The Journal
Essays, craft notes, and the odd confession.
Longer thoughts that do not fit in a book, published when they are ready and not before.
Essay
On keeping other people's letters
What a shoebox of second-hand correspondence taught me about how we remember, and why I cannot stop buying them.
ReadCraft
Writing the thing left unsaid
Why the most important line in a scene is often the one no character ever speaks aloud.
ReadNotebook
A dry season in Ibadan
Field notes from the three months that slowly became my second novel, Harmattan.
ReadPlace
Belonging to nowhere in particular
On carrying two homes and being fully at ease in neither.
ReadLetters from the desk
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