I think there was an impulse in me to write women as centra… - Namwali Serpell

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I think there was an impulse in me to write women as central to the text. Part of that is my own limitations as a writer: being able to delineate the varieties of female experience is clearly easier for someone who’s lived as a woman, and projecting myself into male characters is harder for me. It’s something I have to really work on…

Namwali Serpell

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Namwali Serpell (born 1980) is a Zambian writer who teaches in the United States.

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Alternative Names: Carla Namwali Serpell • C. Namwali Serpell • C. N. Serpell • N. Serpell • Serpell, Carla Namwali • Serpell, C. Namwali • Serpell, Namwali

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…partly because I’m perceived as black…the idea I could look at my mother and say to her that I’m not black makes no sense. To me, blackness is just part of what the family is.

Now, as her baby wept for hunger and as she herself wept distractedly - weeping was just what she did now, who she was - Matha felt that dawning shock that comes when you look at yourself and see a person you once might have pitied

They were not kings. The empire was a frikkin sham. They were colonialists, and for that you only need brute force – nothing to boast of when you have it. Power’s just an accident that depends on the weakness of others.

I think there was an impulse in me to write women as central to the text. Part of that is my own limitations as a writer: being able to delineate the… - Namwali Serpell

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