Author: Withchude

At least with those two characters for example the story began with his desires you know which is like what what does this man want. I knew I always wanted to write a story about this character who has a little child and

The writer I admired once said in a workshop, “Don’t think your readers are idiots.” I think that is the biggest mistake you’re going to make. This means that the people who are reading your books are intelligent people. So, once you come

After I finished this book I was like I need to start therapy. I remember telling my writer friends that writing actually does help a lot in terms of dealing with things but therapy is better. I remember writing like Mother’s Love and

I’ve been thinking we actually live in a don’t ask don’t tell kind of reality and around the time I was writing a lot of these stories I had a different reality at least a different social economic reality. For me, my main

In 2017/2018 my husband and I had financial issues. We were in debt and everything. So, when I attempted suicide on June 6, 2018, I didn’t die. They took me to about three different hospitals but in the last hospital when I woke

CHUDE: Why do you think that don’t ask don’t tell that is now defining for the queer community in Nigeria which is a flourishing Community at least on some level is there something in our cultural makeup that leads to that? ARINZE: I

CHUDE: Why has “The Joys of Motherhood” stood out so powerfully for you as a writer? ARINZE: One of the things that happened to me when I went to get my masters was like I was living in this place with a lot

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