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@TJBenson_

Alum of @moniackmhor @uiiwp @art_omi Teaching @lolwe Building @zapublications

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Joined January 2011
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Let's be honest and realistic with ourselves for once, is bad sex a red flag or deal breaker for you? We need to start having this conversations.
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Lolwe@Lolwe_Oct 26
Our October edition is out now! Featuring: fiction by Charles Kadib and Pearl Bunyazi; poetry by Abigail George and Felix Eshiet; and nonfiction by Tony Simo Dzumgang (in French). lolwe.org

Lolwe | A Pan-African Literary Platform

Lolwe is a Pan-African literary arts platform. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid writing, orature, drama, translation, and visual art.

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Madhouse by TJ Benson.
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This is very much needed this heat period.
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are there any writers here from gabon, burkina faso, togo, guinea, burundi, djibouti or niger? if you know any please mention them below or share this with them. it’s for a @lolwe_ project i am working on.
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How to Be an African Writer in the AI Era by Tope Folarin  A past winner of the Caine Prize draws a hard lesson from the controversy over its latest recipient. Archived, no paywall link to the Atlantic article is here: archive.ph/8H2o7
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I’ll be judging the Evaristo Prize alongside Juliane Okot Bitek and Uhuru Phalafala. If you’re eligible, please send in your poems. We can’t wait to read them!
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An organization of Writers of African origin that protects each other from the global ai-witchhunt (which doesn’t seem unconnected to the rising global fascism) because things are about to get very ugly.
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for months, myself, @RomeoOriogun & @TroyOnyango asked people to examine the conversations about AI that they were participating in, people called us fools. today, the coordinated attacks is showing y'all that the people you're dealing with never had good intentions.
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🚨 OPEN CALL: The Open Arts Fund is back for its 3rd cycle! ₦1.5M in funding for artists, duos, collectives & creative projects telling powerful stories about Northern Nigeria. Two categories. Deadline: 10 Nov 2026. Apply now! openartsworld.org/blog/open-…
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Young Writers Don’t Need Anyone’s Permission: An Interview with NoViolet Bulawayo iselemagazine.com/2025/11/15…

Young Writers Don’t Need Anyone’s Permission: An Interview with NoViolet Bulawayo

NoViolet Bulawayo’s short story, “Hitting Budapest,” won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011, and last month it won the Best of Caine award, in celebration of the initiative’s 25th annivers…

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“There is a big picture that brings it all into relief and my hope is that we can increase empathy and understanding,” says 2026 medicine laureate Karl Deisseroth. As a medical student, Deisseroth completed part of his training at a psychiatric clinic. He was struck by the patients’ suffering and their need for help. At the same time, he began to wonder how the brain could function so differently from one person to another. Deisseroth was awarded this year's medicine prize, together with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, for discoveries leading to optogenetics – a biological technique making it possible to switch the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain on or off. Optogenetics is now helping us understand more about how nerve cells shape memories, emotions and behaviour in the living brain. Learn more about the 2026 medicine prize: bit.ly/4ru82ml
Karl Deisseroth in a white shirt sits at a table, thoughtfully holding a model of a brain in one hand. Photo by Christopher Michel.

ALT Karl Deisseroth in a white shirt sits at a table, thoughtfully holding a model of a brain in one hand. Photo by Christopher Michel.

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Congratulations! He's a Psychiatrist and has joined the elite list of psychiatrists who have won the prize. His wife is also a neurologist and one of the world's top neuro-oncology researchers. Nosocomial 🤝
Stanford University
@StanfordOct 5
The most important briefings of the day. Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his kids.
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only been six days since launch and we’ve been getting orders(!!!). grateful for the support and the feedback too as we refine what lolwe store can be. check it out: lolwe.org/store
Troy Onyango@TroyOnyangoSep 29
stayed up all night working on the some lolwe stuff including the monthly edition, some merch and a few other things to be launched next year. the edition is out, read it. and here’s the merch store: lolwe.org/store

Lolwe Store

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Made the most out of September
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I will never forgive Pentecostal boomers for demonizing this festival. The rhetoric was that this festival caused a boom of witchcraft in Nigeria because they brought art (sculpted works) from all over the world. The arts were demonic. I was told this in 1999. Imagine that.
Yorùbáness@YorubanessFeb 15
Black Americans at the Festac 77 Festival in Lagos Nigeria in 1977. The festival was created to unite Black people all over the world 🖤
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The official trailer for Arie and Chuko Esiri’s ‘CLARISSA’ has been released. Starring Sophie Okonedo, David Oyelowo, India Amarteifio, Ayo Edebiri, Toheeb Jimoh and Nikki Amuka-Bird.

Clarissa - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters December

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There’s no lit mag in Africa that pays its editors a livable wage, & most ppl who run lit mags do so bcos of their love for literature. If they ask you to follow a guideline, it’s bcos it makes their job easier & allows them to spend time on the job that actually pays their bills
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stayed up all night working on the some lolwe stuff including the monthly edition, some merch and a few other things to be launched next year. the edition is out, read it. and here’s the merch store: lolwe.org/store

Lolwe Store

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