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I love how calm it is over here.

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

THE CHILDREN OF SOWETO by Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane (1982) "It was a chilly Wednesday morning in the middle of June. […] Looking back in time, we can usually find the exact moment when a new epoch began, when it happened it felt just like any other day. Such was that fateful morning in the middle of June. […] We came out demonstrating on a cold, wintry morning. But the authorities wouldn't have it. They set police dogs on us. They panel-beat us with batons. They sprayed us with teargas. They came out shooting. Army tanks roared down the streets like angry hippos. The contest was too uneven. We retreated in panic, leaving the ground strewn with casualties from both sides. We couldn't match them stone to bullet." This important historical novel was first published in 1982 and later banned by the apartheid regime. It tells, with piercing authenticity, the story of the 1976 Soweto uprising. Mzamane has created a set of characters whose courage, humour, and imperfections fill the pages of this book and carry the reader forward on the rising tide of resistance.

A vaguely (not so) random selection of books beloved, enjoyed, or absolutely bowled over by across the decades and in the various incarnations of the #LatelmperialLibrary.

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#SowetoDay #16June1976

"Bluesky is dead."

Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

GIFTS by Nuruddin Farah (1993) In this beguiling story of a Somali family and the struggles of its powerful matriarch to keep it whole, Nuruddin Farah delves into the ways people—families, communities, countries—are bound together by what they are willing to give and what they choose to receive. Duniya is raising her twins as a single mother and working long hours as a nurse at a Mogadiscio hospital, certain she can do just fine without anyone's help. But the fragile self-sufficiency of her world has been rocked by her daughter's latest act of rebellion: bringing home a mysterious foundling infant. And when Duniya impulsively accepts the favour of a ride to work from a charming, wealthy, and romantically interested family friend, she opens up a part of herself that she closed off long ago. Instantly, her whole life is turned upside down. Meanwhile, the hospital where Duniya works is under siege by a desperate population that has been ravaged by war, drought, disease, and famine. Somalia has been invaded by relief organisations from America and Europe, but many Somalis chafe at being burdened with debts they can never hope to repay, and at having to accept tainted goods for which they're obliged to show gratitude. They, like Duniya, however, are being forced to reexamine old choices and to make new ones that reveal what they truly care about. With lyrical and luxuriant prose, Farah weaves a spellbinding tapestry of dreams, memories, family lore, folktales, and journalistic accounts. A master of mingling the intensely personal with the intently political, he explores how histories—global, familial, personal—are molded from the stories we tell and retell. In Farah's novel, Duniya's tale unfolds against the backdrop of Somalia's struggles such that it becomes emblematic of an entire people.

A vaguely (not so) random selection of books beloved, enjoyed, or absolutely bowled over by across the decades and in the various incarnations of the #LatelmperialLibrary.

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#AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Are we really starting all over again? 😅

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I would like legislation passed to make canceling a service the same process as adding one. It took me 3mins to create an account and now I’m the phone 15mins with 3 different to cancel the service.
STOP ASKING ME WHY!
EYE DONT WANT THE SERVICE!!

42 YEARS AGO TODAY on April 30, 1983, "Beat It" by Michael Jackson reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

OOOOOOOOH! nelly iiiiiiiiii love you

nelly ft kelly rowland - dilemma

When you decide to hang out with your coworkers after work for the first time

If he make you feel like a million dollar bill

It’s Black History Month! MAKE SOME MFN NOISE! 🗣️

she made this song a HIT 💋

Man, to be BLACK is one of the biggest blessings. I truly would not trade this for anything else in the world.

This was elite 👌🏽🔥

A new fire has erupted in Hollywood Hills, California.

If you listen to tiktoks on full volume in public you deserve to be shunned from the public

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Yaaassss!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

It explains so much 😂😂😂😂

5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

Every time I read a retrospective on COVID I remember the early days, when people published commentaries about the 1918 flu pandemic, how it was SO WEIRD that that whole thing just got memory-holed, how did that happen so many people died?

Covid now has >20 million. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Tshisa! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Who they came to see??? #BeyonceBowl

Beyoncé’s NFL halftime show setlist:

16 CARRIAGES
BLACKBIIRD (with Tiera Kennedy, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer and Reyna Robert)
YA YA
MY HOUSE
SPAGHETTII & RIIVERDANCE & SWEET HONEY BUCKIIN’ (with Shaboozey)
LEVII’S JEANS (with Post Malone)
JOLENE
TEXAS HOLD ‘EM