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📚”Wifey” by Fey Ugokwe

by Fey  Love that summer was a sizzling dizzy…like the everywhere Latin horns in their heads, back-kicks of spiced rum and hookah, and sloppy mouthfuls of scotch bonnet-kissed doubles…but his sin was too close, running them down in the high, chafing both worlds in its heat… Read my novella, “Wifey” by Fey Ugokwe, at Amazon.com or your fave online bookstore:  https://www.amazon.com/Wifey-Fey-Ugokwe-ebook/dp/B00BZ1NYZG/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?nodl=1&keywords=wifey+fey&dplnkId=67597b8b-2af6-4e06-be15-40fdeaf71d40  http “A powerfully written exploration of the rites of power.” -Kirkus Reviews, kirkusreviews.com Featured on ABC-TV (“Chronicle”, WCBV-TV 5)

Beach Reads Island-Style

     📸IG: @ambi_reads by Fey  🎥:   @feyugokweesq 🇬🇧🇬🇾🇳🇬🇺🇸 🌎:  https://linktr.ee/feyugokwe.esq Hey, man!!🏝 June may have jumped (see what I did there?😂), but imo every month should be #readcaribbean month—we’re a people, not just a moment. So *do* make sure to add our works to your virtual or irl bookshelf as the summer rolls on! Here’s what I wrote about one of our cool Caribbean bookstagrammers on IG (whose recs will be sure to keep your beach reads well-covered): 🏝Now, what’s better for your juicy beach reads list than pages full of sweeping Caribbean imagery or winking intrigue? As you soak up summer🌞into your skin, soul✨, consider adding these #readcaribbean recommendations from another book bestie, 🇹🇹Trini’s 🇹🇹@ambi_reads!👏 A fierce list—also featuring 🇹🇹Trinidadian authors. Well done!!💃🏽#caribbeanreads

🎨The Curator of Curaçao

              🎥IG: @theonlybagirayouknow by Fey  🎥:   @feyugokweesq 🇬🇧🇬🇾🇳🇬🇺🇸 🌎:  https://linktr.ee/feyugokwe.esq Caribbean Heritage Month has brought with it the whirling richness that is the cultural diversity throughout the Caribbean nations/we peoples of Caribbean heritage—and our captivating, creative works. Here’s my 6/20 Instagram post on one of🌴our amazing artists, from a seemingly magical island just off the coast of my Mum’s native South America—but also nestled in the geographical Caribbean itself:  #Art.🎨It’s mixed up in living without breathing itself, can lure & reel & haunt without hunting…and storytells histories & moments & movements without a word well-placed, or misplaced, or pinned. It’s a reality play, played out in flecks & glints & visual whispers…It is what it is what you *perceive* it is. And it is all a magic✨.  This #CaribbeanHeritageMonth, I salute the truly keen & prolific #Caribbean visual artists amongst us, like se

Caribbean Heritage Month Wines Up to Wind Down

              📸IG: @orlandospringbreakfast   by Fey  🎥:   @feyugokweesq 🇬🇧🇬🇾🇳🇬🇺🇸 🌎:  https://linktr.ee/feyugokwe.esq Yes, *is* true—Caribbean Heritage Month has only one-and-a-small-piece weeks of wine💃🏽 remaining, so get out there and enjoy the truly 🔥 ongoing festivities if you’re a fellow Caribe/lover of the same. *All we* family under one palm tree🌴  —no matter what your flag(s) of heritage! Here’s my 6/2 🎥Instagram post about this truly historic🎉moon: 🥳Yes, man!! June, by official government proclamation, is 🥁Caribbean Heritage Month here in the 🇺🇸States (📸IG: @orlandospringbreakfast Follow them on IG!)! It’s time to commemorate & celebrate the dazzling contributions that people of our vast Caribbean diaspora have made, to this wondrous, welcoming nation. During the past few years, we’ve accelerated, at warp drive, our representation at all levels of society—particularly in prominent government & corporate positions. And, there’s never a shortage of u