Okezie Nwọka was born and raised in Washington, D.C. They are a graduate of Brown University, and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop as a Dean Graduate Research Fellow. They are presently teaching and living in their hometown.
Nwọka's debut novel is God of Mercy.
At Electric Lit they tagged seven "books by African writers about the legacy of colonialism on their homelands." One title on the list:
Butterfly Burning by Yvonne VeraRead about the other entries on the list.
This beautiful novel is set in 1940s Bulawayo (a city in then Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe) and follows the story of Phephelaphi Dube, a young woman who falls in love and ends up in troubling relationship. This novel is written in verse with most of its lines feeling like works of poetry. This book explores the nature of city life during Zimbabwe’s colonial era and is unrelenting in its exposition of the main characters.
--Marshal Zeringue
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