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A. Igoni Barrett

‘My Forthcoming Novel Haunted Me for About Eight Years’ A. Igoni Barrett’s First Draft

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Nigerian writer, A. Igoni Barrett, is working on a new novel that picks up Furo Wariboko’s story four years after the events in his critically acclaimed debut, Blackass: ‘My forthcoming novel, Whyteface, haunted me for about eight years, though without my conscious awareness. It was only when I sat down to face the writing that I realized I’d been collecting, throughout those anxious years, all the bits and pieces I needed to exorcise myself.’ Read More...
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Ani Kayode Somtochukwu

‘Writers Have the Obligation of Imagining the Future That Must Be Achieved’ Ani Kayode Somtochukwu’s First Draft

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Nigerian queer liberation activist and author of And Then He Sang a Lullaby, Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, describes his writing as an expression of love for the African people: ‘I like to think of my writing as an expression of love for the African people, a commitment to our capacity for justice and liberty, an insistence on dreaming our freedom as an inevitable eventuality. I want to be an incendiary bomb. And I know that stories have that power.’ Read More...
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Ike Anya

‘I Wanted to Bear Witness to Life in 1990s Nigeria’ Ike Anya’s First Draft

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Nigerian public health expert and author of Small by Small, Ike Anya, believes there is a freshness and vibrancy to African storytelling: ‘This comes from the combination of a long history of storytelling through various mediums, a wealth of unshared rich material and a population of young people equipped with digital tools that have pushed us towards what I like to call an equalization of voice.’ Read More...
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