Tag "Chinelo Okparanta"
The Piece About How We Are “Here, Queer And Speaking Up”
In one of the world’s most homophobic countries, new generation of writers are writing queer people into existence. In a write-up originally published on African Arguments, writer Munachim Amah talks
A Prayer From Chinelo Okparanta’s ‘Under The Udala Trees’
I just finished reading the riveting novel by Chinelo Okparanta. And after a story that filled me at once with sadness and hope, here’s the segment of the book that
Chinelo Okparanta Gets Candid About Her Novel, ‘Under the Udala Trees’
I first heard about Ms. Okparanta’s novel earlier this year and the title Under the Udala Trees struck me, mostly because the udala fruit is one of my favorite seasonal
RANTINGS OF A RANDOM (Gay) NIGERIAN (Entry 56)
I recently read two of Chinelo Okparanta’s novels, Under the Udala Tree and Happiness Like Water, and I was blown away, particularly with the way she explored lesbianism and lifted
