Shambaland

When Love Unlearns Violence

Love as a philosophy of power, and its capacity as a transformative agent to heal communities, institutions and individuals

Oct 14 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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August 2025

Invoking Inanna: Everything My Grief Demanded

My Grief did not beg for understanding, it demanded everything. I sacrificed my mother for my salvation

Aug 24 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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Book Review: Dream Count by Chimamanda N. Adichie

Have you ever read a fictional story with a character that seemed so real, it's like a person you knew in real life had been transcribed onto a page and…

Aug 5 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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Book Review: Things They Lost by Okwiri Oduor

A review of the magical realist novel, Things They Lost, by the Kenyan writer Okwiri Oduor who was the recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing…

Aug 1 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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June 2025

You'll Love Again

To all the broken hearts. Radical love and compassion exists because you exist. The beauty and joy you believe in exists because you create it with…

Jun 25 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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Book Review: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

If limerence were a genre, then Tia Williams has mastered that element of romance. She has proved it in her 2024 novel, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

Jun 21 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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May 2025

Pain & Horror Films: How Our Fears Heal Us

In Pain & Horror Films, we unravel how suffering hides in plain sight—then transforms into the most unexpected kind of pleasure. From Alien’s parasitic…

May 12 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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April 2025

This Mechanical Flesh

A speculative meditation on embodiment, ritual, and the fragile power of belief, This Mechanical Flesh peels back the skin of being human—literally.

Apr 27 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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I Am The Harvest

A story for those who have ever been feared for being different, for tending what others discard, and for hearing the wisdom in whispers of leaves.

Apr 22 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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Black Is King, Wakandification & Black Capitalism

Wakandan Dreams. Colonial Ghosts. Heavy is the head that holds the Crown; hollow is the heart that stole the gold to weigh it down.

Apr 22 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts

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Coming soon

This is Shambaland.

Apr 21 • Twisia’s Twinkly Thoughts