A. Igoni Barrett
Born
in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
March 26, 1979
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Blackass
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published
2015
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13 editions
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Love Is Power, or Something Like That: Stories
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published
2013
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11 editions
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Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara
by
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published
2014
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13 editions
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Nigeria
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Maailma novell
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Blackass (Excerpt)
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From Caves of Rotten Teeth
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published
2010
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4 editions
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9 Stories on the Magic of Cities
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published
2018
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Blackass
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Whyteface: A Novel
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“No one asks to be born, to be black or white or any color in between and yet the identity a person is born into becomes the hardest to explain to the world”
― Blackass
― Blackass
“Womanhood comes with its peculiar burdens, among them the constant reminder of a subordinate status whose dominant symptom was uninvited sexual attention from men”
― Blackass
― Blackass
“One of the reasons I will never leave Nigeria is because, in this country, anything can happen.”
― Blackass
― Blackass
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