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Arinze Ifeakandu
Arinze Ifeakandu was born in Kano, Nigeria in 1995. He is a Nigeria writer who has interest in writing about love.

Early life and education
Arinze Ifeakandu was born in Kano, Nigeria and studied English at the University of Nigeria, Nsuka, between 2012 and 2016. He has served at various popints as custodian of The Writer's community, editor of [[The Muse}}, a journal of the English department, and an often - harried choir Librarian and also class rep. In 2013, he attended the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop where he was tought by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Works
Arinze Ifeakandu has a new short story in one magazine's issue 256 titled "The Dreamer's Litany" which explores a volatile's relationship between a Hausa man and an Igbo man in a Northern Nigerian City. His first published story, "God's Children Are Little Broken Things", won him a 2015 Emerging Writer Fellowship from a public space and was also shortlisted for the Caine Prize and the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction. Ifeakandu is the founder and editor-in-chief of Nigeria's first LGBTQ collective 14. He said he wrote this book to fill a void in himself. I quote "Everywhere I lokked, people my age were falling in love: in the street, on TV, in novels. But non of those loves resembled the one I dreamed of, beautiful as they were to behold. I wanted a boy to hold my hand and pull me into his chest and say sweet words to me. I wanted to see it on TV, too, to feel the rush of that particular fantasy, but there was nothing like that, and so I wrote about boys loving boys and read the story and felt satisfied".

Awards and Honours

 * 2018: Writer Richard Yates short story contest at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
 * 2017: The Cain Prize for African Writing shortlist.
 * 2017: Brittle Paper Fiction Award Nominee.
 * 2015: A public Space Emerging Writer fellowship.
 * 2015: BN Poetry Award shortlist.