by Paula Willie-Okafor
The screenplay is by the filmmaker and the novelist. Singer Niyola makes her film debut as the lead.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Paula Willie-Okafor is a staff writer at Open Country Mag. She is a student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she is custodian of The Writers’ Community (TWC). Her writing has appeared in Kissing Dynamite Magazine and Praxis Magazine.
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by Paula Willie-Okafor
The Belgian awards, which seek to improve cultural diversity in the country, honoured the Eritrean Ethiopian novelist and curator for founding a literary festival and a writing academy for refugees.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
Ukamaka Olisakwe’s novels, including the latest Ogadinma, narrate womanhood in Nigeria. Last year, she started a magazine, Isele, named after her artist grandmother.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
“Perhaps, all I have tried doing in the collection is to track our proclivities for love and hate, intimacy and violence, solidarity and treachery,” the writer and academic said.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The famed writer’s novel, banned in Egypt and in several Arab countries, comes out in English.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The forthcoming book “traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance,” who “are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city’s dark energy.”
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The Ghanaian and Armenian American writer’s debut has been praised for its lyricism.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The book has been described as “playful, frightening, shocking,” one that “will make you think, or make you laugh.”
by Paula Willie-Okafor
With Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around The World, Retold, the Nigerian British writer reinvents centuries-old love stories from West Africa, South Asia, and ancient Greece.
by Paula Willie-Okafor
The activist and writer’s second novel is “a profound and tender portrayal of the connections we forge to survive the fate we’re dealt.”
