- Buying cowrie shells in Serekunda Market, The Gambia - 18th July 2007 (Cowrie shells are known as 'Owo Eyo' or 'Odowo' in Yoruba).
- [Cowrie shells - 'owo eyo' or odowo in Yoruba]
- *Images by MW.
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About Me
- Wordsbody
- I am a writer and arts journalist now based in Lagos. This is a blog on arts and culture. The focus is on Nigeria's art scene, especially her 'Word's Body' - the writers. As and when, we'll also touch on wider African writing, as well as international literature. In short, a saturation of the arts.
My Blog List
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Keynote Lecture at AAH Annual Conference, University of Cambridge - So, on April 10, 2026, I made a quick one-day trip to the University of Cambridge to give a Keynote Lecture at the Annual Conference of the Association...
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Championing literary translation in Nigeria - Yesterday, I read an excellent article by Carl Terver on “The Middleclass Problem of Nigerian Writing.” He writes about the inaccessibility of contemporary...5 weeks ago
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Spring Update - The Dream Hotel had a dream launch, much to my relief and delight. It received excellent reviews, including in the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the B...11 months ago
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Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen? - Oliver Kim - Why did the Industrial Revolution happen? Why, for the past two centuries, have hundreds of millions of people moved off the farm and into factories? St...1 year ago
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Ronasi Fiction Prize for Mototi Ward Primary Schools (Zimbabwe) - The Ronald Sigauke Memorial Fiction Prize, in collaboration with Chisiya Writers’ Workshop in Mazvihwa, Zimbabwe, announces the first edition of the RONAS...2 years ago
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Jump Up! - I have a picture of the wedding dance. This island man, young and handsome, with epaulettes, leads me, in my white gown and silk slippers, around the pavil...5 years ago
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Before You Send Out Your Manuscript - Dear Writer, Writing is an act of self-exploration and submitting your work to a publisher can be the scariest act of your life. As publishers, we are awar...
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Fresh fields... - I have decided to stop blogging - not that that changes much - the world of the blogosphere is pretty dead, no one is really bothering any more, it takes t...7 years ago
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Short Commentary on The End of Days, Far From My Father, and Maid in SA - I’m not quite feeling my current format of titling these grouped review posts. The previous one is “Short Reviews of a Kang, a Clemmons and a Manyika“. O...
7 years ago
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