We know that visiting a military dictator to seek pardon for a coup plotter is no small feat. Soyinka says the visit was your idea. Where did you get the courage?
All writing is speculative. No matter how grounded in history or current reality; even nonfiction requires a reimagining, a speculation on what we think we know. I sit comfortably with ‘speculative fiction’ as a way of seeing rather than a genre because it is impossible for me to divorce it from everyday life. Consider Harry …
