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All Shades of Iberibe
In the Nigerian language Igbo iberibe means messed up. This stunning short story collection by Kasimma grabs readers and pulls them into the cities and villages of today’s Nigeria. Against the glare of smart phone screens, spirits of the dead flicker, elders admonish their grown children, rituals are done in secret, and the scars of war are just below the surface in the lives of astonishingly vivid characters. Kasimma’s stories effortlessly inhabit the dark, alluring, and beautiful spaces between mystical Nigerian traditions and our strange contemporary condition.
Portret Za Dar-mar
Croatian Translation
Kasimma powerfully, sovereignly and originally builds each story by reaching for the jargon of the Nigerian street, ordinary people, and scared and confused young women and men who naturally strive for love and trust, and in return receive hatred and disappointment. This collection of short stories represents a cutting edge of contemporary West African prose, which cuts deep into the registers of the unconscious and alludes both to the neuralgic points of the human character and to the prominent elevations on the language map that we try to reach in every attempt to communicate.
Kasimma’s stories effortlessly draw us into dark, seductive, and enchanting spaces where mystical Nigerian traditions and our most unusual modernity touch.