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Ainehi Edoro (born 11 December) is a Nigerian writer, critic and academic. She is the founder and publisher of the African literary blog Brittle Paper.
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There is nothing as rewarding as being inspired by my students and their work, which happens on a daily basis.
As every blogger knows, the bread and butter of good sites is great content. If you write things that people love, they will come to the blog.
As a blogger, you learn to deal with criticisms and insults.
A bestselling novel is like any good product. If it’s good quality, and it’s backed by good marketing, it’s a sure-banker success.
Social media and on-site interaction with readers can never be too much. It’s something that one has to keep building.
Social media is essentially having access to people’s curated collection of what they think is the best of the best from the web. It’s a wealth of blogging content and ideas.
I want African writers to sell millions of copies, make good money, and live off their work. This is how publishing industries are nurtured—when they are able to tap into the pulse of mass culture.
It’s an honor really for someone to write something and decide to share it with our readers.
I publish Brittle Paper so I can tell anyone who cares to listen what I find remarkable about African writing.
A blog is not a newspaper. If you want bare, unsullied facts, go read a newspaper.
There is an unprecedented global interest in African writing. As a result, my readership is growing in leaps and bounds.
Creativity is seeing opportunity where no one else did. It is finding magic in the humdrum of the everyday and the familiar.
Readers want to be excited about African literature, especially after decades of being told that African literature is little more than a political and cultural manual for African life.
Literary critics might claim that they know why Shakespeare became Shakespeare, but the truth is they don’t. If you asked me how a book becomes a classic, I’d say it’s a matter for the gods.
I want African writers to find inspiration in what Africans want to read not what they should read or what will save them or educate them or edify them.
Blogging is a totally different beast. When I realized that my training on writing research and conference papers did not really translate into blogging, I had to learn writing all over again. That was challenging!
Brittle Paper is hard work. It takes its toll—given that I am also in the thick of writing a dissertation. But I love blogging. It’s as simple as that.
...I don’t let the fear of getting into trouble decide what I write or don’t write.
I see African literature taking the lead in reinventing conventional forms of storytelling. Europeans may have invented the novel, for example, but they are currently as confused as everybody else about what digital and social media technology means for literature.
African literature has not always been reader-driven. For Achebe to write with a straight face that a novelist is a teacher, you know we are dealing with a literary culture where the reader doesn’t really count for much.
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