San Francisco, 7 October 2012. The audience perched on the edges of their seats, voices rising in collective, animated chatter. Then suddenly, joyful street music spilled through the second-floor windows of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), as though the city itself knew. Literary titan, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was in the house! Months of planning with MoAD and Litquake—the Bay Area’s largest literary festival—had led to this moment, and now, as I prepared to moderate, I felt a familiar tremor of excitement. The Nobel Prize for Literature would be announced within days. Could it, would it, finally be Ngũgĩ’s year?
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika [ Photo: Brittle Paper]
Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a British-Nigerian writer of novels, short stories and essays and an active member of the literary community, particularly supporting and amplifying young writers and female voices.
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