![]() I had someone ask me after I finished the novel, and they read it, and they were like, "Oh, so when I'm talking to you, which self am I talking to?" And I understood the question, because if - the way it's written in the book, it is that separate. I also have a clarity around just a multiplicity of being, I think. On how Emezi feels after writing the novel And with my work, I'm not really interested in trying to convince anyone to shift their center, I'm just refusing to shift mine. And that's how colonialism worked in great part - people came in and enforced a reality and said, "Well, if you believe in anything else, if you believe in your indigenous deities, if you believe in these spiritual entities, then you're ignorant and you're backwards, and it's only because you haven't been educated by the West." And you know, there's this everything that is outside the dominant reality becomes something that's pathological. I think part of the thing that's a problem, really, in the world today is this inability to acknowledge multiple realities, and this insistence that there has to be one dominant reality, and everything that falls outside that reality is false and untrue. I think everyone's centered in their own reality, you know. Fine Art MacArthur 'Genius' Paints Nigerian Childhood Alongside Her American Present ![]()
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