Penumbras

“This work is ultimately a mourning song. It is a desperate attempt to link myself to a nonliterature past where the preservation of knowledge (and ultimately self-preservation) was dependent on ritual and performance. It is an invitation to engage the soul. In its formation, I wondered if perhaps the only real blackness is the blues—that delicate thread connecting me between two dark continents under an unblinking white gaze.” – Chioma Ebinama