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#PublishingPaidMe: How Black and White authors shocked the internet
by Toluwanimi Onakoya Do you consider yourself a bookworm? Have you ever wondered how much your favourite author was paid for your favourite book? Well, the answers came tumbling in recently,…
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Nnedi Okorafor wants us to destroy the ”light female, dark male” trope that has pervaded books and movies
The ''light female, dark male'' trope is so entrenched in popular culture that it's hard to ignore it. From cartoons and comics to books and movies, female animals, aliens, monsters…
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Good riddance! Nnedi Okorafor unfriended a man on Facebook who had sexist views about women
I follow Nnedi Okorafor on Twitter, and one thing that I have noticed about her online personality is that she does not suffer fools gladly. Whether she's having a conversation…
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Viola Davis taps Nnedi Okorafor, Wanuri Kahiu to adapt Octavia Butler’s ‘Wild Seed’ for Amazon!
It's the biggest news this week in black popular culture: Viola Davis will help to adapt the first of Octavia Butler's Afrofuturist patternist books Wild Seed for Amazon, a television series…
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Today’s Noisemakers: Nnedi Okorafor, Shehu Sani, Olashile Abayomi and others
Every day on the Nigerian Internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues,…
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Shuri is getting her own comic book series and this must be what black girl magic feels like
Just one thing: a Shuri-centric comic book series will be badass. Be very afraid, colonisers! OK, just kidding. When Avengers: Infinity War ended with evil, brooding Thanos halving the universe,…
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Entertainment Roundup: Black Panther’s Shuri is getting her own comic book series; Blackface says 2Baba is suing him for N50m | More stories
Here’s everything you missed in entertainment yesterday and others that unravelled while you slept – and are still buzzing today. Blackface says 2Baba is suing him for N50m Blackface Naija has…
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Don’t ever mix juju with technology! Here’s your second look at CJ Obasi’s afrofuturistic short film “Hello, Rain”
I feel like the warning, “Don't ever mix juju with technology” will be stuck with me for a long time. Thanks, Rain. From the time CJ Obasi’s Hello, Rain started…
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Today’s Noisemakers: Nnedi Okorafor, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Kate Henshaw, others
Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social matters,…
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Chimamanda Adichie, Banky W, Toke Ibru, others make YNaija inaugural #Woke100 List
In 2017, YNaija committed a big part of its time and resources towards carefully documenting the big stories happening in the country and on the continent and highlighting the efforts…
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Super Eagles, Aishah Ahmad, Davido, Patience Jonathan | Here are last week’s winners and losers
From sports to politics to entertainment and even literature, here are our winners and losers from last week's biggest newsmakers: WINNERS Super Eagles Nigeria is on its way to Russia…
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Nigeria’s Nnedi Okorafor to write Black Panther
Nigerian American writer, Nnedi Okorafor has announced that she will be writing a 3-issue storyline of Black Panther for Marvel. We can exclusively say it is going to be exciting. Now…
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George R.R. Martin explains his role in the TV series adaptation for Nnedi Okorafor’s book
George R.R. Martin, the author of the best selling series, A Song of Fire and Ice, which exploded onto our screens as Game of Thrones explains his exact involvement with…
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The Thread: “Basic stupidity” | Game of Thrones author, Martin & others blast Vice for messing with Nnedi Okorafor
Moments like this make us grateful for the Twitter outrage machine. Two days ago, author and professor Nnedi Okorafor shared this wonderful news on Twitter. Media outlets tend to…
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Entertainment Roundup: Jay-Z says his marriage to Beyonce was “not built on 100 percent truth”; Game of Thrones producers to make Nigerian novel into TV series | More stories
Here are the biggest stories from yesterday and others that unraveled while you slept and are still buzzing on Entertainment Roundup this morning. Have you seen Adesua Etomi lately? If…
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