Esta escritora nigeriana describe su iniciación temprana en la narrativa, y cómo llegó a descubrir que su propia escritura estaba completamente colonizada por discursos literarios y pautas culturales procedentes del Norte. Consciente de dichas influencias dominantes pero ajenas, comenzó a desarrollar su propia voz como escritora africana. ** This Nigerian author describes her initiation as a very young writer, and how she came to realize that her own narrative had been completely colonized by literary discourses and cultural norms from the North. Aware of these dominant yet foreign influences, she set out to develop her own voice as an African woman writer.