Flora Nwapa: Defying Reality
1 min readFeb 22, 2018
An Essay by Sheila Chukwulozie
“The ALA reading experience honestly helped me more than the ALA writing experience. It was through being exposed to the articulation of others and being engaged in discussion, that I discovered my questioning voice was stronger (and more relevant) than my didactic/judgemental voice.”
Sheila Chukwulozie is a Nigerian story maker & performer. After graduating from ALA with the class of 2012, she went on to Amherst College, Massachusetts to get a degree in Theater & Dance. Currently, she is wandering around Africa as a Watson Fellow, researching “magic” in cultures of Mask Making and Cloth Weaving. Email her at schukwulozie10@alaalumni.org.
