Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda

No Be from Hia (eBook, ePUB)

a gorgeous, evocative novel about identity and belonging

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

''Written with verve and feeling'' Daily Mail ''A writer set to make big waves'' Dionne McCulloch

Maggie and Bupe are cousins on either side of the world who couldn''t be more different. Zambian- Nigerian and Zambian-Jamaican, both yearn for their disbanded family to reunite. When Bupe leaves Brixton to go to secondary school in Zambia, she brings light and disorder to Maggie''s world. However, the girls are surrounded by dark family secrets such as the mysterious death of their late grandmother, and Maggie''s missing Nigerian father.

From the blazing streets of the Brixton riots, to multi-party elections in Zambia and glitzy Independence Day celebrations in Lagos comes a heart-warming story that breathes life into the modern-day result of postcolonial Africa and 20th Century migration.

''Heart-wrenching'' Ellen Banda-Aaku ''A voice to watch'' S.K. Perry ''A gift-from Zambia, Jamaica, Nigeria and the UK to the World'' Mubanga Kalimamukwento ''An engaging and memorable debut'' Zukiswa Wanner ''Finally a book that gives the post-colonial social experience of Zambians a language and illustrates the complex layers of identity'' Samba Yonga, The Museum of Women''s History (Zambia)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Legend Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781915643636
• Artikelnr.: 72456312

Autorenporträt

Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda’s short stories have featured in various pan-African publications, including ‘Short Story Day Africa 2018’ for Door of No Return, which has been translated into Portuguese for Brazilian  Journal Periferias, and Mozambique’s Involção e Outros Contos Para um Mundo em Crise. Her book No Be From Hia was selected as a Graywolf Africa Press finalist in 2019. It was acquired by South African publisher Black Bird Books after initial success in Zambia. In 2020, she participated in the inaugural online festival Afro Lit Sans Frontieres in which she interviewed women authors such as Leila Aboulela, Ayobami Adebayo and Tsitsi Dangarembga. She is an alumni of Curtis Brown Creative’s inaugural Breakthrough Course for Black Writers, and a Creative Writing Master of Arts candidate at Kingston University London. She was a judge for the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2022.