For the highly prolific azemezi, literary success is a spiritual calling. mayabinyam reports
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Last year, long before You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty’s publication, Michael B. Jordan’s production company optioned the book’s film rights for six figures. Because Emezi’s writing is personal, and because they speak frankly about their finances, critics have sometimes accused them of sounding arrogant. In person, though, lines that might swell with gravitas on the page are uttered like quotidian statements of fact.
Emezi slipped easily into fantasy. Fairies populated their backyard, and animals spoke to them at length. Still, a darkness shrouded them; they had meltdowns and frequent nightmares and felt a desperate and inexplicable desire to go home, even though they were, seemingly, living in the only home they had ever known. In their journal, they narrated their life from a series of alternate perspectives. When they were 16, they moved to the U.S.
Ogbanje are not commonly understood to live past puberty. Nor are they thought to name themselves; the designation is usually ascribed by a community. Emezi recognizes that some Nigerians won’t believe them, that people will accuse them of instrumentalizing Igbo spirituality to appeal to a western audience that’s none the wiser.
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