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So I finished FRESHWATER 💧 today. There's a whole lot to take in. Nine days of taking this book everywhere with me and squeezing it into my rare free periods; like bathroom breaks + lunch + before I close my eyes at night. What is intriguing about the book is that it is based on the author's realities - which makes it both scary and powerful. It's hard to believe that this is someone's reality.
I have followed Akwaeke ever since I found her FARAFINA story on ABA. I noticed the tattoo on her hand. I also remember being intrigued by her website and the stories there two years ago that I randomly goggled her to read more short stories and instead found an old 2009 interview of her with short hair and talks about wearing the traditional Indian dress and preparing for her wedding. Reading this book brought everything into perspective. This book is freedom. I can't imagine the kind of freedom @azemezi must be feeling now. Some things can never be understood with the minds eye. So we name them. Give them medical terms and load with drugs. But we forget that some people cannot be contained. Some people cannot be boxed or cornered. A friend mentioned that she thinks the book needs a sequel. I strongly agree. @ifesinachy I think the reason it was fast-paced especially at the end, like you said, is because this is not some fantasy, this is reality and it is the now and if you follow Akwaeke you'll know that the story has only just begun. Never before have I read a novel like this. Now, are you claiming your many selves or are you setting your many selves free? Are you living or are you merely existing? .
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"My mother draws closer now. I can see a red road opening before me; the forest is green on either side of it and the sky is blue above it. The sun is hot on the back of my neck. The river is full of my scales. With each step, I am less afraid. I am the brothersister who remained. I am a village full of faces and a compound full of bones, translucent thousands. Why should I be afraid? I am the source of the spring. All freshwater 💧 comes out of my mouth"
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This book is not the kind of book you read while doing other things. You prepare to read this book. You dedicate time to read this book. It's not an easy book. This book reeks of pain and bravery and things that can't really be understood with the human mind. That is why you can't read it while doing other things. You have to open your self and your mind to this one if not you'll miss the magic that is freshwater 💧. Akwaeke's writing is beautiful. Poetic and lyrical.
What are you reading this holiday?
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This is what happiness looks like. How do you spell gratitude and sheer joy? The Universe listens. It answers. Joy is @eloosunde telling you to send her a DM because you may have just won for yourself a copy of @azemezi debut book - FRESHWATER 💧. Excitement is being told the delivery man is downstairs. Joy is you rushing down without any care in the world and FINALLY holding this baby in your arms. I'm grateful for many things. One of which is how literature makes me sane + whole + calm. I can't wait to begin this journey of FRESHWATER. Thank you @eloosunde. You are light. 💡. Light. 💡. Light. I can't wait to hold your own book in my arms too.
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Biggest Fan...xxx
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It's been a busy week and when you have to study so hard, it begins to look as though you're missing out on all of life's happenings. And so when I had a five minutes break I caught up with CNA's Harvard Speech!
Our Favorite Woman recently gave a beautiful speech at Harvard University - Class Day - May 23, 2018.
From her opening lines where she shows mercy on a woman who announced her as Chimichanga (there will be no extending same mercy to the audience, she duly warned), this quote on BENDING TOWARD THE TRUTH AND THE IMPORTANCE OF LITERATURE is one of the many gems she released in her speech.
This means so much to me because I understand the World Best through STORIES. I encounter realities first through the pages of books. Yeah, so READ BOOKS! I could recommend a whole lot to you!
I'll be sharing some of them as time goes on. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says the wisest things!
The speech is 25minutes long and I urge you to watch it. Link in bio 👆! #TheAfroReader
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I enjoyed reading this article on @chimamanda_adichie in @newyorkermag.
I loved that it opened with Eghosa Imasuen's story about his mother and his struggle with his own writing - (Author of FINE BOYS) .
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. "She showed me a photograph in a magazine of a young woman with beads in her hair, and she said, Look at this small girl, she has written a book of horticulture, about flowers—you could do something like that..." .
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You bet his mother was referring to PURPLE HIBISCUS! .
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The article talks about Adichie's family, Igbo Language, her husband and a more emotional story of her father in the hands of Kidnappers. .
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Adichie is a force to reckon with. I'm happy that I get to experience her existence. But as seen in the article - As her subjects have expanded, her audience has, too, but visibility has its drawbacks. .
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Click on the 🔗 Link in my bio 👆 to read the FULL ARTICLE!
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In my book club @kaweafrica we are currently reading EFURU by FLORA NWAPA. We decided to read EFURU by Flora Nwapa because we think all Nigerians should read it. It's a classic and the first book to be published by an African Woman. For someone whose focus has been African Literature for the past three years I felt so embarrassed when people asked why I hadn't read Efuru. .
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Efuru is an easy read and discusses a whole lot of feminine issues which I can't wait to talk about at the next meeting.
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Something struck me in Page 14/15 of Efuru and that is the not too graphic but very powerful description of genital mutilation. .
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"You are the young wife, my daughter. You are beautiful, my daughter. I will be gentle with you. Don't be afraid". The woman went to the back of the house and there it was done. Efuru screamed and screamed. It was so painful. Her mother-in-law consoled her. "It will be over, my daughter don't cry".... .
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Shudders. The horror that is Female Genital Mutilation.
This poem by Warsan Shire is powerful yet disturbing and sad. And I hope that we can in one way, we part of the conversation.
Have you read EFURU by FLORA NWAPA? .
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I miss book blogging but I will be back after bar exams which has to be the scariest thing ever I guess.
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