Politics scholar and author of ‘How to Write about Boko Haram’, Sa’eed Husaini, thinks it’s important to know how to write a ‘shit draft’. ‘Finish the full writing task first,’ he says, ‘no matter how unpleasant the initial output may seem, and then return to tidy up the mess.’
Our questions are italicized.
What books or kinds of books did you read growing up?
I suppose my earliest books were religious texts. I think having to memorize and recite passages early on
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