Myth and Metaphor in “Walking on Cowrie Shells” – Chicago Review of Books

Myth and Metaphor in “Walking on Cowrie Shells” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The final story of Nana Nkweti’s debut short story collection, “Kinks,” bears the book title in a telling passage:  “No matter how many boardroom doors Jennifer walked through, sometimes she felt her steps falter—in the Ghanaian beauty shop, at Awing tribal meetings, she felt like a counterfeit African, felt the unworthiness of the maid’s … Read more