Excerpted from “The Carnivorous City”, a novel in progress. The office was off Olowu street, in a big two storey building that was a riotous warren of offices. It was the sort of building that made Lagos what it is; a city bursting at the seams with people. The...
During my 2014 June-July residency at Civitella Ranieri, every day provided new opportunities to learn not only from the vibrant culture of Umbria, but also from the various cultures of all the other Fellows. To me, culture is an inter-generational and...
I have an idyllic life for a writer, with the man I love on a remote Cornish farm, so my fellowship seemed under-deserved. I likened the process of moving my writing base from Land’s End to Civitella to moving apartments in Heaven. What I hadn’t reckoned on was the...
My experience at Civitella was a good shot in the arm. As if being there alone was not already enough for me, meeting those people there, those Fellows there, those exchanges of points of views and those shared good moments was amazingly enriching. As I reflect now, I...
