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About Lesley Nneka Arimah
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 13 October 1983 in London, United Kingdom) is a Nigerian writer. She has been described as "a skillful storyteller who can render entire relationships with just a few lines of dialogue" and "a new voice with certain staying power." She is the winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, the 2017 O. Henry Prize, the 2017 Kirkus Prize, and the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing.
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βA world where women must remain naked until they are married; there are complications.β
βThere needs to be something that matters to you, even if youβre inventing this impossible world filled with raffia babies.β
βSo itβs not motivation to continue, but reward for work already completed. Thatβs the most important thing to keep in mind, that the work comes first.β
βThere is nothing inherently wrong with not knowing as much as people think you should or not knowing everything. There is no need to feel any sort of shame.β
βSo why not be as deliberate in creating myth as those who came before us, so that those who come after us can better understand our concerns and our cultural obsessionsβ
βWhen I think of what literature can do, and I think of the ways that literature has changed minds and opened imaginations, I want to say that we African writers must centre the African gaze.β
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βFor too long, the voices and visions for our future have been provided, for the most part, by and from a culturally European (if not Eurocentric) perspective. However, there is change afoot. The works of Octavia E. Butler are becoming mainstream, and names like Nnedi Okorafor and Lesley Nneka Arimah are bringing much needed flavor to the narratives that help shape our future.β
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βWhen Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.β
About Lesley Nneka Arimah
Lesley Nneka Arimah (born 13 October 1983 in London, United Kingdom) is a Nigerian writer. She has been described as "a skillful storyteller who can render entire relationships with just a few lines of dialogue" and "a new voice with certain staying power." She is the winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, the 2017 O. Henry Prize, the 2017 Kirkus Prize, and the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing.