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‘The Death of Vivek Oji’ author on their writing process

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“I kept the book for its title, for how it was spelled,” muses Vivek Oji, the protagonist of Akwaeke Emezi’s latest novel, The Death of Vivek Oji. The title that bewitches Vivek is Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, and it secures his…