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@NzubeNlebedim

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3 months

I’m delighted to unveil the cover of my debut book coming out this April from @AbibimanPub UK. “At Night Men Take the Lonely Way Back Home” is a collection of deeply personal essays in which I contemplate time, memory and roads. I’m proud to have the world read this soon ❤️

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@NzubeNlebedim

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I’m a writer. Of course I talk to myself.

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African Literature is beautiful 😍

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11 months

This is definitely one of the most underrated classics of Nigerian Literature. There should be renewed, critical conversations about the beauty this book is.

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2 years

2023 is going to be a groundbreaking year for African literature.

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7 months

How old were you when you first read “Things Fall Apart”?

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@NzubeNlebedim

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8 months

My first book, a memoir/collection of personal nonfictional essays, which should be published next year in the US, is about roads and all I’ve seen. I can’t wait for you all to read it when it comes out🍾❤️

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1 year

With the way things are going, if Nigerian writers in Nigeria and the Nigerian Diaspora do not take bold steps to correct things, what we know as Nigerian Literature might soon become Nigerian-American Literature.

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As writers, we usually don’t know how easier writing can be when there’s a structure in place to help. Fully-funded art programs, access to editors, agents, etc, etc. Shoutout to all writers creating alone despite the absence of every form of support. May things get better.

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@NzubeNlebedim

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1 year

Book contract successfully signed, y’all. Come celebrate with me🧘‍♂️

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@NzubeNlebedim

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7 months

2023 was a groundbreaking year for African literature. 2024 will be better. Things are looking great already❤️

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@NzubeNlebedim

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2 months

It’s my first full book, guys. It’s history being recorded for me. It’s a personal milestone. Seeing this video sent chills down my body. I can’t wait to caress this baby. It’s been a long time coming. God did it. Friends, send in your cakes and prayers for me❤️

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@NzubeNlebedim

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2 months

Because I now can… Happy pub day to me. Welcome to the world, my okpara. Abi is this an Ada? 😌❤️🏃🏾‍♂️😇 #AtNightMenTakeTheLonelyWayBackHome

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@NzubeNlebedim

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8 months

No other African play beating this bad boy here🌚

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@NzubeNlebedim

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11 months

African Literature is indeed having an outstanding run this year. This time, it’s Nigerian Literature. Congratulations to our very own @ayobamiadebayo Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on making the prestigious @TheBookerPrizes long list 🦍

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@NzubeNlebedim

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Study. Study. Read everything that comes your way. Practise and learn the theory, history and dogma of your craft. It pays.

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11 months

Travel, writers, travel. Your best stories await you on the road.

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7 months

If you want to succeed as a writer in Nigeria, you need to read this today. Don’t say I didn’t do anything for you in 2023.

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@NzubeNlebedim

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2 years

Please retweet our submission flyer. Our next big contributor might be in your space. Thank you.

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5 months

🙌🏿🙌🏿

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Excited to be publishing ⁦ @NzubeNlebedim ⁩ in the UK. Pre-order link out soon. It’s a gorgeous work, I have to say.

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1 year

Your first book may not be your breakaway book. Your second may not be, either. You may never be an Adichie or an Achebe with great first books. Your great book may be your first. Your great book may be your last. In all, keep writing, and get better with each project.

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1 year

African literature is in beautiful hands.

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9 months

Me cooking efo riro for lunch this afternoon, and then I’m called that the Stockholm Committee has approved my Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023. I often dream of such open doors.

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1 year

Which was the better book?

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@NzubeNlebedim

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7 months

Happy Sunday, writers. Others can get theirs tomorrow morning ☀️👏🏼

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@NzubeNlebedim

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2 months

My baby, the young lady in red, left this world May 5th, 2005. She was seven. My book is a testament to the memories she purged in me, and the catharsis of eternity she left lingering in our souls. Chinaza, nne m, today, the world knows you lived. I’m grateful.

