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4 years

They don't know Abuja Protesters have been climbing mountain every Saturday for years in preparation. They don't know

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The first and last time my father flogged me, he thought I had stolen his money. We already established a relationship where I didn’t need to hide anything from my parents so I was shellshocked. When he found it later he knelt down and begged me until he cried to forgive him

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Brag about your DAD

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When my grandfather died my grandma couldn’t find a quiet spot to sit in the house. Mourners rolled on the ground before her, wailing and dreading her silence. When she saw me she was relieved ‘come and take me from these people,’

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Lol. I am so happy when i see tweets like this because it means some of you have been untouched by this thing and seriously? Bask in blissful unknowing. I genuinely love it for you.

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3 years

How tf y’all have anxiety? Bitch just relax

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1 year

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives is one of the best Nigerian novels of the last century. The language, the readability, the levels of meaning...that book is a classic and will be read decades to come

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3 months

‘They want me to cry as the widow of a dead man but I need a quiet place to think. To think of my friend.’ So I took her hand and led her out of the house. She and I were weird like that. I don’t know how to make my loss important enough. Grandmothers die. But she was my friend

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3 years

@VEEARTIST_ @akweah Because of colonialism. Your grandparents would be able to honestly tell you the precise moment and why African hair became a problem in the society

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6 years

@Daltimore @ADYK_41 @Ozymandias____ @TheGrandVezir So you can understand the film

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9 months

Then we went out to eat meatpie in savannah chumchum. I think he sensed I had potential to be unforgiving & he feared I’d start keeping things from him after changing our dynamic. Seeing him cry melted my little bitter heart 😂 & set a very high standard for men in my eyes

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9 months

So imagine my bewilderment when my parents died and I saw how the majority of adult men operated. Haven’t recovered tbh

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3 years

@mamaztheguru @cjrichmond15 The hair tuck!

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3 years

Highly likely that I might have designed custom bronze rings and will be ready to collect your monies soon because...

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3 months

My entire bloodline is wiped out in both directions and I feel anchorless like air. My only consolation is that I am next by natural order. That is my only peace. And I hope to live in fullness of the parents & grandparents gone before me.

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3 years

Lawyers in Nigeria wear wigs because Louis XIV had syphilis that made his hair fall out. As a remedy he covered up with a powdered wig and this became a fashion norm jn Britain where our legal system comes from

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3 years

Just branded my jewelry line

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1 year

A nonranked list of important contemporary African books 1. For what are Butterflies Without their Wings by Troy Onyango 2. Vagabonds by Eloghosa Osunde 3. Nomad by Romeo Oriogun 4. Dust by Yvonne Owuor 5. Clinical Blues by Dami Ajayi 6. Rumbling by Sihle Ntuli 7. Kwani? vol 7

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4 years

@primallassie @BlckPorcelain Kathy Bates will slay this scene

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4 years

Because there is no fucking sustainable industry for ballet in Lagos. After empowering the institution what next, invent customers who want to watch pirouttes by the lagoon?

Okpose n’Olose✨#EndSARS

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4 years

Why does the west think plucking talent out of Africa is always the way to do things? This child clearly attends a school that teaches phenomenal technique so why not idk, empower that institution instead of removing their finest?

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5 years

So the rape culture in ABU is this severe! A lecturer was raped in her office last year by other lecturers? O god I am sick. I am so fucking sick. Jesus. So this is why you people didnt want Fakhuus and Maryam to come talk about the consent panel. O god o God

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3 years

In the second half of 2022 my second novel and third book would be published by @masobebooks in Nigeria

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4 years

Romantic date- na for mountain hike. Secondary school reunion- mountain hike. Public holiday you go jam 3 other hike groups ontop one mountain. Haba, so na the plan be this?

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2 years

A whole new world. Are you ready?

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4 years

It's scary to break ties with toxic parents until you realize a lot of them disowned their traditional worshiping parents and moved to cities and into schools on scholarship without blinking

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2 years

@fatiabubakarr a very huge issue. returning won’t soothe this loneliness because the Nigeria you left is already dead. The drastic degradation that alters the face of the country every single week intensifies the loneliness of many who return because the country they left is no more

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9 months

@namse Never his too. So he took the initiative. You can if you choose to have kids

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7 years

'Time will break what doesn’t bend — even time. Even you.' - @KavehAkbar

Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into… | Poetry Magazine

Holy father I can’t pretend

www.poetryfoundation.org

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2 years

A dating app but for writers to find each other when in each other’s cities to hang out, find readings etc

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6 years

@jules__isabell @joneswyht How are you even patient with him? Sadly some of us don't think it is a big deal until a sister or daughter is involved.

