Sefi Atta
Sefi Atta is a Nigerian writer. Her first novel Everything Good Will Come was awarded the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature. Her next novel Swallow and short story collection Lawless will be published in May 2008 by Farafina Books, Nigeria. For more information about the books and Sefi Atta, visit Sefi Atta
Entries by this Author
One or the Other - An Article by Sefi Atta
- By Sefi Atta
- Published May 9, 2008
- Miscellaneous
- Unrated
I used to think that I was blessed to grow up in a family where I could celebrate both Christian and Moslem holidays and considered myself fortunate to have been spared the burden of choosing between the two. However, I have been conflicted occasionally...
Everything Good Will Come - (an excerpt)
- By Sefi Atta
- Published June 30, 2005
- Fiction Bits
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"He had a bump on his forehead, an expression as if he were sniffing something bad. He pronounced his visions between chants that sounded like the Yoruba words for butterfly, dung beetle and turkey: labalaba, yimiyimi, tolotolo. He smelled of incense..."