Books by Chikodili Emelumadu
“Chikodili is a Nigerian-British author and spent some of her life growing up in Nigeria. So this book is steeped in West African culture and spirituality, particularly Igbo culture. It’s a very vivid, sensory world full of pitfalls and possibilities. One of the things Chikodili does is play those two alongside each other very deftly.” Read more...
The Best Novels about Witches and Witch Hunts
Margaret Meyer, Novelist
Interviews where books by Chikodili Emelumadu were recommended
The Best Novels about Witches and Witch Hunts, recommended by Margaret Meyer
The figure of the witch recurs across cultures and time periods, and remains a source of fascination even today. Here, Margaret Meyer—author of The Witching Tide, an acclaimed historical novel inspired by a notorious English witch hunt—recommends five brilliant fiction books about witches, and explains how the witch serves as a symbol of female power in a patriarchal society.
