Blessing Chidera Nnadozie

Blessing Chidera Nnadozie

I'm a writer based in Lagos, deeply interested in the human experience. I explore people, place, culture, and the quiet details of everyday life that often go unnoticed.

3 essays published

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Published Essays

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What the Rich Bury

What the Rich Bury Her name was Amarachi. I want to say that clearly, without softening it, without the kind of careful distance writers use when they are afraid of something. Her name was Amarachi, s…

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The Last Canoe Carver on Ikorodu Road

There is a man on the edge of Ikorodu who still speaks to wood. His name is Baba Rasheed, and most mornings you will find him beneath a rusted zinc roof, not far from the lagoon's edge, bent over a ho…

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When Pidgin Became Poetry

There is a sentence my uncle used to say whenever something surprised him. Not in English, not in Igbo, but in Pidgin, fast and sharp and perfectly timed. I could never translate it exactly. That was…