Interviews

Chiaka Obasi interviews Wale Okediran

A former president of Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Wale Okediran (WO) is a physician, writer and politician (He had represented his constituency in Nigeria’s Federal House of Representatives). He is the founder of Ebedi International Writers’ Residency, Iseyin, a winner of an ANA Prize for Fiction and a joint winner of the 2010 Wole Soyinka Prize for…

Geoffrey Gyasi Interviews Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

Our latest interview is by Geoffrey Gyasi, a writer, reader, poet and blogger at Geosi Reads. Here he is chatting with Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, a writer and professor of English. She talks about her career as an educator and about writing.   Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo was born and raised in Eastern Nigeria, but now lives in Lagos. Raised partially in a rural environment…

Chenjerai Hove interviewed by Moses Magadza

Chenjerai Hove says the practice of branding men ‘fathers of’ certain exploits is dangerous and can contaminate the minds of the world’s men and boys, entrenching patriarchy in the process. Chenjerai Hove, who now lives in exile in Norway and is noted for his deep sensitivity to gender roles, expressed this view in an exclusive and…