· esidents of a certain London borough would have had the unknown pleasure of walking past Olumide Popoola taking her “character for a walk” whilst composing her novel When We Speak of Nothing. This, as with many other quirky and amusing anecdotes, Popoola shared with me over tea and cake on one of the last true sunny days of the British www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins. When We Speak of Nothing: www.doorway.ru: Popoola, Olumide: Books. Flip to back Flip to front. Listen Playing Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Learn more. See this image. Follow the author. Olumide Popoola. Similar authors to follow/5(20). When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola is a raw story about two best friends forming their identities in London and Port Harcourt, Nigeria. I enjoyed it and yet I didn't. This was in the Young Adult section of the library so perhaps it wasn't intended for me 😉/5(26).
Books When We Speak of Nothing (novel), Cassava Republic Press (US) When We Speak of Nothing (novel), Cassava Republic Press (UK and Nigeria) breach, Peirene Press (London), commission, co-authored short-story collection based on interviews with refugees in Calais, with Annie Holmes Also by mail (play script), edition assemblage (Münster) this is not about sadness. When We Speak of Nothing launches a powerful new voice onto the literary stage. The fluid prose, peppered with contemporary slang, captures what it means to be young, black and queer in London. If grime music were a novel, it would be this. London-based Nigerian-German Olumide Popoola is a writer, speaker and performer. When We Speak of Nothing, by Olumide Popoola, Cassava Republic Press, RRP£, pages Diana Evans's new novel, 'Ordinary People', will be published by Chatto in March Get alerts on.
esidents of a certain London borough would have had the unknown pleasure of walking past Olumide Popoola taking her “character for a walk” whilst composing her novel When We Speak of Nothing. This, as with many other quirky and amusing anecdotes, Popoola shared with me over tea and cake on one of the last true sunny days of the British summer. Olumide Popoola certainly doesn't attempt a definitive answer to this complex question or speak for all the youth involved, but her engaging and vibrant novel “When We Speak of Nothing” represents something of the younger generation who felt under-represented and unheard. The author writes: "When we speak of nothing we don't end the silence.". Her full-length novel When we Speak of Nothing was published in the UK and Nigeria in and in in the US (Cassava Republic Press). Her publications also include critical essays and creative non-fiction, hybrid pieces and poetry.
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