EVENT: Book O’Clock Tweetchat With Ukamaka Olisakwe| 1st May, 5PM WAT
We're excited to announce that as part of our activities to mark our anniversary—#365DaysOfBookOclock , we will be hosting Nigerian writer, Ukamaka Olisakwe this weekend on a tweetchat about her latest book, Ogadinma.
Join us this Saturday, 1st May by 5PM (WAT) on Twitter, handle: @bookclockreview.
If you have read Ogadinma and would like to know the BTS and the writer's opinions on her book, you shouldn't miss this. If you haven't read it, reading the amazing Ukamaka as she tweets about her writing is something you shouldn't miss too.
Spread the word. Saturday. 1st May. 5PM. Twitter @bookclockreview. Ukamaka Olisakwe. Ogadinma. Be there!
About the book:
Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naive and trusting Ogadinma as she battles against Nigeria’s societal expectations in the 1980s. After a rape and unwanted pregnancy leave her exiled from her family in Kano, thwarting her plans to go to university, she is sent to her aunt’s in Lagos and pressured into a marriage with an older man. As their whirlwind romance descends into abuse and indignity, Ogadinma is forced to channel her independence and resourcefulness to escape a fate which appears all but inevitable.
About Ukamaka Olisakwe:
Ukamaka Olisakwe grew up in Kano, Nigeria, and now lives in Vermillion, South Dakota.
In 2014, she was named one of the continent’s most promising writers under the age of 40 by the UNESCO World Book Capital for the Africa39 project. In 2016, she was awarded an honorary fellowship in Writing from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2018, she won the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ Emerging Writer Scholarship for the MFA in Writing and Publishing program.
Ukamaka, a finalist for the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship, has had her works appear in the New York Times, Granta, Longreads, The Rumpus, Catapult, Rattle, Waxwing, Jalada, Brittle Paper, Hunger Mountain, Sampsonia Way, and more.
Her books include Eyes of a Goddess (2012) and Ogadinma (2020). She is currently working on her third book.