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4 months

We pay little attention to those wonderful African editors and writers running good magazines right here in Africa, and sustaining them from their pockets, while still doing school and family. All at the same time. Big shout out to everyone of you. You’re doing good. 🦅

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1 year

+1 👑

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2 months

When writing from a 3rd person all-seeing angle, rather than saying, “he heard nearby the rustling sound of the leaves,” it’s best to say “the leaves rustled nearby.” It’s usually a waste of time telling readers that the xters are sensing things. Just show us. We know it’s them.

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1 year

Submitting to literary journals is one of the best ways to improve as a writer. Write the “rubbish” you can, submit and wait for feedback. Do it again tomorrow and the next and never stop. Keep getting punched and keep riding. There’s a dose of character in every rejection.

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@NzubeNlebedim

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8 months

Submit for the 2023 Writivism Prizes.

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6 months

The writer The writing🫣

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@NzubeNlebedim

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3 months

Writers, take advantage.

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1 year

I got my first acceptance last week from a journal I admire very much, for an essay that means so much to me 💜 I deliberately targeted this personal essay to that journal, and I’m chuffed that it made the selection. I’ll be sharing more information on this in the coming days.😇

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@NzubeNlebedim

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2 years

A writer, by all means possible, before entering these thorny fields of writing and publication, above everything else, must find a studio and take proper author photos. You can’t be snapping anyhow with iTel 1359 na!

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@NzubeNlebedim

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2 years

We just pulled off a curatorial feat at @afrocritik titled “15 Emerging and Gifted Voices Amplifying African Literature Today.” The literary Dept. and I have been on this for weeks, and I’m excited about its publication today. Check this out and retweet.

15 Emerging and Gifted Voices Amplifying African Literature Today - Afrocritik

African literature has become well-appraised, receiving the embrace and recognition it is deserving of, in both the home-based and global literary scenes.

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11 months

Read a lot. Make love every single day with that one person. Take as much rests in between as you can. Write about it all. Repeat.

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People age 26+.. what is some advice you would give someone age 20-25?

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1 year

Writers are beautiful.

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5 months

My review of Ifeoma Chinwuba’s novel will be out on Brittle Paper next week. Stay awake❤️

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1 year

A man who writes well can cook better and love the greatest. Marry a writer today. 😇

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QUIT asking your author friends to send their books to you, or give you for free. That you’re pals with them doesn’t mean you should ask for free books. Buy your friends’ books. Support them. Go to the bookstore and buy. It’s the little efforts to get value that matters.

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2 years

You get rejected so long by a journal that you begin to read each line of what they publish, looking for what is missing in yours.

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8 months

North African literature may be the sparsest literature on the continent, but it’s definitely the coldest. Those guys spit 😂

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Active writers, like me, who own and run active literary magazines, journals or blogs are giving a half of themselves to the world, and many do not even see it.

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Literary Festivals are actually one of the most productive part of the creative process here in Africa. Meeting beautiful people you only see on Twitter, taking nice pictures, having lovely conversations, making networks, buying the newest books. A thrill! #AkeFestival2023

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1 year

Can your Odeluwa ever?

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Have you got a copy yet? Head to @Rovingheights if you’re in Lagos, and get some! It’s the book of the decade, really 😉

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8 months

Nothing has given me more satisfaction in all my years of living than writing. Writing has proven to be not just a means of survival, or escape, but also therapy. When I grieve, I write and heal. When I’m happy, I write. Even in dreaming, I write. In writing, I dream.

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1 year

I think the error young writers make is thinking their literary writing would feed them from the get-go. Dear writer, “mag writing,” or any at all, might never get to be self-sustaining. Get a job. Do a business. Don’t write for the money. Write for the sheer joy writing brings.

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@NzubeNlebedim

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3 months

In “At Night Men Take the Lonely Way Back Home,” I depict my coming to terms with the vagaries of time, and my chequered life as a young man living in Nigeria, West Africa. Preorder link is out now! Get copies from @Rovingheights , Nigeria. 🔗

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I came upon a new short story idea some days ago. Can’t wait to run away from writing it.

