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.

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.
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.
It’s hard to believe that out of 50 translations of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, not one is in the novel’s mother tongue: Igbo.
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.