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4 years

@RealityAssHole @mstrilliviapope Same energy

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1 year

The Arabic translation of my first novel The Madhouse will be released at the Cairo book fair next week in Egypt.

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@TJBenson_

5 months

For neco I wrote the short story that would become the madhouse

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5 months

The ultimate personality test is… During your WAEC exams when you were given the option between writing a letter and an essay… what did you choose?

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6 years

@JLG1017 @eugenegu @Mattison @NYTMetro Exactly. If she isn't punished in some way and/or he doesn't get counselling this event will shape his comfortability around women, especially white women

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3 years

Okay Nengi is pretty-pretty

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3 years

I am a brilliant writer. I am

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6 years

@KayusOnTheMic_ @Daltimore @ADYK_41 @Ozymandias____ @TheGrandVezir What people don't get is that even if we weren't colonised we would have learnt English for the sake of trade

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6 months

@elefaantz @LCD_D3M No one is doing lashes on the battlefield isa bar

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1 year

There is power in doing what you said you will do

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4 years

The problem with this 'able body youth' thing is last time I farmed was in 2016 & my farm was burnt to the ground on Christmas day by gun toting fulani herdsmen who raped and killed people living in the village close those villages. I am 'able-bodied' but I am not safe

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3 years

Turning 29 in 2weeks! 4 years ago i was terrified of this age but now i am so eager to cross into 30. Celebrate with me; an impossible live has stretched so far. I will create a playlist. You can buy gifts for me here

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3 years

The person who did the music score for Prince of Egypt clearly had mortgage or ransom to pay because what was intended as children's cartoon had no business being that layered and excellent. What was the reason?

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3 years

Last night

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4 years

@ronkerajii This video improved my health

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2 years

@8akuaa She said I am grieving not broke

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3 years

I am so delighted to be a part of this

International Writing Program

@UIIWP

3 years

TJ Benson ( #Nigeria @tjbenson_ ) is a writer and visual artist whose work explores the body in the context of memory, migration, utopia, and the unconscious self. His short story collection We Won’t Fade into Darkness was shortlisted... (1/2)

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2 years

'How is the writing going?' Can sound like an attack

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1 year

I hope you people are buying Nigerian books that keep coming out every year oh, so that you won’t complain that it is dying out. Support us now oh

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1 year

A few African Books that altered my brain 1. Collective Amnesia by Koleka Putuma 2. Kintu by Jennifer Makumbi 3. Stars of the New Curfew by Ben Okri 4. One More Tale for the Road by Chuma Nwokolo 5. SSDA: Migrations Anthology 6. This is our chance by James Ene Henshaw

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2 years

I am thrilled about the future of African fiction

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1 year

What an incredibly painful, heartbreaking year. What a glorious, boundary breaking, earth shifting year.

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1 year

Igbo is such a delicious language. This man is a generational talent

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1 year

Throwback to being FAR FROM HOME set and we decided to shoot this skit. @capt_elma my customer and Cheerleader 🤭😂😂 #Farfromhome #Boyonfire

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3 years

A likkle nervous but I will be surrounded with friends

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1 year

You deserve to know what it is like to finish a manuscript, that tedious thing that has changed form so many times since you began & seems will never perfect, you deserve to come to the end of it.

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3 years

@azemezi 'Are you okay' and 'are you mad' always gives the Nigerian meaning for me

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4 years

Tl asleep? Well twitter saw these first. With glasses without

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1 year

I lifted my arms for security man to search me but he hugged me instead and laughed

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@TJBenson_

5 years

I am happy to announce that my next book will be released in Nigeria in q4 2020 by Masobe Publishers 🎊

Masobe Books

@masobebooks

5 years

We are happy to announce to you the authors on the stable of Masobe Books. We are very excited about what the future of literature in Nigeria holds!

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@rjms8821 @themarissarae

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@thatguyuptown @ish_being In a cunty way?

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3 years

Writers are unemployed, let's be clear on that

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5 years

I still cant believe I'll be releasing a book next year from two publishers (so far) in two countries (so far). Wow

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@TJBenson_

6 years

I remember crying after being called a woman by a relative because I was babysitting his children 8years ago. This year I was discussing cartoons with them when he called me a woman and boy when I tell you my heart swelled with joy and gratitude. What a complement! 😭

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“You act like a girl” “ you act like a woman” . That used to get to me, until I realized that taking it as an offense was a huge problem as well. Why would I be offended because my mannerism fit the script of something I am half of?