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A writer must learn how to embrace pain.

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8 months

I perceive a novel as more than a creative text. I see a novel in the light of being a textbook on craft. The author, then, should not be wholly fixated on the story, but also on style, the way the story is told, what skill it can give to the reader, how it can make us all write.

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6 months

Dear literary agents, are you going to accept my full manuscript in 2024, or am I locking your destiny? Choose wisely.

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2 months

How hard it is, to love someone trained only to survive.

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9 months

Writers often make notes of how they get their greatest inspirations or muses when they are in the bathroom. I just realized this morning that we fail each time to acknowledge the place of water.

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@NzubeNlebedim

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2 years

Your favorite Class Captain 🧑‍✈️

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2 years

Forget all they say, really; validation is important in this creative business. At some point, you just need to be told you have done it right, or that you’re doing things right. You just need to be told you’re good at what you do, and be rewarded for it.

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1 year

This essay came from a very deep, raw place. With each sentence I wrote, I felt myself heal from the many memories that plagued me. I’m still on the path to an ultimate purgation. Memories don’t heal.

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Music, Photographs, Nostalgia, and the Burdens of Memory | Nzube Nlebedim

Photographs and Memories For a long time as a child, whenever the night workmen plastered the walls on our street with the colourful posters of a recently deceased, announcing their burial date and…

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5 months

Met up with THE badass writer and photographer today. @amidatobi , thanks for being beautiful. Thanks for the most lovely, rich conversation ❤️

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3 months

Are you ready?

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2 years

The farther a writer goes, the shorter their bio become (?)

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2 months

In writing, we mourn our own passing.

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1 year

Dear new writer, in all doings, don’t get used to using pseudonyms for your published work. Decide on a name (best bet is your real name), and use it consistently, in a single order. Stop changing names everyday. “Pen Lord,” “Pen Princess,” “Ink Dame” will not help eventually o.

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1 year

My papa. The very first of his kind. A giant whose shoes no one can fill. A man whose jersey will be retired in the end. Happy 89th birthday, dear Professor Wole Soyinka. Words will never be enough. Thank you💐

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8 months

Forget pay now, has a lit mag ever edited your work so well you felt it grow in your hands? That feeling is matchless. You go back again to reading the work and noting how it could never have thrived so elsewhere. Editing is a major gift lit mags must be praised specially for.

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1 year

Happy birthday, @Lolwe_ 👏🏼

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1 year

Happy Sunday from this cold end of Lagos.😓

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2 years

In 2021, I lost three key jobs in 6 months. Started my debut novel project and finished the 93k-word manuscript in 2 months. Got a high-flying fourth job immediately after. I run a lit mag I founded 3 years ago. I’m writing and leading in my space. I’m living & loving this dream.

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6 months

Come 2024, through all its campaigns, programmes and events, @ShallowTales will be bringing fresh African authors to the foreground. We will also be collaborating with the very cream of the African literary industry. There’s a lot to unpack for us in 2024. We truly can’t wait❤️🎁

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Soon, I’d like to get up a group of five people once a year and teach all I’ve been able to gather in my small years running two literary journals simultaneously. My first teaching will definitely be about length. I’d love to teach again the concept of “length” in writing.

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1 year

You’re a writer and you don’t check your mails every five minutes? What did you say you are again?

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3 months

Thank you, Onyeka. I’m excited!❤️

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Delighted to share that I will be publishing ⁦ @NzubeNlebedim ⁩’s gorgeous collection of essays at Abibiman Publishing UK this month. Can’t wait to show you!

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1 year

Writers deserve closure. As much as it’s key to send acceptance mails, it’s doubly important to send rejection mails, too. The more personal, the better. The literary institution exists to feed the community, to help grow artists. Feedback is the least respectful thing to do.

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6 months

Road trip. Day 13. I visited the prestigious University of Benin, Benin City. One thing about the campus is its neatness. The lawns are well cut. I think the road weariness is beginning to get to me. But we move 🦅

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If we are dating and you save my name on your phone as Nzube Nlebedim, we’ll go together to find that egbon adugbo you’re dating because it can’t be me.

