As an individual I’m attracted to strong female characters – my characters have always been people who own themselves. Even if they’re strongly doing… - Oyinkan Braithwaite

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As an individual I’m attracted to strong female characters – my characters have always been people who own themselves. Even if they’re strongly doing something wrong, they’ve always been powerful people.

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About Oyinkan Braithwaite

Oyinkan Braithwaite (born 1988) is a Nigerian-UK novelist and writer. Braithwaite was born in Lagos in 1988. She spent most of her childhood in the UK after her family moved to Southgate in north London. She had her primary school education in London then returned to Lagos when her brother was born in 2001. She studied law and creative writing at Surrey University and Kingston University before moving back to Lagos in 2012.

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We have a wide divide between classes and we have a wide divide between cultures because we’re from different tribes, we have different religions. You don’t have to walk very far to see someone who has a really different life from you...I wouldn’t want to write a novel and people feel that I’m speaking to a Nigerian experience – I’m speaking to my experience, to the things I’m interested in, and that’s all I can do.

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