Jide Salawu
@jidesalawu.bsky.social
Ọkọ Kóbìtán. PhDing @UAlberta. Gateman @Brown Bamboo. Editor @OlongoAfrica. Newsletter @flaminghydra.com
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Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
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"Since the British left it over sixty years ago, Nigeria has lived through many iterations of democratic disillusionment and the broken promises of many military messiahs."
My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
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My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
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"Since the British left it over sixty years ago, Nigeria has lived through many iterations of democratic disillusionment and the broken promises of many military messiahs."
My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/?a...
My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/?a...
Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
flaminghydra.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"Since the British left it over sixty years ago, Nigeria has lived through many iterations of democratic disillusionment and the broken promises of many military messiahs."
My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/?a...
My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/?a...
"Since the British left it over sixty years ago, Nigeria has lived through many iterations of democratic disillusionment and the broken promises of many military messiahs."
My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/?a...
My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/?a...
Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
flaminghydra.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"Since the British left it over sixty years ago, Nigeria has lived through many iterations of democratic disillusionment and the broken promises of many military messiahs."
My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/?a...
My thoughts on home and Nigeria's insecurity challenges @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/?a...
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Why it is imperative to prosecute the crimes of the powerful.
A hypnotic read from @jidesalawu.bsky.social, today at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/#i...
A hypnotic read from @jidesalawu.bsky.social, today at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/#i...
Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
flaminghydra.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Why it is imperative to prosecute the crimes of the powerful.
A hypnotic read from @jidesalawu.bsky.social, today at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/#i...
A hypnotic read from @jidesalawu.bsky.social, today at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/#i...
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TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on unthinkable crime too close to home. “My uncle and I discussed how the villages are now at the mercy of terrorists, both inside the government and out.” flaminghydra.com/r/24246a34?m...
Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
flaminghydra.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on unthinkable crime too close to home. “My uncle and I discussed how the villages are now at the mercy of terrorists, both inside the government and out.” flaminghydra.com/r/24246a34?m...
Thank you Maria! ❤️
Why it is imperative to prosecute the crimes of the powerful.
A hypnotic read from @jidesalawu.bsky.social, today at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/#i...
A hypnotic read from @jidesalawu.bsky.social, today at @flaminghydra.com
flaminghydra.com/issue-457/#i...
Crimes forgiven
Jídé Salawu worries about his hometown
flaminghydra.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Thank you Maria! ❤️
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It's going to be beautiful and weird
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November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
We're making a new print magazine at @flaminghydra.com, 2x year, on a new top tier MAGAZINE WORLD subscription (plus bonus quarterly Broadsheets)
10% off this weekend for new subscribers!!
It's going to be beautiful and weird
flaminghydra.com/enter-the-ma...
10% off this weekend for new subscribers!!
It's going to be beautiful and weird
flaminghydra.com/enter-the-ma...
Edmonton tonight wears its white mascara. Timely one published by @flaminghydra.com
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Winter and the Unbearable Weight of Migration
In November 2023, a man was found cold dead in a tent in the Greater Toronto Area encampment. I was scrolling through Twitter when his story roused my attention. He was an asylum seeker from Nigeria, ...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Edmonton tonight wears its white mascara. Timely one published by @flaminghydra.com
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With friends In Kingston Ontario. I don't know why anyone would be anti-coffee! Need to get these guys on the side of the pure arabica!
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
With friends In Kingston Ontario. I don't know why anyone would be anti-coffee! Need to get these guys on the side of the pure arabica!
Thanks so much for your kind words and support always.✨✨✨🌸
This strong collection by @jidesalawu.bsky.social arrived in my life today. If you haven’t read Jide’s work yet, I encourage you to dive in! He writes of migration, the leaving and the waiting and the loss. He writes of a broken and exploited homeland, one that sings through him onto the page.
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Thanks so much for your kind words and support always.✨✨✨🌸
Yes man!
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Yes man!
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Thanks to Catherine Owen for this generous review of my book. It’s such an honour when someone takes the time to read and respond to your work, and you know that your work has reached beyond the void.
brilliantwomeninc.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...
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All of Us Hidden by Joanna Streetly (Caitlin Press 2025)
It might come as little surprise that I adore lyric poetry, real lyrics grounded in actual experience that produce their own wild and accura...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Thanks to Catherine Owen for this generous review of my book. It’s such an honour when someone takes the time to read and respond to your work, and you know that your work has reached beyond the void.
brilliantwomeninc.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...
brilliantwomeninc.blogspot.com/2025/11/all-...
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I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
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TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on Nigeria's power outage problem, which "did not start today, and its experience of endemic national outages is part of its history" flaminghydra.com/r/5250f9c0?m...
Rolling blackout
Jídé Salawu on politics and power (outages)
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October 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
TODAY: @jidesalawu.bsky.social on Nigeria's power outage problem, which "did not start today, and its experience of endemic national outages is part of its history" flaminghydra.com/r/5250f9c0?m...
Thanks to @ualbertapress.bsky.social for hosting us. 🙏🏾✨
Very grateful, and felt deeply honored to be questioned by my teacher and a genius poet Marilyn Dumont.
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Thanks to @ualbertapress.bsky.social for hosting us. 🙏🏾✨
Very grateful, and felt deeply honored to be questioned by my teacher and a genius poet Marilyn Dumont.
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Very grateful, and felt deeply honored to be questioned by my teacher and a genius poet Marilyn Dumont.
I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-g...
I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences
When I received the email, I was holding a piece of toast. Dry, no butter. I remember this vividly because it was the last thing in my life with a ...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-g...
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So many people are suffering. The king shits on them and destroys the house the slaves built.
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So many people are suffering. The king shits on them and destroys the house the slaves built.
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Posters are up! Very much looking forward to this book party with @lornedaniel.bsky.social
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Dual Book Launch and Celebration
Help celebrate the launch of these two new books. It's going to be a fun night, with some VERY SPECIAL musical guests to follow
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October 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Posters are up! Very much looking forward to this book party with @lornedaniel.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/dual-book-...
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Launch was great.✨ Thank you @newestpress.bsky.social @jenbdelisle.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Launch was great.✨ Thank you @newestpress.bsky.social @jenbdelisle.bsky.social
