Afro-optimist/Afro-reformer. Curious mind.
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
9 Dec 2025
Publication day is officially here! 😱 📚🥳🎉🎊🍾
A book about Tamale, the city I was born and raised in, endorsed by the most amazing feminist scholar of this generation, Professor Sylvia Tamale! 🔥
Congratulations to me for writing an entire book. 🥹😊
Ti diya! 💃🏿
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
13 Aug 2025
Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest
theguardian.com/books/2025/a…
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
21 Nov 2024
I'll be sharing some things about rituals from personal, artistic, and academic perspectives. Join us, let's talk! 🙏🏿
21 Nov 2024
📣 Ritual As Speculative Portal: An Online Offering by LOATAD Prof. Ian H. Munro Fellow, Kwame Boafo
📅 Saturday, 30 November, 2024
🕰️ 3pm
📍Online on Zoom
🎫 Register at bit.ly/loatadboafo
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
21 Nov 2024
📣 Ritual As Speculative Portal: An Online Offering by LOATAD Prof. Ian H. Munro Fellow, Kwame Boafo
📅 Saturday, 30 November, 2024
🕰️ 3pm
📍Online on Zoom
🎫 Register at bit.ly/loatadboafo
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
16 Nov 2024
Out Of Africa: Library Of Africa And The African Diaspora (LOATAD) Announces Its 2025 Black Atlantic Residents thebritishblacklist.co.uk/ou… via @The British Blacklist
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
1 Nov 2024
Huge thanks to our awesome panel of esteemed judges for the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2025:
- Molara Wood (@molarawood) 🇳🇬
- Tom Correia 🇧🇷
- Dr Barby Asante 🇬🇧
Read all about them at the link 👇🏿
We’re grateful for their diligence & support 🙏🏿
loatad.org/2024/11/01/meet-t…
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
29 Oct 2024
'It's a radical act to have a Black library in a Black country' Sylvia Arthur explains why she founded @loatad_org after struggling to find books by Black authors in Ghana. Check out the convo incl. Seth Avusuglo (@Barrist) on the @makeitplainorg podcast. make-it-plain.org/podcast/
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
25 Oct 2024
MIP S2 EP17 OUT NOW W/LOATAD
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@Kehinde_Andrews Talks W/Sylvia Arthur (@Circa1957) Seth Avusuglo (@Barrist) From "The Library Of Africa And The African Diaspora" (@LOATAD_Org) A Decolonizing Institution In Accra, Ghana, About Their Work More
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Listen Wherever You Get Podcasts
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
17 Aug 2024
‼️ 1 DAY LEFT TO APPLY FOR THE LOATAD BLACK ATLANTIC RESIDENCY 2025!
Theme: What is Africa to Us? African Solidarities
⏳: 18 August, 2024
👉🏿: loatad.org/solidarities
Apply to our residency programme for Africa & Diaspora writers
*PLEASE SHARE WIDELY* 🙏🏿 #loatadblackatlantic
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
6 Aug 2024
📣 12 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY FOR THE LOATAD BLACK ATLANTIC RESIDENCY 2025!
Theme: What is Africa to Us? African Solidarities
⏳: 18 August, 2024
👉🏿: loatad.org/solidarities
Apply to our residency programme for Africa & Diaspora writers
*PLEASE SHARE WIDELY* 🙏🏿 #loatadblackatlantic
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
30 Jul 2024
📣 3 WEEKS LEFT TO APPLY FOR THE LOATAD BLACK ATLANTIC RESIDENCY 2025!
Theme: What is Africa to Us? African Solidarities
👉🏿: loatad.org/solidarities
🕰️: 18 August, 2024
Apply to the second iteration of our residency programme for African & Diaspora writers #loatadblackatlantic
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
26 Jul 2024
Thank you for visiting, Dr Uhuru Phalafala 🇿🇦, whose poetry collection Mine, Mine, Mine (African Poetry Book Series, 2023), is a personal narration of her family’s experience of the migrant labour system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
23 Jul 2024
📣 ANNOUNCING THE LOATAD BLACK ATLANTIC RESIDENCY 2025!
Theme: What is Africa to Us? African Solidarities
👉🏿: loatad.org/solidarities
🕰️: 18 August, 2024
Apply to the second iteration of our residency programme for writers from across Africa & the Diaspora #loatadblackatlantic
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
13 Jun 2024
📣 FILM SCREENING: CERTAIN WINDS FROM THE SOUTH
Date: Saturday, 22 June 2024
Time: 3 pm
Location: LOATAD, Adenta, Accra
Tickets: bit.ly/loatadcertainwinds
Free, but booking essential. LIMITED SPACE. FIRST COME, FIRST RESERVED!
#loatadevents #loatad
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
19 Apr 2024
Sending a huge “Thank You!” to Professor Esi Sutherland 🇬🇭 for hosting a workshop at LOATAD for our Black Atlantic residents. We are grateful for her scholarship and for her generosity in spending time and sharing with our residents. 📷 @barrist
#loatad #loatadblackatlantic
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
13 Mar 2024
Language Through Music
This Saturday, I'm teaching Twi through Ghanaian Music
Buy a Class Pass
languagesthroughmusic.com/le…
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
5 Mar 2024
#1949books is 4 years old!!! With a lot of trepidations did we open 4 years ago, not knowing exactly where we were going. We still don't but we have an idea. From a library opened with 150 books, we have about 1,000 books today, a (little) bookstore, a writing residency.
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
24 Feb 2024
Interested in learning The Ewe Language,
Sign up for the Ewe Language Course here.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Seth Avusuglo retweeted
29 Jan 2024
Congratulations to all the writers who’ve been selected for the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2024! Read all about them at the link below 🥳🥳🥳
loatad.org/2024/01/29/announ…
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