Category: Location

  • Nigeria – the setting and landscape of my story, but also a character.

    Nigeria – the setting and landscape of my story, but also a character.

    When I began to write my memoir, Oduduwa Crescent, I wanted Nigeria, the setting and landscape of the book, to be as well-drawn as any character.  My book is, in its essence, the story of my charismatic father, whose rise and fall is set against the tumultuous backdrop of post-colonial Nigeria – a time of coup d’états,…

  • The sounds of my childhood

    The sounds of my childhood

    Brown Girl in the ring by Boney M. Celebration by Cool and the Gang. Mamma Mia by Abba Night to remember by Shalamar Candy Girl by New Edition. ABC by the Jackson 5. Writing memoir evokes so much, the memories flood back with intensity. The familiar tunes of my childhood have been ringing in my…

  • The sounds of my memoir

    The sounds of my memoir

    Writing memoir evokes memories, visceral and palpable. The sounds, smells and tastes of my childhood have come flooding back which such clarity, I have often felt I was back home, in the Lagos of my youth, the Lagos of the 1970s and 1980s. Writing just a few chapters, these were some of the sounds that…