And it all seems to have come full circle. The town of Onitsha which was popular for market literature has caught the Nollywood bug. The most popular address on any movie jacket is 51 Iweka Road, Onitsha.
Well, the manuscript, basically, after I wrote it… as I said, I was doing it for myself… my husband, my daughter who was fourteen at the time, read it and they encouraged me to pursue it further, they said carry on. I thought they were not being objective, obviously.
A dozen black women from various Chicago neighborhoods gathered Feb. 18 on the West Side to celebrate a literary foremother...
