Sharon Dodua Otoo first rose to prominence nearly a decade ago when her first and only short story in German won the most prestigious award in the language.
existentialism
Confrontations: The Function of Black Female Rage
Confrontations asks us to question why our anger must be ‘productive’ rather than ‘destructive’. It asks what happens to the women possessed by an innate anger that refuses to be subdued.
“I wanted to write about how we might have evolved without white hegemony”: A conversation with Okezie Nwọka
Okezie Nwọka on what inspired God of Mercy, the difficulties of duality, and adapting Igbo language and culture for the foreign page.
Black Moses is a damning portrait of Congo-Brazzaville
Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, this is a cynical coming-of-age story that zeroes in on corruption in 70s and 80s Congo-Brazzaville.