The Ashes Have Their Own Stories

Name: The Ashes Have Their Own Stories
SKU: 67011
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₦6,000.00

The Ashes Have Their Own Stories is a book about love, intimacy, heartbreak, femininity, loss, trauma, healing and the many ways this country has tried us. It faithfully explores these themes with a personal and social supply of experiential gravity that fishes out heavy stories from dark lonely corners. It is the New and Old Testament of Ayomide Fasedu making the transition from heavy to light, as she attempts to make a stable sense of a harsh lived experience for herself and others.

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Brief Profile of the Author

Ayomide Fasedu is a Nigerian performance poet. She was born and raised in Lagos and has performed on many stages. She was a finalist at The Lagos International Poetry Festival, Winner of and winner of Felicity 2.0 in 2021. She also emerged as the best performer at Kulture Fest back in 2018 and she won Wordaholics poetry slam twice in a row. Her writing is centred around women. She draws her inspiration from love and chaos; everything between fairytales and harsh realities. She engages with a variety of themes comprising love, heartbreak, trauma, loss, healing, femininity, and Nigerianism. When she is not writing or performing poetry, she is making frozen yoghurt in her kitchen or creating amazing music. She was featured on the most recent Black Magic album, ‘The invitation’. The Ashes Have Their Own Stories (shortened as TATHOS for ease) is her first poetry collection.