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Epifania Amoo-Adare
May 30, 20181 min read
Un-Disciplined Love of Knowledge(s)
I refuse to be disciplined, you know what I mean: fixing myself in nitpicky niches of sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and...
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Akosua Biraa
Mar 26, 20181 min read
Wayfarer
I am the through-farer. I make things out of no-thing, sense out of none-sense, ways out of no-way & I-am-possible out of the impossible....
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Epifania Amoo-Adare
Feb 6, 20184 min read
Why, Do I Stutter?
Today I find myself reflecting on some notes that I scribbled down, six years ago, in a rage about my “invisibility blues”, to coin an...
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Akosua Biraa
Feb 4, 20185 min read
Dark Days Oracle
It was foretold by the Oracle that the dark days would come, when we—the Abassa sentinels—would have to lay down our glorious wings in...
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Akosua Biraa
Feb 3, 20185 min read
Truekind
Dimelda stood over the now tepid Aga cooker, staring blindly as the ladle rose effortlessly. It was forgotten, floating in a frothing...
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Akosua Biraa
Jan 4, 20181 min read
One Note Symphony
I am my own symphony pitched into a chorus of likeminded, you, scattered across the globe. It is with you that I take each small step in...
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Akosua Biraa
Oct 8, 20171 min read
Pity Party & Destinations Unknown
No one wants to hear my truth. Not even myself, as I wallow in it’s a pity, self-pity: Should I pity party or pity anyone who doubts my...
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Akosua Biraa
Sep 12, 20173 min read
Single
The dimly lit interior beckoned approvingly. Soft music, soft light. At the bar, Berto was efficient as ever, gliding gracefully to every...
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Akosua Biraa
Aug 30, 20171 min read
Stardust are WE
Look at me! Look at me! I may not be quint-essential beautiful but please do look at me w/ this hair that surely defies your gravity and...
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Akosua Biraa
Jul 30, 20171 min read
Settle Down Blues
I feel unhinged, adrift, cast out into a certain sea of surety, set loose to be lost in place— in one set place of rest, where I rest,...
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Akosua Biraa
Jul 6, 20171 min read
‘cos this world ain’t enough…
So tonight, I’ll feel your pain resonate w/ mine from 4gotten days when I too really needed 2 jump off. But couldn’t, while you just did....
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Akosua Biraa
Nov 2, 20163 min read
Love Freedom?
It was cleaning day at the Fossil’s mansion and this was never a simple or easy affair. Everything, and I mean absolutely everything, got...
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Akosua Biraa
Oct 26, 20161 min read
This Us
This is Us: a brilliance of baffling biology - concrete shells replete w/ sparkling souls. This is Us: a massive miraculous mess of sizes...
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Akosua Biraa
Oct 26, 20162 min read
Abena-Izaura
The sand was almost warm, as it furled around Abena-Izaura’s toes – while its slightly abrasive essence buffed her tender soles. The...
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Epifania Amoo-Adare
Oct 12, 20162 min read
Manifesto for Living (RIGHT?)
REALITY CHECK. Always know that what you see and do is not real, in the sense that it is in fact a social construct. This means, there...
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Akosua Biraa
Sep 21, 20161 min read
4 Black Lives Matter
So much Love in the world lost to Black Lives that matter. Lest you 4get, we are in this inhumane mess 2gether w/ a common disdain...
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Akosua Biraa
May 19, 20161 min read
Shut Up & Write
Words stick in my throat, so narrow, fallow lying lined in my gullet unsaid and unsound unfound on any page known to both you and I....
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Epifania Amoo-Adare
May 14, 20161 min read
(Un)Learning
Learning is not something that happens in parenthesis; something you bookend between your head, four walls, a class period, a school...
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Akosua Biraa
Feb 25, 20162 min read
Ugly but Beautiful
Lucinda's face was nothing to write home about. In fact if you were to hear it said--by the townsfolk--she had a visage that would not...
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