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Q & A with Monique Kwachou on her writing process

 Samyra Manka’a discusses with Monique Kwachou, highlighting displacement, the Caine Prize Workshop & other projects. Your first book is a collection of poems titled Writing Therapy. Why the move to prose? Well, there wasn’t an official ‘move’. Poetry still comes easier to me, than prose. My first attempt at prose — the short story I wrote

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Afritude

The excerpt below, from Monique Kwachou’s short story “Afritude” [originally published in the Caine Prize anthology To See the Mountain and other stories] is part of #100DaysofAfricanReads (curated by @SisterKilljoy). The story relates how Elizabeth’s life changes the day she leaves the USA for a boarding school in Cameroon and eventually nine months become three

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