Sometimes it really hits me how utterly this book is steeped in Igbo ontology, and how polarizing it's become because of that. I think it hides what it is in plain sight. #FRESHWATER
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Ah, my deitymother’s introduction, I love this passage! 
In an early draft of the book, she had her own 1st person narrative voice but then we integrated it into the story itself.https://twitter.com/chiefkenzo_/status/1250031145749819393 …
Snippet from one of my favorite pages 
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Those who know, recognize it immediately, which is perfect because they're who I wrote it for. The other responses? Whew! I've learned so much about readers through this, like which centers people are moving from.
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I'm always hella excited for other Nigerians to read my work, and the result is often a fascinating collision of things, Christianity and transphobia among them, because of the content and because of who I am publicly.
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The number of people who see my actual existence as a gimmick to make money from white people is...not that surprising. I can't relate because my center has nothing to do with humans, let alone whiteness.
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There's also the whole thing of how our African writers engaging with ontology or philosophy in their work must all be cis men, whose prose can be as opaque as they like because intellectuals, but are they seen as doing the most?
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Nothing like your own people to remind you that you're not 'supposed' to be taking up all this space and thriving at it with a center as deviant as this, but ei-yah. We move. THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI is out in a few months. http://www.akwaeke.com/the-death-of-vivek-oji …
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