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Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬
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Journalist, author, a writer's writer • SELF-CARE FOR GRIEF (8/3); THE LITTLE BOOK OF SELF-HEALING (11/9) @adamsmedia / @simonschuster • rep @ladderbirdlit

Atlanta + The World
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    Nneka M. Okona  🇳🇬‏Verified account @afrosypaella 14 May 2020

    This is the story I talked about working on for six months! For @atlasobscura, I wrote about Duchess “Charity” Quamino—an enslaved woman from Ghana who was a talented baker. She epitomizes creative survival.https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/duchess-quamino …

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      2. Nneka M. Okona  🇳🇬‏Verified account @afrosypaella 14 May 2020

        I need to shoutout a few folks. Thanks to my ever patient editor @AEwbank & illustrator @aeyeduh who created the truly ~beautiful~ images which accompany my piece. I appreciate you both.

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      3. Nneka M. Okona  🇳🇬‏Verified account @afrosypaella 14 May 2020

        There’s so much to be said about this piece and how it came to be that I honestly don’t know where to start! But I will say reporting this piece + the travel to Newport that pinged my curiosity absolutely changed me. And challenged me.

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      4. Nneka M. Okona  🇳🇬‏Verified account @afrosypaella 14 May 2020

        Most surprising was learning how integral chattel slavery was to colonial New England. People paint slavery as solely a Southern thing or problem—when as far north as Rhode Island (especially in the seaport city of Newport) immense wealth was built upon slave labor.

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      5. Nneka M. Okona  🇳🇬‏Verified account @afrosypaella 14 May 2020

        Prime example of how slavery permeates the history & legacy of everything in Newport—on Washington Square in the city center there’s Old Colony House. Rhode Islanders declared independence from England there in 1776. It’s celebrated annually. Enslaved Africans built that house.pic.twitter.com/8RMlUeSEHi

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      6. Nneka M. Okona  🇳🇬‏Verified account @afrosypaella 14 May 2020

        Traveling to learn more Black history in this country has not only has empowered me but given me hope. Within our history there is a blueprint for the future. You can ground yourself in words, thoughts & paths of our ancestors. Then start to configure a way forward.

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      7. Nneka M. Okona  🇳🇬‏Verified account @afrosypaella 14 May 2020

        I hope learning about Duchess Quamino, her life and her passion—and talent—for baking offers some light from the past. Stories like these are so important & underknown. I’m honored to have a small part in changing that. ✨

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      2. Britni Danielle‏Verified account @BritniDWrites 14 May 2020
        Replying to @afrosypaella @atlasobscura

        Congrats, twin!

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      3. Nneka M. Okona  🇳🇬‏Verified account @afrosypaella 14 May 2020
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        Thanks twin! 🤗

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      2. Evette Dionne‏Verified account @freeblackgirl 14 May 2020
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        A STORY. This is so well done, sis. Thank you for excavating history in this way.

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      3. Nneka M. Okona  🇳🇬‏Verified account @afrosypaella 14 May 2020
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        Thank you so much, sis! ❤️

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