![]() ![]() I was writing a lot of short stories at the time and I wanted to see if I could control the reader’s visuals instead of people imagining what the short story looked like. You’re also a video artist, does the visual nature of it shape your writing? I think speculative fiction does a lot more work when it comes to building worlds – that was why I started reading in the first place, to escape. I’m always like, science fiction writers. It’s awkward because I write contemporary literary fiction so people are always asking me what I’m reading. I still read mostly speculative fiction, fantasy and sci-fi. ![]() Interestingly I don’t read contemporary literary fiction now. I started writing at the same time I started reading. I used to make these little books when I was in primary school. We spoke to her widely celebrated book, which tells the tale of young Nigerian girl Ada and her fractured consciousness to explore multiple identities, her writing process and the angst of ’embodiment’. Nigerian author and video artist Akwaeke Emezi freshly landed on the literary scene with her debut autobiography Freshwater this year. ![]()
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