Nigerian-British novelist and essayist in London. I write about diaspora storytelling, language, and belonging — the sentences we inherit and the ones we invent.
African writers have never won more British literary prizes. But a growing chorus warns the awards are quietly dictating what an African novel is allowed to be.
A wave of independent bookshops run by the children of African migrants is reshaping British reading — stocking the shelves their parents were never offered and their schools never taught.
