December 24/January 25

Arinze Ifeakandu

‘My Writing Goal This Year Is to Follow My Creative Curiosities’ Arinze Ifeakandu’s First Draft

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Nigerian writer and author of God’s Children Are Broken Little Things, Arinze Ifeakandu, holds the Nigerian government responsible for the anxiety experienced by queer Nigerians in the country: ‘I believed that our ruling class was largely responsible, by entrenching such avoidable hardship, for much of the intimate fractures around us. And that the people’s (and the state’s) obstinate homophobia was to blame for what I considered the “nervous condition” of gay youth.’ Read More...
December 24/January 25First DraftInterviewsNigeria
Wayétu Moore

‘I Gave Myself Permission to Write a Black Villainess’ Wayétu Moore’s First Draft

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Liberian novelist and author of She Would Be King, Wayétu Moore, wants Africans to tell their own stories: ‘A recent book I read portrayed Africa as a uniform experience—overly simplified and stripped of nuance. It reminded me of why it is so important for Africans to tell our own stories, showing the plurality of our voices, our struggles, and our triumphs.’ Read More...
December 24/January 25First DraftInterviewsLiberia