The Coo of a Blue-Plumed Bird

I just did an interview with The Republic, my first in three years. It is a long one, but the questions by the journal’s associate

I wrote this months ago and forgot to post it. My summer started with Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness, a film that I find below

Then a month later, on another flight over an actual sea, the Mediterranean, I almost wished I had not boarded the plane.

Every time I share the story of how I started writing, I list my major steps and omit, sometimes forget, some small but nurturing moments.

A thread of coincidences: a film ending from my late ‘90s childhood, a song from a talk show late last year, a magazine article minutes

Professor Nnadozie Inyama taught us “African Fiction” in my third year at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 2012-13. It was a straightforward course, with