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A. Igoni Barrett


Born
in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
March 26, 1979

Genre
Fiction


Adrian Igoni Barrett was a winner of the BBC World Service short story competition for 2005. His first book, a collection of short stories entitled From Caves of Rotten Teeth, was first published in 2005 and reissued in 2008. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature.

His father is the Jamaican poet and novelist Lindsay Barrett.

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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”
― A. Igoni Barrett, Blackass
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“Womanhood comes with its peculiar burdens, among them the constant reminder of a subordinate status whose dominant symptom was uninvited sexual attention from men”
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“One of the reasons I will never leave Nigeria is because, in this country, anything can happen.”
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