Category: Women Writers who Influenced Us
Book Review: Chimamanda Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck
In The Thing Around Your Neck, a collection of short stories written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the reader is exposed to characters that are many things, including a surprise to those who have been limited to a Western literary interpretation of Nigerian culture. Adichie insists on considering the wide variety of Nigerian stories to be [...]
On Reading Jamaica Kincaid
Reading changes lives. It changes the way we view the world. It changes how we view ourselves. I was first introduced to Kincaid’s writing as an undergraduate when I was assigned a reading of My Garden [Book], a contemplative and intimate discussion on the relationship between gardener and garden. Within the first few pages of [...]
Favorite Women Authors: Tracing Our Feminine Literary Influences
I have been writing for as long as I can remember. But it’s only lately that I’ve realised how much my writing has been influenced by the great women of literature who have gone before me. Growing up my favourite authors were women – Enid Blyton and Jenny Oldfield – and their characters still mean [...]
