I Hate Traveling. I am Traveling Anyway.
My ideal mode of transportation is teleportation. I would like to close my eyes in Lagos and open them in Seoul, my suitcase standing gallantly beside me. No airport, no security line, no sixteen hours spent sitting upright while different parts of my body slowly begin to hurt. Just Lagos, darkness, South Korea. I would […]
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 […]