Conversation with Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr

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Conversation with Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr

On writing a book about her mother, on language and its power, and motherhood.

Sasha Xiao

Feb 13, 2022

Dear Seekers,

I’m very excited to bring you the first episode of 2022. Today’s conversation is with Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr, a writer, teacher, and daughter of Dorothy Akunyili, a Pan-African hero who battled corruption and faced down misogyny in Nigeria.

In this conversation, Chidiogo shares her experience writing this part-autobiography, part memoir; she touches upon language and how each language we speak evokes different parts of our personalities and memories, and we also exchange thoughts on motherhood and healing, and how these two intersect and interwind.

This is a very rich conversation. I really hope you can join me to the end.

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During the thoughtful and intimate conversations, Sasha sits down with aspiring authors and artists to learn about how their art practice has been a healing and transcendent experience, and how they discover meaning, fulfillment and alignment. Our conversations are sometimes poetic and melancholic, sometimes existential and philosophical, but always spiritual.

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