Frances Ogamba Quotes

Nigeria

Frances ogamba is a Nigerian short story writer.In 2019, Ogamba's nonfiction piece "The Valley of Memories", exploring the way in which a woman feels a bodily connection with her deceased uncle, won the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction.Her short story "Ghana Boy", centring on the relationship between a young boy and his gang leader elder brother, was also shortlisted for the 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize.

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Random Frances Ogamba quote

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"All I did was keep hacking my axe at a wall that wouldn’t come down. I finally made the shortlist. The wall is down. Goal achieved."

"I loved the books I read as a child and I knew I definitely wanted to do this. But it was tougher than I thought. I took to reading a whole lot, and just falling and stumbling until it began to look beautiful. The ‘dibia’ is a long road of tedious work."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frances Ogamba (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.