About Me — Uzoma Okafor

Trying to write my heart out

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I remember the first time words struck a chord in my heart. I was eleven years old and had just moved to a new school, and one of the required textbooks was a book titled Anthology of West African Poems. The moment I read the first poem, my mind was blown.

My name is Uzoma (pronounced as read). It’s a Nigerian name, specifically Igbo (one of the…