Troy Onyango
@TroyOnyango
founder @Lolwe_ @namand_co • co-founder @EnkareReview • owner @LolweBooksKE/@LolweBooksUK
i am thrilled and honoured to be one of the judges for the international booker prize 2026 alongside such wonderful, brilliant people! thank you @TheBookerPrizes for this opportunity. 🙏🏿❤️
read @eloosunde’s #necessaryfiction. write reviews. post photos. talk about it in your book clubs. gift it to your loved ones.
Sometimes, you have to meet audacity with audacity and madness with madness. Small small.
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More than anything, I’m seeing a divide between people who like real shit and people who don’t mind lies as long as it’s dressed up nice smh
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor: Re-Worlding Africa: Imagination, Time & Sculpting The Future #AcademicConference #Keynote @AfricanLitAssoc @AdhiamboKE writingafrica.com/yvonne-adhiamb…
“each time I take a look at the kenyan bracelet on my wrist, i am confronted with the possibility that kenya might never be the same again after ruto’s presidency.” my reflection on the protests in kenya for @TIME time.com/7305203/willia…
the goal is to build something even bigger. wait, it’s coming.
Moving beyond thresholds, and limits is so important to realising, and defining your sense of self in the world.
If you haven't. Do yourself a favor and do it now. time.com/7305203/willia…
Reading @TroyOnyango's Times essay yesterday and I was constantly triggered by the exact parallels of the Kenyan police brutality experiences with the Nigerian one. It is insane because I have heard it said by young Ghanaians as well.
i tell people this is one of the best novels ever written. i still remember the feeling of reading it for the first time those many years ago!
I’m reading “Jazz” by Toni Morrison for the first time. And I feel like more people should rave about this book, too. The characters are insane and the plot is truly diabolical. Like omg. 😩 Chaos with beautiful prose. 😭
“i resist fanatic nationalism. we die for the flag, and who dies? it is the poor, not the rich.” - nawal el-sadaawi
we ought to have one, even if it’s via zoom
Perhaps we need another Makerere/Accra Conference on African Literature.
“sometimes you don’t survive whole you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it’s not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances.” - toni morrison
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Our July edition is out now! Featuring: fiction by Gloria Mwaniga Odary, poetry by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, hybrid by Orji Victor Ebubechukwu, visual by Habibat Muhammad Sani, and drama by Doreen Masika. lolwe.org
Our July edition is out now! Featuring: fiction by Gloria Mwaniga Odary, poetry by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi, hybrid by Orji Victor Ebubechukwu, visual by Habibat Muhammad Sani, and drama by Doreen Masika. lolwe.org