Panashe Chigumadzi author of Sweet Medicine and These Bones Shall Rise Again has written an important essay on writers, empathy and (black) solidarity politics. In this essay, she discusses the privileges that we Nigerians have. You may ask “what is…
Cameroonians in Rome denouncing the discrimination suffered by Cameroon’s Anglophone minority.CreditCreditPatrizia Cortellessa/Pacific Press, via LightRocket, via Getty Images Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie turned 41 on the 15th day of September and she had an article published in THE NEWYORK TIMES on…
At the Stockholm Forum on Gender Equality, held 15-17 April, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talked about “a powerful man in the media” who sexually harassed her in 1994. Below is the full transcript : When I was 17 years old, I…
Literary enthusiast, Victor Adedayo wrote a letter (published HERE – CLICK TO READ) to his friend Okechukwu, thanking him for recommending Daughters Who Walked This Path by Yejide Kilanko. Okechukwu has written back. Enjoy! Dear Victor, It would only be right…
When I was younger, my grandmother would make me sit on her lap and read stories from my Macmillan English Reader to her. I read Ali and Simbi, Edet lives in Calabar and Mr. Sade the Farmer. I also read…
Dear Okechukwu, The first time we met, you were holding a copy of Yejide Kilanko’s Daughters Who Walk This Path. You gushed about the book and told me how interesting it was. I just finished reading it and I want…
How I Discovered Books; If I am to be honest with myself, all my life I’ve suffered from one form of depression or anxiety about being depressed or an extreme form of mania, I can’t say when it started but…
Suit: Mae Otti, Lagos (Dior event, Los Angeles) My mother always dressed us well. Me in little girl dresses cinched at the waist, my brothers in suits and well-ironed shirts. To go out, she said, we had to “di ka…
I fell in love at a very young age. It was a love that consumed me so much, a love that affected everything I would become. It was not the love of a person, it was the love for books….
My daughter, Yasmin died of an epileptic seizure in her flat in London in November 2011. People might wonder why in my quest to keep her memory alive I would involve myself in the promotion of creative writing. I choose…
