I might need to re-read Pet now that I have this background information!īefore reading this, I felt like there was so much potential for this prequel. Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for an advanced copy of this to review! Pet is such a gorgeously crafted novel, I was excited to see more from this world. While Bitter is okay with staying safe inside the walls, her friends aren’t okay with settling for “just the way things are.” As Bitter tries to figure out a way to support the revolution safely, the creatures from her paintings might be able to help. Bitter’s friends are fighting for equality and freedom. Outside of Eucalyptus, the world is in chaos. And the more she tries to keep this secret, the closer it gets to being revealed. What she hasn’t told anyone is that she has the power to bring her paintings to life. A school specifically for creative teens and a place where she can focus on her painting.

BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia.

Lights, Camera, Africa!!! Film Festival, Lagos.

Fribourg International Film Festival, SwitzerlandĢ014 The Boda Boda Lounge Project (Addis + Bamako + Bulawayo + Cairo + Harare + Johannesburg + Kampala + Kinshasa + Luanda + Lubumbashi + Lagos + Santiago).

The New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival, London.

Analogue Eye-Mobile Drive-in Cinema, Vienna.NOW Cinema presents Films Supporting Home Affairs, London.50Golborne presents AFRO FUTURES IN MOTION with the Portobello Film Festival, London.SELECT FESTIVALS + SCREENINGS + PRESENTATIONSĢ021 Frieze Talks: Akwaeke Emezi & ruby onyinyechi amanze, Frieze New YorkĢ020 Cinetracts '20, Wexner Center For The ArtsĢ018 The Unblinding with Akwaeke Emezi and Allison Janae Hamilton, Gavin Browne's enterprise, NYCĢ017 New York African Film Festival, Film Society Lincoln Center, NYCĢ016 Transforming Provocations-Regime Change, Flaherty NYCĢ015 Transoceanic Visual Exchange (Barbados + Lagos + New Zealand) 1987 Umuahia, Nigeria Brooklyn, NYĢ017 Astraea Foundation Global Arts Fund, The UnblindingĢ014 BlackStar Film Festival, Best Short Experimental, UdudeaguĢ015 Design is the Personality of the Idea, Lagos, Nigeria (Group Exhibition)Ģ015 ALULU/ASUSU UDUDEAGU, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, USA

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