A to Z with deity Akwaeke Emezi
New York City: A In your debut novel, Freshwater, you write: ‘Many things begin with a name’. ‘Akwaeke’ means ‘python’s egg’ in Igbo. The first years of my existence, I was told it meant ‘precious’. Later I found out that it is called precious because the python is the physical manifestation…
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