By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Embracing My Shadow: Growing up Lesbian in Nigeria by Unoma Azuah; Beaten Track Publishing; 2020; 218pp
It takes tremendous courage for a Nigerian woman to engage in an open love affair with another woman. The act of damning all consequences to write about lesbian love, even in fiction, is almost always coded. Unoma Azuah shatters the glass ceiling as it were by telling her story of growing up a lesbian in conservative Nigeria, a memoir like no other. It is a grand human story that casts aside all shadows.
Embracing My Shadow by Unoma Azuah remarkably sets up a scenic Garden of Eden in Nsukka where the sin is however between girl and girl, to wit, Unoma and her lover named Star, with the snake as the twist to the tale like in the book of Genesis in The Bible.
Unoma delves into her somewhat problematic parentage of a Tiv soldier father and an Igbo teacher mother forged in the throes and tragedy of the Nigeria- Biafra war. Unoma…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
