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  So who's got an xteink?

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  Sweet little book for young readers: The Map in My Hair by Colleen A. Phillip. A little girl is learning, while getting her own hair braided by her mom, about the cruelty of slavery, and how enslaved people encoded escape routes into the patterns in their hairstyles.

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  A reminder about how well Olufuke Grace Bankole’s The Edge of Water, winner of this year's VCU Cabell First Novelist Awards, has been received! https://www.instagram.com/p/DbLgwOIASlg/

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  Sue Nyathi's success didn't happen overnight! https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da0yGymOIW6/

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  Five African classics you can read in a day, from NoName on IG https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaDLBWXtUpY/?igsh=d2lqaGd3d3JyZGZo

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  My special special delivery from Blaft is here! India Street Lettering: A Journey Through Typographic Craft and Culture x Pooja Saxena.

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  Adding my voice to everyone else's: This is incredible work. // The Event https://jewishcurrents.org/the-event

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  Ripped by judge, DOJ drops subpoenas of New York Times reporters  | Courthouse News Service https://www.courthousenews.com/ripped-by-judge-doj-drops-subpoenas-of-new-york-times-reporters/

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  Afro RomCon Literary Prize Announces 2026 Winners https://www.writingafrica.com/afro-romcon-literary-prize-announces-2026-winners/

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  Delighted to join the team this week (words: me) for umbubudlo with Zanele Muholi. Get the latest @thecontinent@mas.to here (pdf): https://www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/287178_b44e8c33e7c644d687d959f61408490e.pdf?index=true

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  For the latest @thecontinent@mas.to , which you can download here (pdf): https://www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/287178_8df26664729f453cae66dbcd6b98b438.pdf?index=true

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  This is lovely, from @thecontinent@mas.to's incoming EIC, Christine Mungai

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  Excerpt: Shards x Cynthia Rumbidzai Marangwanda HRB is delighted to bring you an excerpt from Shards by Cynthia Rumbidzai Marangwanda (Carnelian Heart Publishing, 2023). Carnelian Heart kindly provided the excerpt below. Cynthia Marangwanda is a Zimbabwean writer, poet, and spoken-word artist. She has shared her work locally and abroad, in places such as Namibia, Lesotho, the Netherlands, and the US. Her poetry and writing mainly deal with themes of identity, African… http://hararereview.com/2...

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  The Johannesburg Festival of Women Writers, and the launch of Inyathi Ibuzwa Kwabaphambili, March 2026 Earlier in the year, in March, HRB was at the opening of the Johannesburg Festival of Women Writers at the Nelson Mandela Theatre. It was a vibrant and colourful feminist affair! (So much so, in fact, that a meninist audience member tried to bring the vibe down, actually.) Panelists lead audience members in singing "Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe" ("Let the name of… http://hara...

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  This week for the Sunday Long Read: The Age of Calamities by Senaa Ahmad https://mailchi.mp/sundaylongread/july-18best-journalism-stories-longform-michael-mooney-4765947

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  July 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us https://msmagazine.com/2026/07/01/best-new-feminist-books-july-2026-reads-for-the-rest-of-us-lgbtq-women-writers/

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  Rabbit Test and Other Stories x Samantha Mills http://hararereview.com/2026/07/07/rabbit-test-and-other-stories-x-samantha-mills/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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  Ex Partum x emma burnett http://hararereview.com/2026/07/07/ex-partum-x-emma-burnett/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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  From Dr Ainehi Edoro's Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think

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  My latest for @thecontinent, on Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation & Liberation, edited by Raouf Farrah & Suraya Dadoo. Find it on pp 29-30 here (pdf): https://www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/6e6e8f_f3812f47a3874a1fba5efe4e79a0a423.pdf

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  Prize-Winning Sci Fi Novels of 2024 https://fivebooks.com/best-books/prize-winning-sci-fi-novels-of-2024-sylvia-bishop/