The trouble with good women
I was angry. One evening in September 2019, I sat in a dimly lit screening room at the Kaduna Book and Arts Festival, watching 4th Republic, a Nigerian political drama. The room was packed, about two dozen of us, all absorbed in the film’s story about the corruption and chaos that often come with Nigerian elections. At […]
What fiction does
Hanna Adebowale had once been called the voice of a generation. People said it in glossy magazines, in keynote introductions, and on long, sentimental Twitter threads. By thirty-five, she had three bestselling novels, one honorary doctorate in Literature, and a quote from her second book etched into a mural outside the British Library. She had […]