Sanya Noel, Author at Enkare Review

On Not Fitting In: An Interview with Yemisi Aribisala

Sanya Noel

Yemisi Aribisala has written about Nigerian food, feminism, and Nigerian Christianity in different spaces, one being the Chimurenga Chronic and the now defunct 234NEXT. In the introduction to her first collection of essays, Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds, Aribisala writes:
“I tell people that the world has not met Nigerian food. They are immediately incredulous, protesting without giving the idea a chance, afraid that they will turn up at the meet and no one will be there, no one of significance anyway.”
At the time of this interview, Enkare Review could not send Sanya Noel over to Sommerset, Capetown, to conduct it. The conversation therefore took place between Sanya in Nairobi and Yemisi Aribisala in Somerset, Cape Town via email.

Regarding Literary Magazines: An Interview with David Remnick

Sanya Noel

David Remnick has been the chief editor of The New Yorker since 1998. He joined the magazine as a staff writer in 1992 having spent ten years at the Washington Post as a reporter. Remnick has also published six books, most recently, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (New York: Knopf, 2010.) His 1993 book, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994.
Besides being the chief ed. at the New Yorker, Remnick continues to produce a significant amount of articles and essays for the magazine. Enkare Review got interested in interviewing Remnick for two reasons: how he manages The New Yorker and how he keeps writing with such a high profile job. This interview took place via email between Sanya Noel in the hot, dusty Nairobi and David Remnick in the cold Manhattan borough of New York.