Emilia Asim-Ita: The Woman Who Held The Torch For Young Nigerian Writers And The World She Made Small
The theme of this piece is Emilia Asim-Ita. So, I would go through several timelines with some memories. If anyone had informed me that the writer’s block which I had been experiencing from the third week in December 2020 till Friday, January 29, 2021 would be unblocked and blown to smithereens by the news of the demise of Emilia Asim-Ita, I would not have found such futuristic revelation comforting, I would have shut it down and discarded it for numerous reasons (some of which I would highlight here). x It would have been roundly rejected. But here I am,...