I made this video last year to sort of open up about my vision for Brittle Paper and what made me so passionate about African literature. From writing for you all right here on this blog, reading your comments and trying to understand your tastes and interests, I find that what readers want are writers and stories […]
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The Great God Heist — Review of Okey Ndibe’s Foreign Gods Inc.
The gods in Okey Ndibe’s second novel, Foreign Gods Inc., are playthings for the rich and the famous. They undergo the indignity of being stolen or exiled and then bought and sold like common articles of trade. Even Nietzsche, for whom gods were disposal beings, would have been scandalized by the idea of gods […]
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