Gimba kakanda biography of abraham

The Writing University conducts is a series of interviews (the "5Q Interviews": five questions for all) with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. We sit down with authors to ask about their work, their process and their descriptions of home.

Today we are talking with Gimba Kakanda, a fiction writer, poet and journalist from Nigeria.

1. Do you have a plan or project in mind for your time at the residency?

Iowa is a timely answer to my prayer for a quiet. It’s a salvation from my busy schedules that make sitting to write, with my attention rapt, seems like unaffordable luxury. You see, I finished the first draft of a novel about five years ago, and then suddenly I became too busy to return to it. I live in Abuja now, the capital of Nigeria, and since my relocation from my hometown, Minna, I became more of an ever-running clock than the stop watch I used to be. I worked firs