Description
Chika Unigwe is a Nigerian writer and author of four novels. She earned a PhD from the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, for her dissertation entitled “In the Shadow of Ala: Igbo Women Writing as an Act of Righting”. Chika has received a number of awards for her writing, including the 2012 NLNG Prize for Literature, for her novel On Black Sisters’ Street. She is the recipient of a number of fellowships, including the 2014 Sylt Fellowship for African Writers. She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
All the things that did not kill Floyd: hypertension. opiods. heartbreak.lack of vitamin d. heart attack. narrowing of the heart. enlargement of the heart. covid.
What killed Floyd: a policeman's knee on his neck.
the system.
a man named chauvin.
#ChauvinTrial
“Resting comfortably “ on a pavement / as you die/ is how they see us/ black bodies can feel no pain/ and a man who calls for his dead mama / as life is taken from him/ is perhaps merely singing comfortably too #ChauvinTrial
Link for watching the documentary https://t.co/tceThsynfT #CentreForMemories @cfmemories https://t.co/fzzfDVUPvU
