On Saturday 13 October 2018, I hosted Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Niger based author of Tina Shot Me Between The Eyes & Other Stories in an interview within the intimacy of Lettres d’Afrique at FBF2018. It is an uncommonly good collection published by the forward looking Amalion Publishing. Presented in a volume that is deceptively slim for its weight in terms of ideas, the collection brims with the lives of a colorful range of characters including a Hausa woman, a scholar, a self-described ‘classifactory aristocrat’ who must journey from the North of Nigeria all the way to Central Florida in the USA to find herself. She does find herself and after 29 years of repression in Hausaland, loose herself. Free at last to kick up so…[Lire la suite]
Borders Literature Online, octobre 2018.