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“To carry our Nigerian memories like tattoos.”
Review on https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/61444775 of “Suspended in Vast Plain” by Judyta Szacillo. She wrote one hundred and seventy reviews and hundreds of ratings for GoodReads. Her picks are books on history - she is a medieval historian with a PhD (Queen’s...
Uphill from White House
I keep breaking the ten-to-four curfew that Bialy imposed on himself and tries to involve me. He says that walking under the scorching African sun in extreme temperatures will give heat shock, stroke, or worse. He talks like a father, an ageing, compulsory father. So,...
White House in Yola, Adamawa
The University guest house is called White House, its walls glare white, whiter than the walls of the houses in town, and the boy’s name is Innocent. He is a cook and serves us the same meal over and over, hard beef with yam in a thick, spicy sauce. "Yam and yam,...
Why? How? in my interviews
I talked about my book “Suspended in Vast Plain” with four superb and very friendly hosts from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida and Connecticut. Anybody can find the interviews and watch and get a feel of the premise and theme. I love to talk about it, and I am...
My Week in North Carolina
I fell in love with North Carolina some thirty years ago. The reason was - the Outer Banks. In life, sometimes somebody brings one lover to another. National Geographic made my love affair with NC possible. An article depicted a string of barrier islands and spits...
Forty Years Have Passed
A memoir should be at least half true and, in another half, interesting, engaging, even fascinating. A person who has already read Suspended in Vast Plain (and prefers to remain private) shared with me this succinct conclusion. And I relayed it in the interview about...
Truth in memoir
I warmly welcome fans and aficionados of books, story-telling, and especially memoirs. Now, the blog is open. I want to share my thoughts and listen to your response in the blog. You perhaps already found out about me from the back cover of my book, Suspended In...