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 my expectation, even after two viewings—first in the cinema, then on Disney+. My problems were two: the film’s dramatization of the multiverse is underwhelming and the film’s scope itself is […]
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Then a month later, on another flight over an actual sea, the Mediterranean, I almost wished I had not boarded the plane.
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I started a short piece on why I never thought I would write memoirs, but it became “Acts of Fear,” a small series where I share personal stories that scarred and grounded me.
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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. One such moment came ten years ago, in my first year at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, a full year before I knew I would even be a writer. It
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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 ago. This is how they gathered. I was surfing my Google Chrome recommendations, one piece opened into another, and I clicked on this listicle on badass Black women film characters.
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The Art Naija Series is a sequence of themed e-anthologies of writing and visual art exploring different aspects of Nigerianness. The first, Enter Naija: The Book of Places (Oct., 2016), focuses on cities in Nigeria. The second, Work Naija: The Book of Vocations (June, 2017), focuses on professions in Nigeria. Both anthologies were published by Brittle
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 a pile of novels to be read, mostly novels from the African Writers Series. I was 18, had newly decided to become a serious writer, and, although I did not
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“A thoroughly modern epic but with bones as old as time. This is a story of love and betrayal and madness and music that is all the more beautiful for its plainspoken poignancy. Yet there is prose in here that steals your breath away.” — The Gerald Kraak Prize, 2016 your life is a blooming
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I think it was on February 8 that I visited Centre for Memories in Enugu, a hub for Igbo history and culture staging an exhibition of images and reports of the Biafran War. I never came around to sharing the photos I took. I am doing so today, May 30, the 53rd year since the
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Today, April 15, 2020, my time as Deputy Editor of Brittle Paper came to an end. It is a position that I originated and used to expand the platform’s brand, improve its image, and in general successfully undertake major unprecedented projects in the African literary scene. I was asked to join as Submissions Editor by
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