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Chukwuebuka Ibeh

‘My Early Reading Featured a Lot of Religious Texts’ Chukwuebuka Ibeh’s First Draft

Nigerian writer, Chukwuebuka Ibeh, says the reception in Nigeria for his debut novel, Blessings, has been delightfully surprising: ‘I was prepared for much more vitriol, but that hasn’t been the case. I’ve also been amused by the split responses to events in the book, with some people wanting much less of the same thing that others seem to want much more of.’
Chimezie Chika

‘Writing Is a Process of Thinking and Thinking Is Living’ Chimezie Chika’s First Draft 

Nigerian writer, Chimezie Chika, believes that fidelity to the quality of work is what makes an artist or artwork timeless: ‘I think art has a lot to do with quality—and I mean quality as substance: the quality of colour, the quality of light, the quality of strokes, the quality of mood, the quality of thought, and the quality of ideas. All great art possesses these qualities.’