Hawa Jande Golakai

Quotes

• “in anything that you do, you have to have a lot of determination and self-confidence. Always persevere, be honest with your work and always be ready to take criticism. Be diligent and basically send your work around as much as possible.”
• “I think usually a lot of African kids, if they have any artistic inclination, their parents tend not to really take it seriously because the market for artists won’t be serious. So you’re always told to have a degree in order to make a living out of it. So that was the same case with me, I never really took my writing seriously even though I have been writing since I was a kid”
• “So crime really is a cross cutting in any society, I don’t care where you live in this world. Crime is publicist and I think with the way the world is now, crime is becoming a fascination for the public”
• “So often the detective is a man and the woman is his lovely wife who the detective goes home to. We are just the background noise”
• “Science can be challenging but literature and art, that’s like home to me. I used to live in bookstores”
• “It never occurred to me in my mind as an African I could actually get published and be on the shelves like those people”

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