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is an editor and writer. She is currently the Booker prize scholar at the University of East Anglia.
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is an editor and writer. She is currently the Booker prize scholar at the University of East Anglia.
OPE ADEDEJI
JULY 16 2021
OPE ADEDEJI•JULY 16 2021
Author of ‘Books as Ammunition: How I Found Solace in Rereading Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen’, Ope Adedeji, believes a common misconception about African writing is that it is only writing that explores heavy themes through a limited set of genres: ‘This misconception attempts to streamline what African writers can write and publish. It’s a Western definition, which amounts to gatekeeping, and is often held by people with publishing power.’
OPE ADEDEJI
MAY 17 2021
OPE ADEDEJI•MAY 17 2021
I couldn’t see writing in my future, despite leaving Nigeria for a creative writing course. Then I read Buchi Emecheta.