Damiete Braide
Jacqueline Agweh’s schedule is tight as a working class mother, but she remains dauntless in following her passion of creative writing. So far, she has these books to her credit: The Brown Family, A Place for Every Girl (2012), The Colour of My Tears (2014), and A Pelican of the Wilderness (2014). She admits, in this interview that the passion is the overriding factor in her creative enterprise. She speaks on the influence of the environment on her works, and the realistic angle of her writings.
At what point did you take to creative writing and what was the motivation behind it?
I started writing at 10, although writing was a family thing, because my father was a lecturer, and we were born in the midst of books. His office was full of books. Sometimes, after school, we would go to his office to wait for him to take us home after his lectures. While we were in his office, we would pick up books to read, and that was where I first saw and read a…
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