5 Favourites, Elizabeth Akinbamiyorin

This week we welcome Elizabeth Akinbamiyorin! Elizabeth is a podcaster and avid reader from Nigeria. She has a podcast called Barefoot Questions, which airs every Sunday on Spotify. She also writes essays on her Substack and on her blog. Her essays explore how reading is the art of collective remembering and how literature can mediate themes like identity and belonging.

Here are her 5 Favourites:

1. The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
2. There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe
3. Selected Poems by Wole Soyinka
4. Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono
5. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo