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Chapter Two of Bodies of Water lands Friday. We spent nine days with the Volta fishing co-operative that now sets its own prices. No narration, no experts — just them.

New record out at midnight. Mixed in the same two-room flat, same lamp, same transformer. If you hear the street in it, that is intentional.

The Last Hour of Lagos Light is live. Mama Ify read every word before we published — that is the standard now, for every story on this desk.

Reading Cloth workshop, Kumasi, 19 September. Twenty seats, six looms, one very patient family. Bring nothing.

Three years of studio conversations this month. The thing nobody tells you: the best answers arrive after you put the recorder down. So I stopped putting it down.