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@NzubeNlebedim

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2 years

Today, I celebrate my first year as editor of Africa’s trendiest, most up-to-date, entertainment, media, art and culture agency, Afrocritik. I started this time last year. A year down, and it’s been a splendid ride. Cheers to more greatness!

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1 year

In my four years publishing and editing actively, I have learned many things, but one stands out. Many writers don’t exactly want to be published. What many writers seek is validation for their work. They only want to be told that they have done well, or they can do better.

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11 months

Congratulations to Abu Bakr Sadiq @bakronline on winning the 2023 Sillerman Poetry prize. 💫

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7 months

Simplicity and beauty in language use is actually the most complex endeavour a writer can ever undertake. It’s a tough job writing simple and potent prose. For your writing or speech to be simple yet elegant, you have a gift only a few people have. I deeply respect such writers.

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Pa and Pa. Two men I respect greatly. I think I could just caption this photo as Papa❤️

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2 years

Writing pays.

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5 months

Send in your best🙌🏿

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Shoutout to all young people, under 30, doing sweet things in the African literary industry. 💎

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The fact that you can write at all — and write well enough — is enough metric for literary success.

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Writers: How will you know you’ve “made it?”

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There are certain levels of skill in the writing game which only age-borne experience gives you. There are some styles and intensity of thought you wouldn’t have been able to understand could work ten years ago in you writing game. Truth is, old wine gets better.

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2 years

How should a man feel on his birthday? Well, I feel grateful today.💖💃🎊

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1 year

For my birthday this year, I’d love to read and give free, comprehensive editorial comments to the first 20 writers who will email me with an under-2000-word work of theirs in the prose genre. DM me for my personal mail if interested!

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It’ll be truly great if we learn to see other people’s life successes as theirs, and not ours. She got into Harvard at 24 and you’re still sitting JAMB at 28, that’s fine. It’s their path, not yours. Your destiny is different, even if you don’t think you have one. You do.

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I’m very excited to announce that I will be serving (again) as a mentor for this year’s Sprinng @SprinngLM Writing Fellowship. Visit to learn more and apply by April 15! #2024SprinngMentor

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Give yourself big credit. You survived Nigeria in 2023. You did what you loved doing, and you scored points in it. No one is allowed to make you feel you didn’t do enough. You woke up everyday in Nigeria to try again. That’s enough, abeg. You’ve done well. Go again.

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11 months

A great day to read this book again.

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2 years

One MAJOR error I’ve seen in many writings of creative non fiction (CNF) is the creative part of it. Writers make the mistake of writing bare stories, biographical notes, as they are, and presenting them to editors as CNF. Well, this might help:

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1 year

Woke up proud of this essay again.

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2 years

As you grow older in the writing game, taking good rests become an unsaid rule, especially when there’s a writer’s block. OGs don’t beat themselves up. They grab a pillow and sleep. They go to the gym, take a run, read books. Dem never born the papa of the block make him no melt.

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1 year

My personal essay is live this morning on the amazing @brittlepaper . Here, I share, for the first time, some details about the death of my baby sister, and some other stories. I hope you enjoy this as much as I didn’t writing it.

A Reflection in Three Paths | Nzube Nlebedim | Essay

the shape of fear There is a picture in my head I have never been able to ascertain its truth. Did it happen? Had it been only a figment of my imagination, a product of a brewing creative mind? For...

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7 months

How’s your Sunday looking like?

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3 months

When I e-mailed them for blurbs, I was unsure. Would they like the book or just shelve my request? Surprisingly, I got more than blurbs. I got kind reviews from these icons. I’d never been so honoured. Lifelong thanks to Profs @ainehiedoro , @UcheUmezurike , and @ikhide 🙏🏿🦅

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7 months

I’ve never published any issue with contributors’ names as difficult to pronounce as this one😂😂

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6 months

Still wondering what look I should use for this book cover. Beard or clean? 🤔

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