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OluTimehin Adegbeye

Othering correspondent

Mission

I write about what divides us, in order to discover what unites us.

Now

For the next few months, I will be exploring death, touch, voice, community and place as shared, yet differentiated, human experiences.

OluTimehin Adegbeye
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Colourful illustration with tones of blue, pink and mustard yellow showing people flying on books.
A brief investigation of a certain history of humankind
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3 min 25
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Photo of a busy street with a market on it, colourful merchandise hanging everywhere. It's shot with a long shutter speed so the people are blurred
People like me don’t miss the outside. Here’s why
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10 min 21
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How coronavirus is changing power and politics worldwide
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Colourful illustration with lots of trees and abstract shapes of a women entering inside a book and another one sitting.
Buchi Emecheta shows us you can never be alone when you belong to a community
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7 min 5
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Photograph taken at night with people gathered together or standing around a small counter lit by a precarious lamp. The ground is sandy and on the brown wall in the back, the words New York city with a logo are painted in white.
Why social distancing won’t work for us
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7 min 56
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Orange, blue and yellow illustration of a pregnant figure in grey sitting on the ground, arms behind her, surrounded by shapes of grey books, some standing, with doorways running through them, and staircases running down into other books, some fallen.
Read along with our bookclub, The Other Shelf
OluTimehin Adegbeye
3 min 5
OluTimehin Adegbeye
Hand-drawn headshot avatars of four women smiling, in a collage of pink, green and blue rectangles
Should women even want equality? And three other pressing questions for feminists today
Multiple authors
9 min 76
A couple all dressed up is standing in front of a grey background, ready to be photographed. Smiley people are gathered to watch them.
If we value life so much, why do we care so little about the people who carry it?
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6 min 8
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Bookmark this! Slightly racially biased triangles – and six other reads for Black History Month
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1 min 3
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