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Porsche 962C

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Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls - especially blondes - and wondering who his father is. When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa. Sure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed 'Andy Africa' soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Eileen.

But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims, despite his mother's denials, to be Andy's father, and the gathering of an anti-Christian mob is headed for the church - both set to shake the foundations of everything Andy knows and loves. The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa announces a dazzling, distinctive, new literary voice.

Profound, exhilarating and highly original, this tragicomic novel is a stunning exploration of the contemporary African 'condition', the relentless infiltration of Western culture and, most of all, the ordinary but impossible challenges of coming of age in a turbulent world.

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Book Digest: Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Adil Babikir, Stephen Buoro, Kweku Abimbola

We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Adil Babikir, Stephen Buoro, and Kweku Abimbola. Song and Dread by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek Publisher: Talon BooksDate: March 15, 2023Genre: PoetryLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Click here. Otoniya J. Okot Bitek Otoniya J. Okot Bitek Otoniya J. Okot Bitek is a poet and scholar. Her…

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The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa

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Andrew Aziza is an unusually smart fifteen-year-old in Kontagora, Nigeria. He lives with his fiercely protective mother, Gloria, and fantasizes obsessively about white girls-especially blondes. When he’s not in church, at school, or hanging about town with his droogs wishing to become one of “Africa’s first superheroes,” he’s contemplating the larger questions with his teacher Zahrah and his…

[kummatty]

to read in january;

the five sorrowful mysteries of andy africa, stephen buoro

maroon nation: a history of revolutionary haiti, johnhenry gonzalez

enter ghost, isabella hammad

the ministry for the future, kim stanley robinson

necropolitics, achille mbembe

discourse on colonialism, aimé césaire

the last two were high up on my winter break reading list but I didn't get to them, ministry for the future is on my radar (and on hold at the library) but I don't mind if it slips into feb, this month ill get an idea of how much I can realisticaly read for myself during the semester

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Read-Alike Friday: The History of a Difficult Child by Mihret Sibhat

The History of a Difficult Child by Mihret Sibhat

Wisecracking, inquisitive, and bombastic, Selam Asmelash is the youngest child in her large, boisterous family. Even before she is born, she has a wry, bewitching omniscience that animates life in her Small Town in southwestern Ethiopia in the 1980s. Selam and her father listen to the radio in secret as the socialist military junta that recently overthrew the government seizes properties and wages civil war in the North. The Asmelashes, once an enterprising, land-owning family, are ostracized under the new regime. In the Small Town where they live, nosy women convene around coffee ceremonies multiple times a day, the gossip spreading like wildfire.

As Selam’s mother, the powerful and relentlessly dignified Degitu, grows ill, she embraces a persecuted, Pentecostal God and insists her family convert alongside her. The Asmelashes stand solidly in opposition to the times, and Selam grows up seeking revenge on despotic comrades, neighborhood bullies, and a ruthless God. Wise beyond her years yet thoroughly naive, she contends with an inner fury, a profound sadness, and a throbbing, unstoppable pursuit of education, freedom, and love.

Patience is a Subtle Thief by Abi Ishola-Ayodeji

For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs. Patience lives a sheltered life within the secure walls of the family's mansion in Ibadan, but finds no comfort from her distant father and stepmother Modupe. Her only ally is her younger sister, yet even Margaret's love and support cannot overcome Patience's insecurity and uncertainty.

More than anything, Patience wants to know why her father and uncle banished her mother from their compound years ago--and whether her mother is even alive. Determined to discover the truth, Patience embarks on a desperate search to find her mother. Answers begin to surface when she moves to Lagos for university and unexpectedly reconnects with her cousin Kash.

Kash and his friend Emeka are petty thieves with an opportunity to make a big score. To pull it off they need help--and enlist Patience and Emeka's straight-arrow brother, Chike, to become partners in their scheme. The thieves' plan is to quit after this job. But unforeseen events lead to unexpected consequences--and demand a price from Patience that may be too steep to pay.

