When did you first start writing?
I started writing in 2011, but Beyond Black is my first published book.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up in Nigeria, West Africa. Born into a middle class Western Nigerian family, I was raised to work hard, tell and do the truth, because that's what decent people do. I believed all that, still do, but began to notice that people advocate and ask for truth, yet do not expect or respect it. Dishonesty and institutional corruption became steadily rife. Nigeria, like most of Africa and some other so called third world {developing} countries, is rich and blessed with resourceful and resilient people, but plagued with thoughtless leadership. So I wrote Beyond Black to question status quo and get people thinking.
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