Arinze Ifeakandu

Jun 17, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Logan February |Akwaeke Emezi |Olumide Popoola |Arinze Ifeakandu

Reading Lists These writers revolt against institutionalized homophobia and proclaim, “look, I am here and I will live" In a place where your very existence is threatened and your survival uncertain, every form of art should revolt and proclaim, “look, I am here and I will live.” In Africa, queer people are at risk of being lynched by mobs or killed. These acts are not just individually motivated but endorsed by the government, either overtly or covertly. An evidence of this is the recent...

Jun 14, 2024 | cheekynatives.buzzsprout.com | Arinze Ifeakandu

Send us a Text Message. In this enthralling debut collection of short stories by Arinze Ifeakandu, we explore stories of queer  intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria. God's Children Are Little Broken Things won the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize, as well as the inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize. It has also been shortlisted for other literary awards. Ifeakandu creates an emotive world.

May 11, 2023 | swansea.ac.uk | Arinze Ifeakandu

Described as ‘gorgeous…full of subtlety, wisdom and heart’ by Sarah Waters, ‘quietly transgressive’ by Damon Galgut and awarded the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things has established twenty-eight-year-old Ifeakandu as a vital new voice in literary fiction.