Akwaeke Emezi awakened him eyessprungwide no small feat 

                                                                       with Freshwater

she shared her book with him and within all her characters gods and goddesses  she introducing him to Igbo Africa religion mythology 

                   Ala python mother ogbanjes spirits “children who come and go”

she conceived a beautiful exotic compound object two ogbanje  “. . . wrapped up in a strip of human hide” an iyi-uwa an object binding the spirit of a dead child to the world 

its unknowing keeper is a little girl Ada who had to be a girl because if a boy  itd kill him  boys arent made of the stuff girls are nor men of women     

when he realeyesed where Akwaeke Emezi had taken him he began Freshwater over reading it out loud 

                                                                                                                he had neglected to share it with his mother whod love it  reading it aloud he was sure shed hear 

                                                                                               wherever she was 

   “. . . stuffed a god into a bag of skin”   couldnt possibly be more succinct

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