Those Who Create Desire an Audience: A Conversation with Darlington Chibueze Anuonye, by Anthony Chibueze Ukwuoma

Those Who Create Desire an Audience: A Conversation with Darlington Chibueze Anuonye, by Anthony Chibueze Ukwuoma Interviews [email protected] Tue, 11/28/2023 - 15:31 Darlington Chibueze Anuonye and his mother, July 2005, on the occasion of Anuonye’s primary school graduationDarlington Chibueze Anuonye, a writer and the nonfiction editor of Ngiga Review, is known by many writers and readers of African literature as a literary conversationalist. A doctoral student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Anuonye serves as a research assistant at the African Poetry Book Fund. He is the curator of Selfies and Signatures: An Afro Anthology of Short Stories, co-editor (with Ezechi Onyerionwu) of Daybreak: An Anthology of Nigerian Short Fiction, and editor of the international anthologies of writings Through the Eye of a Needle: Art in the Time of Coronavirus and The Good Teacher: A Collection of Essays in Honour of Isidore Diala and Samuel Anthony Itodo. His current project, Unbound, an anthology of contemporary Nigerian poetry, which he is co-editing with Nduka Otiono, is forthcoming in March. Anuonye’s conversations, reviews, and essays have appeared in World Literature Today, Hopkins Review, Brittle Paper, New Black Magazine, Eunoia Review, and elsewhere. In this interview, Anuonye reflects on exercising intellectual freedom, drawing on his personal experiences and the life of his beloved fictional character. He also discusses... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'

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