![]() ![]() I’ve tried to show how burial customs, deaths, Christianity, colonization and superstitions have affected African/Igbo beliefs in the afterlife, reincarnation and haunting. I write mainly about Igbo ghost stories and my stories are set in Igboland, Old Biafra, in present day Nigeria. My books The Reluctant Dead (2014) and Unhallowed Graves (2015) have introduced this hitherto unknown genre into mainstream horror literary genre. Thanks to the South African Horror fest, the Nigerian Nollywood industry and my BBC World Service author interview amongst others, one can now find some references to African Horror as a bona-fide genre in online searches, albeit mainly in the movie category as against books. ![]() I’ve been championing the term as a bona-fide horror subgenre, just like Scandinavian, Korean, Japanese horror, etc, rather than a negative condition of the continent as mostly portrayed by the popular media. Re-defining the term, "African Horror", has been my passion as a writer. As noted, I write a horror subgenre I refer to as African horror. NUZO: Thanks for this question, which I must confess, no one has as yet asked and which I think is crucial to understanding my stories. Could you explain more about the genres and how they relate to both the perception of death and the grief process? Your work is said to be African Horror, which is reminiscent of the Japanese Kaidan tradition. She terms her work as an "unexplored genre" likening it to the Japanese Kaidan tradition. ![]()
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