{"id":24717,"date":"2023-01-09T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/?p=24717"},"modified":"2023-01-09T22:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T21:24:02","slug":"ten-questions-with-elohor-egbordi-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akefestival.org\/archive\/ikoyi-2019","title":{"rendered":"IKOYI, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ikoyi, 2019. Typical Nigerian weather in October. It\u2019s sunny, cloudy, and rainy. Keke from Obalende to Ikoyi. I want to become a writer of books. I have come to see writers, painters, musicians, doctors, booksellers, lawyers. I have come to listen to people talk about art. Art and politics. Art as activism. Art for art&#8217;s sake. Bernadine Evaristo is a Booker Prize Winner. I see my predecessors: Chika Unigwe, Jennifer Makumbi, Helon Habila. I see\u00a0 Yosola, Ijapa, Xaron, Damian, Desmond. The sky is full of possibilities.\u00a0 Grey Matter and the in-betweens. The speakable and the unspeakable. Slavery, genocide, colonialism, misogyny, homophobia, migration, feminism, gender. Mona Eltahawy is saying fuck the patriarchy! My friend questions things. Why is nonbinary in-between? The confessional generation. The Long and Short of the Short Story.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I make friends. We wander around the different halls. We browse the pop-up bookshop. We buy books. We get our books signed. We take pictures. We paint our faces. There\u2019s music. My friends are dancing and I don\u2019t know how to dance. There\u2019s free beer in the fridge. I don\u2019t like beer. I have a crush. He is a writer of books. He is bald and has high cheekbones. My friend buys his book. I hold the book like it\u2019s mine. Like I have some part of him with me. Ayobami Adebayo. I want to tell her I love her book. The night is tender. The night is charged. I am hungry and not hungry. There&#8217;s smoke at night. I try to smoke a cigarette for the first time. I call the man I fell in love with in August. Hey, I say. Deja Vu. I feel the things he made me feel. Just checking on you, I say. Conversations with friends. Conversations with strangers. Toni Morrison is dead. We watch &#8220;The Pieces I Am&#8221;. I am finally going to read Toni Morrison. I am going to become a writer. I go home with my resolve. Some day, I will be a writer of books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bio<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jok Gwantang is a Nigerian writer and researcher with work previously published in Kenga.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikoyi, 2019. Typical Nigerian weather in October. It\u2019s sunny, cloudy, and rainy. Keke from Obalende to Ikoyi. I want to become a writer of books. 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