Sivonyia Beckford

 21. Cancerian. South Florida. IG: Lovespella

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Sunset.

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Why Every Book About Africa Has the Same Cover

Last week, Africa Is a Country, a blog that documents and skewers Western misconceptions of Africa, ran a fascinating story about book design. It posted a collage of 36 covers of books that were either set in Africa or written by African writers. The texts of the books were as diverse as the geography they covered: Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique. They were written in wildly divergent styles, by writers that included several Nobel Prize winners. Yet all of books’ covers featured an acacia tree, an orange sunset over the veld, or both.

“In short,” the post said, “the covers of most novels ‘about Africa’ seem to have been designed by someone whose principal idea of the continent comes from The Lion King.”

Read more. [Image: Wikimedia Commons]

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Acacia

Six feet under,

vantablack.

I can not tell if my eyes are open or closed.

Though I feel wild vines covering the perimeter of my body,

Entering my eyes, and exiting my mouth,

slightly moist, yet it’s warm here. 

Everything is still.

Just above me, there is life happening.

It’s spine exits my soil, 

Carrying branches all reaching for the moon,

Its very dark but there is life here. 

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doxpeter’s photo https://instagram.com/p/BH3NsSeA-GD/

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Oshún is the orisha who confronts male supremacy by reminding men that without her, life is an unsavory void.

Diedre L. Badejo (via odofemi)

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Ego

Your touch is desirable, even more than your silence.

But your love is weak,

In every aspect this moment is a test.

Once you reached,

Your peace was broken.

The peace you thought you knew - gone

You are not obligated to hide your reality,

But if you must,

Please loosen your grip,

And release me,

Do it for,

Your peace.

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Shades of mahogany

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Relax, Reminisce, Reflect, Renew, Remember, Return.