As you know, I self-published and while I’m glad I did it and I’m grateful for the reach Mad Woman has had…. I don’t think I’m ever self-publishing again. It was not an easy journey, but worthwhile, and I had an incredible support system.
This rare feat of gathering these complexities in Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Madagascar, Libya, Zimbabwe etc. and even in non-African states like Hawaii he pulled off, exhilaratingly so, in this collection that reminds us that no…
Now, the future is vast and open-ended and can be interpreted in any number of ways, but I decided to place some of the futuristic stories within the African and Igbo context.
When I am writing poetry, there is no stage version of me, neither is there a page version of me.
February is the month of love or Afro love, so, we are highlighting Kiru Taye as a teller of love stories. Kiru wanted to read
My female characters can choose what femininity and strength mean to them because they are people with their own unique interests and personalities, just like my male characters have their own different strengths and views on masculinity.
Writing it was inspired by an invitation from my mother. A little over a year after her funeral, on a cold January night, I was sitting on my couch in my apartment in Geneva, journaling, when I heard a familiar yet unexpected voice.
Set inside the ward at Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Yaba, situated in Lagos, a young nameless narrator unravels a chilling tale of beauty, sexuality, abuse and mystery.
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria’s societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pregnancy leave her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, she is sent to her aunt’s in Lagos and pressured into a marriage with an older man.
As we draw the curtains of 2021, clad in left-over pandemic and slow-downs, we are happy to be collecting a list of 30 African writers, in alphabetical order, who you should know in 2022.
As you know, I self-published and while I’m glad I did it and I’m grateful for the reach Mad Woman has had…. I don’t think I’m ever self-publishing again. It was not an easy journey, but worthwhile, and I had an incredible support system.
This rare feat of gathering these complexities in Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Madagascar, Libya, Zimbabwe etc. and even in non-African states like Hawaii he pulled off, exhilaratingly so, in this collection that reminds us that no…
Now, the future is vast and open-ended and can be interpreted in any number of ways, but I decided to place some of the futuristic stories within the African and Igbo context.
When I am writing poetry, there is no stage version of me, neither is there a page version of me.
February is the month of love or Afro love, so, we are highlighting Kiru Taye as a teller of love stories. Kiru wanted to read
My female characters can choose what femininity and strength mean to them because they are people with their own unique interests and personalities, just like my male characters have their own different strengths and views on masculinity.
Writing it was inspired by an invitation from my mother. A little over a year after her funeral, on a cold January night, I was sitting on my couch in my apartment in Geneva, journaling, when I heard a familiar yet unexpected voice.
Set inside the ward at Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Yaba, situated in Lagos, a young nameless narrator unravels a chilling tale of beauty, sexuality, abuse and mystery.
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria’s societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pregnancy leave her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, she is sent to her aunt’s in Lagos and pressured into a marriage with an older man.
As we draw the curtains of 2021, clad in left-over pandemic and slow-downs, we are happy to be collecting a list of 30 African writers, in alphabetical order, who you should know in 2022.
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