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Sarah Ladipo Manyika on Books

born 1968 Nigeria

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I write for myself and anyone else who enjoys a good story and is eager to read about characters that are still underrepresented in literature.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

A book reads us as much as we read a book.

The peripatetic nature of my childhood compounded my teenage sense of not quite belonging, nudging me ever closer to books in an on-going search for home.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

I think as I grow older I am more interested in what happens in the next stage of life. And I’ve been reading a lot of stories about older men.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

Now the books are arranged according to which characters I believe ought to be talking to each other.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

I’ve been surprised by how many young people as well as people who are not from the African Diaspora have found this book an inspiration and a comfort.

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sarah Ladipo Manyika (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.