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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Carnage of the Cameroons

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…

  • September 22, 2018
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • ESSAYS

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on being sexually harassed at 17

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…

  • April 20, 2018
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • ESSAYS

LETTER TO A FRIEND II (A REPLY) – OKECHUKWU ERINNE

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…

  • December 25, 2017
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • ESSAYS

My Book Affair – Chinyere Unique Nkemjika

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…

  • December 17, 2017
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • BOOK AFFAIRS

Letter To A Friend – Victor Adedayo 

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…

  • November 2, 2017
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • ESSAYS

My Book Affair – Romeo Oriogun

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…

  • October 28, 2017
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • ESSAYS

My Fashion Nationalism – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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…

  • October 22, 2017
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • ESSAYS

My Book Affair – Chiamaka Nwangwu 

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….

  • October 21, 2017
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • BOOK AFFAIRS

SERENDIPITY – Creative Writing, Yasmin and I (An Essay) – Hadiza Isma...

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…

  • October 18, 2017
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • ESSAYS

Infertility: Through Her Eyes

In the peculiar hierarchy of African households the only rung lower than a motherless child is a childless mother – Taiye Selasi, The Sex Lives Of African Girls I remember reading STAY WITH ME. I remember being half way through….

  • September 27, 2017
  • By Adriel Onwukwe
  • ESSAYS
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