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Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi is the author of the memoir Dear Senthuran and the novels The Death of Vivek Oji, Freshwater, Pet, Bitter and the forthcoming You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty. In 2018, they were chosen as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35. Photograph © Adam Vo

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Poetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

Two Poems

Akwaeke Emezi

‘joseph uncle is ghost-quiet / the kind of man you can’t scream at’

Two poems by the author of Dear Senthuran.

Poetry | Issue 158 padlock
Poetry | Issue 158 padlock

what if mary auntie called me on my birthday

Akwaeke Emezi

‘i buy my own selling / spiels, i mean them all, i am so bored’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Guard / Dear Katherine

Akwaeke Emezi

An excerpt from Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran: a Black spirit memoir.

In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Akwaeke Emezi | In Conversation

Akwaeke Emezi & Halimat Shode

We talked with Akwaeke Emezi about their debut novel, Freshwater, a story of spirit selves known...

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Freshwater

Akwaeke Emezi

‘We came from somewhere – everything does.’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Who Is Like God

Akwaeke Emezi

‘I grew up thinking He was folded into her body, very gently, like when she folded sifted icing sugar into beaten egg white, those kinds of loving corners.’

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