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‘Every Word Has a Function.’ Chinonye Otuonye’s First Draft

February/March 2021First DraftInterviews
Associate editor at The Republic and author of ‘Anti-Racism Beyond the West’, Chinonye Otuonye, believes ‘Editing isn’t simply about taking away words or sentences and adding new ones.’ ‘It’s ultimately about structure and clarity.’  Our questions are italicized. What books or kinds of books did you read growing up?  This is an interesting question mostly because I feel like it implies that I grew up. I mean we’re always growing and in that sense, I feel like th
 

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