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b. 1993
Idza Luhumyo (born 1993) is a Kenyan short story writer, whose work explores Kenyan coastal identities. In July 2020, Luhumyo was announced as the inaugural recipient of the Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award.
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Yes, that’s what I mean. How I like to think about it is that it’s helped me write for the eye, and not just for the ear.
They motivate me to keep the faith, to keep pursuing the ideas that interest me and, more importantly, to get my work out there.
Thank you. It is thrilling. I’m glad that the story continues to resonate with people, but I certainly did not see it coming. So it’s a wonderful surprise!
Yes, I see how it is possible for the story to have multiple interpretations. I have heard it called ‘layered’ on numerous occasions and I suppose that’s part of what allows this multiplicity of interpretations.
I’m working on a longer project at the moment. We will see how that goes. Thank you for having me.
Yes The characters, for example. The only one I had at the outset was Pili. But the rest came about as she went about her world, so to speak.
Dabbling in screenwriting helped me think a little differently about stories, especially with respect to how one goes about externalizing the internal.
I would say it’s about power. Everyone has it, and some have more of it than others for sure, but everyone’s always using however much of it they have or can access to various ends
Yeah, that was a coincidence. What I mean to say is that it is not what I had in mind from the outset.
Exploring that aspect bogged down the story. I wanted it to be about Pili, but introducing the aunt made it about the aunt and Pili. I also wanted to start the story as close to the end as possible, so as not to lose the momentum.
We certainly can extrapolate and have it speak to bigger themes about Western validation, as you said, but it is also a commentary on human nature. We tend to become (more) interested in things/people once we have seen that we can benefit in some form.
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