A review by leahmarissafelton
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories by Nana Nkweti

5.0

WOW! This was an incredible book full of the most amazing short stories based on Cameroonian and American cultures.
Each short story is so vastly different from the next - a water goddess sacrificing her powers for a fisherman she falls in love with, a zombie apocalypse, a Cameroonian-American senior editor falling in love with one of her authors and having him mould her into what he things is truly authentic and African…

These stories are so powerful and eye opening to how there is no “one” African experience or characteristics in novels today.

What a debut novel from Nana Nkweti!