๐ New on #Archipel
DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju reflects on grief, joy, and the conversations that shape a poetโs craft.
๐ Read the reflection:
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/2-craft-co...
#poetry #Currents #DEWScholarship #LiteraryMentorship
09.03.2026 13:42
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From the Archipel Orbit: this week's final dispatch:
@nadinearaksi.bsky.social series 12 Permission Slips I Needed in 2025 offers luminous reflections on rest, healing,and reclaiming herself after burnout.
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/from-the-a...
08.03.2026 15:08
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My Ivorian driverโs license is valid for life.
One of the few documents that assumes Iโll stay.
๐ A Lifetime Ivorian Driverโs License
๐ carawaterfall.substack.com/p/a-lifetime...
#Longform #Currents #PersonalEssay #cotedivoire #abidjan
22.02.2026 19:39
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My driverโs test in Abidjan took place in an abandoned football field. A small story about language, permission, and the systems that decide when we belong.
โฆ A Lifetime Ivorian Driverโs License ๐
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/a-lifetime...
#Abidjan #CotedIvoire #PersonalEssay #Currents #Archipel
18.02.2026 19:34
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โI feel a gravitational pull to artโโ ๐งฒโจ
Archipel #32: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-a...
#PoetryQuote #CreativeLife #Archipel
12.02.2026 15:58
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Archipel #32: Sloan Asakura ๐ฏ๏ธ
A conversation on art, ritual, and connection.
๐https://carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-asakura
#Archipel #PoetryCommunity
08.02.2026 12:25
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On slowness.
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/learning-a...
25.01.2026 19:20
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"Poetry is the only genre that understands my heart and translates my heartbeat onto the pages." ๐๐ ๐
Read more about Victor, the poet as archivist:
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-...
#currents #Archipel
14.01.2026 12:43
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"My work reflects the socio-political condition of Nigeriansโฆ and what we, as Igbos, are known for." ๐ณ๐ฌโ๐พ
~ Victor Unachukwu ๐ฟ
๐ carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-...
#currents #IgboPoet
14.01.2026 12:33
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๐ "Archiving these stories for the next generation to read, for me, stands as a lasting legacy." ๐โจ" ๐โจ
Full profile: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-...
#currents #PoetryAsWitness
12.01.2026 13:15
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Cรดte dโIvoire 3โ0.
Coup de marteau everywhere.
I wrote about the noise, the joy, the elephant in the room.
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/the-elepha...
07.01.2026 17:01
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๐ CAN season. The elephant is back in the room. New on Archipel: writing from inside the noise.
carawaterfall.substack.com/p/the-elepha...
#AFCON2025 #CรดtedIvoire #Abidjan #FootballCulture #WestAfrica #CulturalWriting
05.01.2026 12:58
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๐ Craft is the work beneath the work. ๐จโจ
DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju reflects on the lessons he's learning as he puts together his first creative writing workshop. ๐๐
๐ carawaterfall.substack.com/p/craft-comm...
#PoetryCraft #Archipel #Currents ๐
18.12.2025 00:13
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๐ New on #Archipel:
Craft ยท Community ยท Visibility
A mentorship reflection centering the voice of DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju โ on making the work, building community and learning how to be seen.
๐ carawaterfall.substack.com/p/craft-comm...
#poetry #mentorship #Currents #DEWScholar
16.12.2025 21:04
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Highlighting Groundwork ๐ฉต๐ โ the generative writing workshop co-founded by Elena Sรฉnรฉchal-Becker & Knowah Holder.
Writing toward new queer futures. โจ
More โ carawaterfall.substack.com/p/30-elena-s...
#Groundwork #QueerWriters #Archipel
11.12.2025 13:14
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New on #Archipel ๐ฟ
A conversation with **Elena Sรฉnรฉchal-Becker** โจ on care, design, queer lineage, and writing as refuge. โ๏ธ
Read โ carawaterfall.substack.com/p/30-elena-s...
#Currents #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity
10.12.2025 20:35
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๐ญ โBinda turns everyday language into theatre โ bold, absurd, brilliant.โ
Full feature โ
๐ tr.ee/77Qacq
#BindaNgazolo #Nouchi #SlamIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
09.12.2025 12:42
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๐ง โNash is cadence incarnate. She takes the mic and the room rearranges itself.โ
Full feature โ
๐ tr.ee/77Qacq
#Nash #Nouchi #IvorianMusic #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
06.12.2025 14:02
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โก โNouchi at full voltage. Zero fear. 100% vision.โ
Full profile โ
๐ tr.ee/77Qacq
#Suspect95 #Nouchi #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel
06.12.2025 14:01
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๐ฒ โForty-eight hours without grub, and we could drop at any second.โ โ Kapegik, Mort Subite
Full feature โ
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โจ All misfires belong to the translator; all brilliance to the author.
#Kapegik #Nouchi #IvorianLiterature #Abidjan
03.12.2025 11:45
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๐๐ฃ๏ธ New: Nouchi 101
A deep dive into Abidjanโs living language โ a tongue shaped by the street, by history, by humor, by refusal.
I also spotlight 5 artists who bend language toward something electric and alive.
Full post โ ๐ tr.ee/77Qacq
#Nouchi #CotedIvoire #UrbanPoetics #Archipel #LivingLanguages
01.12.2025 20:10
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๐ฟ New in #Archipel | #Currents ๐ฃ Pamilerin Jacobโs chapbooks trace the interior shifts that shape a life into art. ๐บ๏ธ๐ซถ
Read Cordial With Disillusionment for free & you can also donate to a stellar poet, editor & community builder! ๐๐ณ๐ฌ tr.ee/MhsaRw ๐
#NigerianPoetry #NigerianPoet ๐ฑ
20.11.2025 13:23
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๐ New in #Archipel | #Currents ๐ฃ
Pamilerin Jacob says his art is โa transliteration of the subconsciousโ โ a way to carry interior life into language without losing its pulse. โค๏ธโ๐ฅ
Read the full feature here: tr.ee/MhsaRw ๐
#NigerianPoetry #NigerianPoet #NaijaPoetry #AfricanPoetry #PoetryCommunity ๐
18.11.2025 11:50
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๐ ๐ Before it was a book, #TheRacialImaginary began as a public exchange โ a collective act of noticing how imagination is shaped by history.
โ๏ธ I explores how imagination isn't neutral in my latest #Archipel post: tr.ee/V4KNhY
#Poetry #ClaudiaRankine #BethLoffreda #ArtsAndEquity #Currents
10.11.2025 14:25
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๐ #Currents Prompt #2: The Syllabus Is Flammable
What happens if we stop worshipping the canon and start rewriting it? ๐ฅ Write your own controlled burn.
Read + respond on #Archipel: tr.ee/SiFyQP
#PoetryCommunity #WritingPrompt #ControlledBurn #Archipel #CraftTalk #Poetry #AmWriting
04.11.2025 11:37
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