Chidima Anekwe Chidima Anekwe is a writer living in New York. Her work can be found in The Iowa Review, Pleiades: Literature in Context, and elsewhere. She also edits fiction for Decolonial Passage.

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Chidima Anekwe

When I was a child, my father dissuaded my mother from speaking to me in our language, or I suppose their language. He said it would make it harder for me to learn proper English. I’m not sure where he read or heard this, but my father often pulled ideas out of thin air and pretended they had been written about extensively by scholars.  Unsurprisingly, the emergence of the internet...