Petina Gappah

This is one of my favorite projects this year. My publisher Faber asked me to do an introduction to their republication of A WREATH FOR UDOMO by Peter Abrahams. I am thrilled that a new generation of readers will enjoy this lost classic and am honored to have been part of it. https://t.co/NmcA0Xnv0O

Petina Gappah

Happy new year! I hope that you all had a joyful and healthy start to the new year. Alas, my Kisimisi plans were disnyongorwad by Covid. On bright side, for Xmas, Kush gave me a Black Panther graphic novel by @Nnedi Okorafor and Stephen Fry’s riotous take on the Greek myths. https://t.co/GhLKVwS6j6

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Petina Gappah

SAITO: I’ve been waiting for someone. COBB: From a half-remembered dream. SAITO: Cobb? Impossible. We were young men together. I’m an old man. COBB: Filled with regret. SAITO: Waiting to die alone. Christopher Nolan’s brilliant INCEPTION is also about the loneliness of ageing. https://t.co/ng4pgyZ3Zt

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Petina Gappah

Within seconds of each other, @drnmatara @MandazaDouglas and @SirChapeyama got the answer right. It's THE SECOND COMING by WB Yeats, from which Chinua Achebe got his iconic title THINGS FALL APART. It's central to my Achebe translation! Three books coming your way, good sirs! https://t.co/zQuzl0KDAX https://t.co/eRgC4mqfOg

Petina Gappah

As a firm believer in human rights for their own sake and as a public good, I was extremely outraged by Michael Ignatieff’s book, “Human Rights As Politics and Idolatry” when I first read it in 2001. Reading it again, 20 years older, I agree with so much of his thinking. https://t.co/n4pFE604mm

Petina Gappah

A book by a fellow African that I admired and loved, and that inspired and elevated my own writing was Damon Galgut’s IN A STRANGE ROOM. There are few writers I admire more. He has just published his latest book. I can’t wait to delve into THE PROMISE. https://t.co/J96bnqaouS

Petina Gappah

I am your number one fan!! This is my cue to reread MISERY, the best Stephen King novel ever. True story, I watched the movie on my own one night in 1991 at 7 Arts, Avondale and walked back to the UZ by myself, in the dark, starting at every sound, my heart pounding like mad. https://t.co/BHqy2XuS3P

Petina Gappah

Some of my favorite reading memories with Kush-Kush as a baby involve him inserting his teeny finger with great excitement into THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR. And trying to eat the book! Eric Carle, thank you for your gift, your genius and for the memories. https://t.co/F0zW01tlxR

Petina Gappah

RT @brittlepaper: ICYMI, Namina Forna's THE GILDED ONES, a feminist, West African-inspired fantasy that follows the journey to self-empower…

Petina Gappah

A book by a fellow African that I admired and loved, and that inspired and elevated my own writing was Damon Galgut’s IN A STRANGE ROOM. There are few writers I admire more. He has just published his latest book. I can’t wait to delve into THE PROMISE. https://t.co/J96bnqaouS