Say You’re one of them
Oct 18th, 2009 |
In 2005, Uwem Akpan’s first short story, “An Ex-Mas Feast,” was published in The New Yorker’s Debut Fiction Issue, signaling the arrival of a breathtakingly talented writer.
Through the sanitized windows of our televisions and newspapers, the truth about the pervasive poverty and violence that exists in so many African nations comes only in fits and [...]