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro

Andrew Aziza is a fifteen-year-old boy living in Kontagora in Northern Nigeria. He lives with his secretive mother, Gloria, and spends his days about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca. He's contemplating the larger questions with his teacher Zahrah and his equally brilliant friend Fatima, a Hausa-Fulani girl who clearly has feelings for him. Together they discuss mathematical theorems, Black power, and what Andy has deemed the curse of Africa.

Inevitably, Andy falls hopelessly in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on: Eileen, Father McMahon's niece. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. The first is that an unfamiliar man there claims to be Andy's father. The second is that an anti-Christian mob has gathered, headed for the church. In the ensuing havoc and its aftermath, Andy is forced to reckon with his identity and desires and determine how to live on the so-called Cursed Continent.

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through.

Exit West follows these characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.

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✨WHAT'S POPPIN' THIS APRIL (Part 1)✨

The 32 upcoming books shown are:

• Pieces of Me by Kate McLaughlin

• Earth Angel by Madeline Cash

• Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper by J. Ryan Stradal

• Alondra by Gina Femia

• Hot Dutch Daydream by Kristy Boyce

• Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler

• The Cherished by Patricia Ward

• Hestia Strikes a Match by Christine Grillo

• Twice Cursed: An Anthology by Various Authors

• Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

• Standing on Neptune by Valerie Sherrard

• The Warden by Daniel M. Ford

• Five First Chances by Sarah Jost

• Santa Ana by Addison J. Chapple, Rachael Flanery

• For the First Time, Again by Sylvain Neuvel

• The Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson

• See It End by Brianna Labuskes

• The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong

• The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro

• Places Like These by Lauren Carter

• Kismet by Becky Chalsen

• The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan

• If We're Being Honest by Cat Shook

• If I See You Again by Robbie Couch

• No Boy Summer by Amy Spalding

• The Song of Wrath by Sarah Raughley

• Sizzle Reel by Carlyn Greenwald

• Where Coyotes Howl by Sandra Dallas

• The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

• The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton

• The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

• Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

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Bapakku uda ngode klo beres kontrak suru resign, akupun yaaa agak ngehe jg. Tapi seruu kerja disini, rotasi cabangnya juga tetep seruu kedaerah2 yg alamnya bagus🥹🥹 pengen rotasi ke Bajoe sama Ternate bangett🥹🥹 kalo suka explore2 sebenernya kerja disini fun poool🤣🤣 tp buoros gaji mek lewat soale ngasi makan holidey🤣

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Read Your Way Through Lagos

Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the exquisite bedlam of Lagos, a megacity of extremes. Here, he defines the books that make sense of the chaos. source https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/books/books-lagos-nigeria.html

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The author’s debut novel is an imaginative tale about a troubled Nigerian teenager’s rite of passageThere has been a spate of excellent novels about Nigeria, its past and present predicaments. Set in the predominantly Muslim town of Kontagora, Stephen...

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O poder da indiferença

O poder da indiferença – Esse texto foi escrito por Rodrigo Buoro, paciente com espondilite anquilosante, é uma análise e reflexão sobre sua convivência com a doença.  O poder da indiferença. O poder da indiferença: Já ouviu ou leu a seguinte frase: “O que os olhos não veem o coração não sente?”, posso afirmar que nunca fez tanto sentido quanto atualmente, trazendo uma convicção plena de seu…

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Ferrari 499P

The new Ferrari 499P doing its debut in Imola, during Finali Mondiali.

Image by Umberto Buoro || IG

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Ford GT40

Image by Umberto Buoro

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Starring: Porsche 917K

By Umberto Buoro

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POESIA VISUAL NO SÉCULO XXI

Em um contexto histórico e social tomado pelas novas tecnologias, a literatura também passa por mudanças. A  “tensão entre o campo da escrita e o campo da imagem - esta última quase sempre em posição subordinada - certamente sofre as influências da passagem da chamada civilização da escrita para o predomínio atual da imagem” (CAPPARELLI, GRUSZYNSKI, KMOHAN, 2000, p. 73).

Isso significa que “agora, e cada vez mais, um poema é visto antes de ser lido, lido visualmente antes de ser dito” (DELAS; FILLIOLET, 1974, p.202-203 apud BUORO, 2014, p. 19).

Os próximos posts possuem como conteúdo autores e obras da poesia visual no século XXI.