trauma all people suffer when they’re sundered...

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How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?

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Yay! My #translation of this award-winning book by Aminta Dupuis is now available for pre-order from @iskanchipress.bsky.social

It is a declaration of love for #Africa, celebrating the diverse human and unique spiritual treasures of this often misrepresented continent.

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What if your consciousness never died—even after your body turned to dust?

Barzakh: The Land In Between is a mind-bending fusion of science fiction, mysticism, and Mauritanian culture.

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"Children of Blood and Bone" meets "The Gods Are Not to Blame." ✨

The Civilization is a YA fantasy novel with an original blend of African-inspired mysticism and adventure. An absolutely riveting read.

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#FantasyReads #Mythology #ComingOfAge

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

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Rilke and the art of listening as a way to shape the cosmos | Aeon Essays It is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine

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The War for Your Attention Chris Hayes explains how bad it’s really gotten.

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‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis? Beset by colonial controversy, difficult finances and the discovery of a thief on the inside, Britain’s most visited museum is in deep trouble. Can it restore its reputation?

‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis? www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Why Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint Won’t Require Blurbs Anymore In a decision some might call “stunning” or a “tour-de-force,” new S&S publisher Sean Manning has decided to no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books. Here’s why.

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Opinion: The disappearance of literary men should worry everyone Opinion: The disappearance of literary men should worry everyone

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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy www.openculture.com/2024/11/bert...

Embroidered text on white background in old fashioned font that says ‘Thou shalt not judge, because thou has fucked up in the past also.’

Words To Live By Number 141

The Best Jokes of 2024 A suggestive tennis match, a manic “Hot Ones” interview, and other amusing moments in an often surreal year.

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City of Night Birds It started to rain later that night. Vera Igorevna made us promise to go to bed immediately so we could be fresh for the first day of the competition. We nodded as one, but five minutes later Nina …

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Really just here to read and share links to #greatreads, but it looks like the doom and gloom also found us here

Image of the book cover for AfroSFv3. Geometric and intricate circuitry background. Title in large letters with a space scene inside them. Text of the contributing authors and editor: T. L. Huchu Cristy Zinn Mandisi Nkomo Biram Mboob Wole Talabi Stephen Embleton Masimba Musodza Dilman Dila Mazi Nwonwu Andrew C. Dakalira Mame Bougouma Diene Edited by Ivor W. Hartmann

StoryTime short story legends #2

"Drift Flux' Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social

AfroSFv3

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"In space, no one can hear your ship explode.
But they can watch.
Orshio Akume, priest-pilot of the Igodo, sat silently in the pilot module of the control deck..."

#AfricanSFF