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On her part, Maryam Bukar ‘Alhanislam’ Hassan admitted to agreeing to host the event partly out of her admiration for the poetry collection, which she characterised as “sitting at the intersection of memory, politics, and identity,” as well as her close ties to Baba-Aminu, a longstanding family friend
On the surface, the book appears to be Abdullahi's story, but in telling his story, it becomes other people’s stories as well. “Nobody’s story has been as intricately connected with mine in the 20 years that this book covers as Senator Bukola Saraki’s… For most of the journey, I walked under his shadow… Therefore, readers will find that, to a large extent, this book is his story as well,” Abdullahi writes. But in a lot of ways, the book is more Saraki’s story than the memoirist claims.
We are honoured, and we are proud. This is what independent, Black-owned publishing is for - not as a corrective to the mainstream, but as a home. A place where a writer can debut at sixty. Where a story rooted in Black British life can be treated with the full literary ambition it deserves. We started in Abuja twenty years ago with passion and an unshakeable belief that African storytelling belonged to the world. Today, the world agrees.”
