West Africa
Nigeria
Contemporary
English
Fiction
Ada is an ogbanje — a spirit child in Igbo cosmology — and her multiplicity of selves inhabit her body and narrate her life. A devastating examination of identity, trauma, and Nigerian spiritual belief.
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Emezi identifies as nonbinary and ogbanje; the novel brings Igbo cosmology into conversation with Western psychology in an unprecedented way
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editorial-summarynot primary textAda is an ogbanje — a spirit child in Igbo cosmology — and her multiplicity of selves inhabit her body and narrate her life. A devastating examination of identity, trauma, and Nigerian spiritual belief. Emezi identifies as nonbinary and ogbanje; the novel brings Igbo cosmology into conversation with Western psychology in an unprecedented way
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