Nna-anyi: This will definitely not be a long letter, especially now that I am writing to you inside the earth of the ancestors. I like my things short and sharp like Things Fall Apart, not long and heavy for I’m not in the mood to write War and Peace of Leo Tolstoy. A fat book does not a writer make. Fatness in books is like fatness in humans – it only advertises a lack of form. The critics would have us believe that this life is one long epistle in…
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