Nigerian Writer Catherine Labiran Recites Her Powerful Prose On Culture(s) and Identity in “Questions” Poem.
Tracing and weaving through layers of culture and identity, what may seem like an interrogation of her experiences is more of a catalog of the things that have come to shape, define and inform the intermingled and distinct parts of this writer’s transnational life.
Read by the poet herself, every word is powerfully articulated with lines such as, “we are angels born in a time were blackness is stoned” and “my skin was the same colour of land and by walking barefoot on the earth I was embracing my soul”, leaping at you with clear-sounding defiance that resounds and resonates from start to finish.
About the poem, Catherine says that the series of questions “explore my identity and culture(s). I am Nigerian, I was born in New York, raised in London and now I am studying in the US. I have come to understand that my identity is complex, but the complexities are beautiful. This poem is a celebration of that!”
Catherine Labiran is a 21 year old Nigerian author and poet based in the United States.
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