Molara wood biography of abraham

I should add that the final push came in the guise of a job, as the Arts and Culture editor of Next, a newspaper being started in Lagos by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Dele Olojede. PC: What role has blogging played in your career trajectory? I always had more material than were usable in the traditional media to which I contributed, so blogging provided an outlet of sorts.

I once heard someone say they were trying to make books cool — and literary blogs, to a certain extent, make books cool. But really, for me, the more established forms of writing have always come first, and blogging is only supplementary. I had maintained a weekly Arts column in the Lagos Guardian for 2 years before I started blogging, so it surprises me that some only know me as a blogger.

It can be time-consuming however, and I sometimes feel this is time I could devote to my own fiction. But things are the way they are. PC: Do you think that for you writing in Diaspora is different from writing in Nigeria? While in England, my short stories set in Nigeria were mostly letters to the past, so you may detect a certain wistfulness in them, a certain nostalgia.

The few stories set in London were broadly concerned with the question of being black in a white world. Race was an issue, because I lived it every day — both in the positive and negative sense. Here in Nigeria - the most populous black nation on earth - the fact of my blackness is neither here nor there. I wait to see the impact, if any, on my writing from here on.

PC: How are you readjusting to life in Lagos? MW: I arrived and plunged immediately into the commute across the city to work on Lagos Island, sweating in the back of taxis forever stuck in traffic jams. A minute car journey can take three or four times as long. Lagos is chaotic, crowded, noise-polluted, sometimes difficult and — if observed encounters in the traffic are anything to go by — full of frayed tempers.

Magazines Books Culture. In all Magazines Search for user. Not yet a member? Submit Your Blog. Home Submit Your Blog Follow us. Username Password remember me Login Forgotten your password? I have a great empathy, a well of feeling for what women go through. Wood was a judge for the Etisalat Prize for Literature. Contents move to sidebar hide.

Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikiquote Wikidata item. The Indian countryside and the isolated lives of its inhabitants is relatable because Ms. Desai touches on the individual personalities that can be found in any metropolis or remote corner of the globe. The author laboured over this book for seven years, and it is obvious that she took pains to pick the exact words in order to describe the beauty and isolation of Kanchenjunga.

Beautifully written. Maybe it is because I was raised in a former British colony, or perhaps it is my reading of British authors that made this novel read a bit like coming back home. This book is for readers of classic British novels; it will transport you to school days and forced readings of Dickens, DH Lawrence and Kipling, to name a few.

Though it was inspiring to discover that one can succeed and prosper in a foreign country, it was sobering to learn that in this case it was at the expense of the native Aborigines. The sadness is greater because one realizes that this is a story that was repeated in most former colonies. Both books I thoroughly enjoyed because they were very different stories to molara wood biography of abraham one usually gets.

In a way, both are about wars and have very distinct and original characters. I loved the use of language in Burma Boy, mainly in dialogue and the comedy was very cleverly brought out. The Book of Chameleons has a philosophical aspect to it which I liked and the voice of the Chameleon was compelling in its descriptions and storytelling - very cleverly written.

The author succeeded in lacing nerve chilling war encounters with witty and poignant anecdotes. Season of Migration to the South by Kole Omotoso In his very popular Just Before Dawn, he wrote about the colonial experience and post-colonial transition in Nigeria. Season of Migration to the South is his own experiential comparison between Nigeria and South Africa, with a lot of other insights gathered from his travels through Africa, the West Indies and Europe thrown in as well.

It is a timely book given the current state of transition in South Africa. The encouraging tone of the book coming from someone with a vast travel experience will be a good antidote to the fashionable cynicism and depression of commentaries about Africa. Osondu It was a cruel, gray, typical upstate New York winter.

Molara wood biography of abraham

I was teaching in a small college in the outskirts of the city. And of course there was the sprawling Onondaga cemetery where I once counted ten tombstones with the name Muldoon as the bus crawled past. One cold gray day, while on the Centro bus, I opened The Autobiography of my Mother and began to read. Suddenly a burst of tropical sunshine exploded in the bus, I was suffused with warmth and wonder and gratitude.

One reads books and says, this reminds me of this other book, only Jamaica Kincaid reminds you of Jamaica Kincaid. Wumi Raji Niyi Osundare seems to exercise an unusual control over his moods. Inrising from his hospital bed, following an attack with axes, cutlasses and cudgels by as yet unidentified individuals, the Ikere born poet launched a collection in which he weaved love songs to the moon.

The collection contains love poems all through, and this, for me, is totally surprising. Surprising because Osundare is normally reputed to be a political poet and, as has just narrowly escaped death.