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Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
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“I like to think of my writing as an expression of love for the African people, a commitment to our capacity for justice and liberty, an insistence on dreaming our freedom as an inevitable eventuality. I want to be an incendiary bomb. And I know that stories have that power.”
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (born 2000) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing the purpose of his writing. Writers Have the Obligation of Imagining the Future That Must Be Achieved, The Republic, 11 May 2025.
“I wrote And Then He Sang a Lullaby while doing an internship. I was working for a hospital in Port Harcourt as a laboratory assistant.”
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (born 2000) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Explaining the circumstances in which he wrote his debut novel. Writers Have the Obligation of Imagining the Future That Must Be Achieved, The Republic, 11 May 2025.
“My queer activism in university came with a steeper cost than I had stopped to take account of. I was mocked openly, mobbed twice by cultists and threatened too many times to count.”
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (born 2000) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reflecting on the personal cost of his activism while at university. Writers Have the Obligation of Imagining the Future That Must Be Achieved, The Republic, 11 May 2025.
“One feedback that I enjoyed though found surprising was that And Then He Sang a Lullaby was so Nigerian. So 'unapologetically Nigerian' one reviewer put it. That is the biggest compliment I could get.”
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (born 2000) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On readers' responses to his debut novel. Writers Have the Obligation of Imagining the Future That Must Be Achieved, The Republic, 11 May 2025.
“Queer liberation is the only sustainable solution.”
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (born 2000) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On queer rights and activism. Queer liberation is the only sustainable solution: A conversation with Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, Shado Magazine, 12 August 2023.
“By the time I started working on And Then He Sang a Lullaby in August 2018, I had already been a queer activist for about three years and had suffered a lot of repercussions for it.”
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (born 2000) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing the experiences that shaped his debut novel. A Short Talk With Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, A Long House, 28 June 2025.