It’s because she is beautiful, you know. That’s all it is. They don’t really care about the rest of it. She gets a pass at life. - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Writing for me is an act of discovery, I am learning about the characters even as I am writing them. In reality, we rarely know why people do the things they do. I think it is enough, sometimes, to simply point to something and allow the readers to reach their own conclusions.

Ayoola is draped across my bed in her pink lace bra and black lace thong. She is incapable of practical underwear. Her leg is dangling off one end, her arm dangling off the other. Hers is the body of a music video vixen, a scarlet woman, a succubus. It belies her angelic face.”

I know better than to take life directions from someone without a moral compass.