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Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda: No Be From Hia

March 28, 2021April 1, 2021cheekynativesLeave a Comment

‘My book was inspired by my multicultural background – Zambian, Nigerian, Jamaican and British. I wrote it at a time when I was processing the loss of both sets of grandparents, whom I had visited in Nigeria and in my Zambian village, Chinsali.’ Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda In a search for identity, love and acceptance two […]

Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021cheekynativesLeave a Comment

Cheeky Natives · Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half “The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a performance just the same.” Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of […]

Brandon Taylor and Paul Mendez: Real Life and Rainbow Milk

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020cheekynativesLeave a Comment

Cheeky Natives · Brandon Taylor and Paul Mendez: Real Life and Rainbow Milk “It was a cool evening in late summer when Wallace, his father dead for several weeks, decided that he would meet his friends at the pier after all.” – Brandon Taylor “Jesse’s alarm went off at seven, but he’d barely slept. He […]

Lockdown Edition with Abi Daré: The Girl with the Louding Voice

September 13, 2020September 13, 2020cheekynativesLeave a Comment

Cheeky Natives · Lockdown Edition with Abi Daré: The Girl with the Louding Voice (Part 1) Cheeky Natives · Lockdown Edition with Abi Daré: The Girl with the Louding Voice (Part 2) Abi Daré grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and has lived in the UK for eighteen years. She studied law at the University of […]

Nana Kwame Adjei-Breyah: Friday Black

August 7, 2020August 16, 2020cheekynativesLeave a Comment

At the Open Book Festival, held in Cape Town in 2019, The Cheeky Natives sat down with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah to discuss his debut collection of short stories, Friday Black. This New York Times’ Best seller explores the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities of life in the US. These stories tackle urgent instances of racism […]

The Finalists for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards

March 17, 2020March 17, 2020cheekynativesLeave a Comment

This year OprahMag.com exclusively announced the finalists of the 32nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda has for 30 years honoured the LGBTQ community’s longstanding contribution to literature. This year’s nominees include some of our favourite writers at The Cheeky Natives. Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Patsy has been shortlisted for Lesbian fiction. We featured Nicole discussing this book […]