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6 years

@LeaveItUp2Mel @SameOleYan I screamed

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3 years

#NewProfilePic #Happypublicationday #to #me #iamreceivingcakes #andredwine

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5 years

@artbycollinsaac I love how you say 'this masterpiece' like you really do know how good it is 👏👏👏

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3 years

#NewProfilePic

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1 year

The older i get the more i doubt anyone really gets over the death of a loved one.

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9 months

@Rene_noire It’s the replies contesting my experience for me 😂 we have suffered in this country sha

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4 years

@ShumbaLioness @ilaenimzaj @Rhomie_xOx I need his outfit in my size because what!!!

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2 years

Rough work

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3 years

Sometimes...

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4 years

Abolish entry fees for photography and writing competitions. If an org cannot afford to exist they shouldn't do so on the backs of young entry-level artists fighting to find their footing. Beginners need support & nurture, not tax

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@TJBenson_

1 year

Go look for Nigerian books by Sefi Attah Elnathan John Chika Unigwe Richard Ali Chuma Nwokolo

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3 years

I can't even lie. Money helps me concentrate

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5 years

The cover for my new novel is almost complete, saw it and flipped. I will soon become the author of TWO published books! This will soon become a tj stan account

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3 years

Rewarding day

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2 years

What a group to be nominated alongside. Deeply enjoying this

The Future Project

@TFAAfrica

2 years

THE FUTURE AWARDS AFRICA PRIZE FOR ART AND LITERATURE: Chigozie Obi (24), Mayowa ‘Shutabug’ Alabi (27), Niyi Okeowo (27), Renike Olusanya (27), Eloghosa Osunde, Tj Benson (30), Arinze Ifeakandu (27)

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1 year

I like how joy feels in my body. It makes life itself, the tired old thing, feel very new in me

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2 years

'So what if it doesn't look the way you planned? All of these days still belong to you' - Yrsa Daley Ward

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3 years

Thinking about the jewellery I've created in the past four months at Tsav and the people I've made happy (myself especially). There might be a whole new world waiting behind a whim, just on the other side of an ordinary door. Stay curious, pursue wonder always...

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@TJBenson_

1 year

Rewatch your favorite shows. Relisten to that song you play over and over again. Break out that savings & eat your favorite meal. Call in sick if you can. Sooth yourself. We lost yes but look at us, look how we marched, waited, bled, hoped. Have we ever been this alive?

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5 years

Slumflower has been tweeting this and journalist have been roasting her on international media for being classist/gold digging, etc. Thank goodness a man is seeing this too

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5 years

Relationship shouldn't be solely about love. Be strategic about whom you are with. Sometimes, it is the only way to move up in life.

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3 years

Testing

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4 years

Sha remember that as they redeploy these sars officers to other police departments, that as of september the police can legally collect your phone for inspection.

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@TJBenson_

5 years

I look forward to reading this book. You should too. Q4 2020

Masobe Books

@masobebooks

5 years

Coming soon from Masobe Books: THE MADHOUSE BY TJ BENSON ( @TJBenson_ )

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5 years

What is clear to me in this whole thing is that Nigerian parents don't parent their male children. No morals nothing. They wait for the society to do so and the most severe punishment a Nigerian society can mete a rapist is to make him marry and live with his victim

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3 years

I truly glow with friends

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9 months

@N_athan10 Lmao no, he gave me pocket money and I had my savings from happy christmases and birthdays I got from family friends. He hid the money in his shoes and forgot it there until he was going out in the evening. I was fuming!!!!!!!!!

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6 years

@akwe_sera @jules__isabell @joneswyht I was so mad why was she aswering his ignorance? Statistically females are more likely to be victims to why is it their responsibility to educate the gender statistically likely to be the abuser? After his second reply i shook my head

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@TJBenson_

9 months

For those contesting this, there are worlds and lives more possible than your experience I promise

saaku

@TJBenson_

9 months

The first and last time my father flogged me, he thought I had stolen his money. We already established a relationship where I didn’t need to hide anything from my parents so I was shellshocked. When he found it later he knelt down and begged me until he cried to forgive him

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5 years

'and if you're watching this and you're worried about me using my kabuki brush to contour, worry about yourself and your tax returns' President Chidera

THE SLUMFLOWER

@theslumflower

5 years

How to contour correctly with The Slumflower

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@TJBenson_

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'When they were young and still shared dreams, the younger brother woke up from a nightmare and whispered to the elder "I saw the future" Out in bookstores nationwide or via @masobebooks 🌙