Sarah Ladipo Manyika
| Sarah Ladipo Manyika | |
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| Born |
7 March 1968 Nigeria[1][2] |
| Occupation | Professor of Literature at San Francisco State University |
| Ethnicity | Nigerian |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Education |
University of Birmingham University of Bordeaux University of California - Berkeley |
| Genres | essays, academic papers, book reviews, short stories |
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika (born 7 March 1968) is an Anglo-Nigerian writer.
Early life
Sarah Manyika was born and raised in Nigeria.[1][2] She has also lived in Kenya, France, and England. Her father is Nigerian and her mother is British.[3] Sarah inherited her maiden name (Ladipo) from her father who was born in Ibadan (South-West Nigeria) in the late 1930s. Her father met and married her mother in the UK in the late 1960s. Sarah spent much of her childhood in Lagos and the city of Jos in Plateau State.[2] As a young teenager, she lived for two years in Nairobi, Kenya, before her family moved to the UK.
Career
Manyika studied at the Universities of Birmingham (UK), Bordeaux (France), and Berkeley (California). She was married in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1994 and now divides her time between San Francisco (where she teaches literature at San Francisco State University), London and Harare.
Her writing includes published essays, academic papers, book reviews and short stories. Her short story "Mr Wonder" appeared in the 2008 collection Women Writing Zimbabwe.[4] Her first novel,[5] In Dependence, was published by Legend Press, London, in 2008,[6] and was chosen by the UK's largest bookstore chain as its featured book for Black History Month.[7] In 2009, In Dependence, was published by Cassava Republic,[8] a literary press based in Abuja, Nigeria, with a stable of authors that includes Teju Cole and Helon Habila.
Works
Novels
- In Dependence (Legend Press, 2008; Cassava Republic, 2009)
- Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (Cassava Republic, 2016, ISBN 978-1-911-11504-5)
Short stories
- "Mr Wonder" in Women Writing Zimbabwe (Weaver Press, 2008)
- "Modupe" in African Love Stories (Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd, 2006)
- "Girlfriend" in Fathers & Daughters (Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd, 2008)
Book chapters
- "Oyinbo" in Prolematizing Blackness (Routledge, 2003)
Essays
- "Coming of Age in the Time of the Hoodie", Guernica, 23 June 2015.
- "Betting on Africa", Brittle Paper, 28 March 2016.
Research reports
- Ph.D. Programs in African Universities: Current Status and Future Prospects. Report to the Rockefeller Foundation. Co-authored with David Szanton (University of Berkeley, California, 2002).
References
- 1 2 "Sarah Ladipo Manyika". Ohio State University Library. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- 1 2 3 "My Life, My Writings". PM News (Nigeria). 26 March 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ Vanessa Okwara (3 August 2014). "My style is simple and chic - Sarah Ladipo Manyika". New Telegraph. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ "It's all women, passion and skill in Weaver Press's latest anthology". The Zimbabwean. 26 August 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
- ↑ "Legend Press sign San Francisco-based author Sarah Ladipo Manyika". Free Press Release. 4 June 2008.
- ↑ Obi Nwankanam (15 February 2009). "Sarah Manyika’s in dependence". Vanguard (Nigeria). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2009.
- ↑ "Sarah Ladipo Manyika". African Writing (9). Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ↑ In Dependence page, Cassava Republic.
External links
- Official Website
- Listen aloud to readings from In Dependence
- Introduction to Black History Month
- Review of In Dependence on the Catch a Vibe site
- Review of In Dependence by Andreas Martin Widmann.
- Sarah Ladipo Manyika interviewed by Nkrumah Bankong-Obi: "My Life, My Writings", PM News Nigeria, 26 March 2014.
- Ovo Adagha, "The Sarah Ladipo Manyika Interview", African Writing, No. 9.
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