In an essay published recently in The Guardian, award winning author of Homegoing Yaa Gyasi talks about her “writing space.” The essay opens with a story about her ordering a desk that never arrived. After a number of frustrating customer service calls and an hour of tears and trying to figure out why the absence of the desk […]
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British-Nigerian Erotica Writer Kiru Taye Opens Up About the Difficulty of Finding an Audience
When we take the likes of Chimamanda Adichie as the model of authorship, achieving success in writing can appear effortless. For the vast majority of writers, especially writers working on Africa-related narratives, things are a bit less seamless. Undergoing the challenges of writing a book, hiring an editor to clean it up, and getting the […]
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