FRESHWATER: AKWAEKE EMEZI

The marbled room is a wondrous and mystical place. This is where we find our brothersisters, our deeper and splintered selves. Freshwater took me to heights beyond the gravitational restrictions of the human form. It took me to the very essence of being.

Ada’s journey brought me to question the who I am. The who you see in me is the conqueror, the victor- who has suppressed, dominated, coaxed and shielded my quieter, reluctant forms. What you do not see is my multiplicity, the variants which reside in this pearly shell of my human frame. Circumstances and necessity draw out our appropriate and better equipped self.

Emezi has managed by some extraordinary alchemy released the restrictions of physicality to recolour the definition of the mortal and the immortal space. It’s magical, it’s spiritual, it’s real, it’s unreal, it speaks of now and forever. It just is. Emezi is a literary sensation, the kind that comes once in a Toni Morrison.

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