Caleb Ozovehe Ajinomoh was a finalist for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and has attended a residency at Art Omi, New York.
His work appears in The Masters Review, QZ, The Offing, Necessary Fiction, Adda, AFREADA, CircleShow, AWP Writers’ Chronicle, and the Goethe Institute anthology: Limbe to Lagos.
More at www.calebajinomoh.com.
Content by Caleb Ozovehe Ajinomoh
Interviews,
Wahala Visa: An Interview with Nkiacha Atemnkeng
I remember leaving the U.S. embassy feeling hurt, sad and very embarrassed after that first rejection, thinking how I’ll never go back there again. But I was also thinking about what James Baldwin once said: “Because you’ve been hurt, you decide to make your talent important.”
Field Notes,
Wahala Visa: On Nkiacha Atemnkeng’s Viral Publication and Encounters with Consular Officers
All the sacrifices he had made to earn invitations to reputable artist colonies abroad, only to be rejected by a consular officer with glee. Nkiacha took the embassies’ collective declaration of his unfitness for travel as a writer and poured all his resilience into it.