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is a Nigerian writer with a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is also an artist in residence at the University of Bayreuth where she is working on a novel.
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is a Nigerian writer with a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is also an artist in residence at the University of Bayreuth where she is working on a novel.
ZAINAB OMAKI
MAY 20 2022
ZAINAB OMAKI•MAY 20 2022
Writer, PhD candidate and author of ‘Who’s Writing Who? Literary Cultural Appropriation and Ethnicity in Nigeria’, Zainab Omaki, thinks it is difficult to disagree with fiction: ‘disagree is a strong word… I finished Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji a few weeks ago. Gorgeous book, gorgeously written, but I was also surprised by how no one seems to mind that the characters are cousins, considering their relationship.’
ZAINAB OMAKI
FEBRUARY 8 2022
ZAINAB OMAKI•FEBRUARY 8 2022
Nigerian literature has always existed in the global space as ‘other’ literature, and writers often feel a moral responsibility to represent their ethnic cultures in the mainstream public space.