We Deserve Our Own African Epic Fantasies ft. Ponle Oluwole

What if Yoruba mythology got the epic fantasy treatment?

Ponle Oluwole joins us to talk about Àyànmọ́: Ìbẹ̀rẹ̀, his Yoruba-inspired fantasy novel, and why he wanted to create the kind of expansive African fantasy story he wished he had growing up.

We get into Yoruba mythology, the way African spirituality has been demonized and misunderstood, and what it means to see your culture treated as something epic, complex, and worth preserving. Plus, Ponle gets personal about identity, language, and raising his daughter in the diaspora.

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