Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim in 2015

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and journalist.

Quotes

Season of Crimson Blossoms (2015)

• He always smiled at their jokes. But, that morning, he was not smiling. His face, made fierce by war paint, glistened with sweat and odium as he raised his machete and brought it down. Bright, red blood, warm and sticky, splashed across Faiza’s face and dotted, in a fine spray, the shell-pink nightdress that her father had bought her.
  • Page 84

• Binta fiddled with her fingers. ‘My husband, God rest his soul, was killed by some Christian boys he employed. They were people he called by their birth names and did business with. My sister’s husband and her son were hacked to death by their Christian neighbours because a woman urged them to.”
  • Page 271

• "I wanted to write about Jos in a way Jos has not been written about. I didn't want to talk about the conflict, the killings. I wanted to talk about how these things happened, how people are still living with it and how it is affecting their lives now, years after they happened."
  • On writing about Jos beyond violence

• "I wanted to capture the unacknowledged trauma we are facing in this country because technically speaking, almost every Nigerian is traumatised."
  • Speaking on trauma in Nigerian society

• "The publishing houses are supposed to ensure that quality works are the ones that come out of the process. They are the gatekeepers; they determine the standard in a way."
  • On the role of publishers

• "We don't have enough quality publishing houses."
  • Speaking on the challenges of publishing in Nigeria

• "One thing that is certain is that all dreams, grand or modest, need believers."
  • Acceptance speech after winning the 2016 Nigeria Prize for Literature

• "The greatest triumph today is the light of belief I have seen kindled in the floundering hearts of those who previously thought there was a glass ceiling over their heads because of their background, because of the sounds of their names or what part of the world they come from."
  • Acceptance speech after winning the 2016 Nigeria Prize for Literature

• "If you believe, the only thing stopping you from accomplishing your goals is you and no one else."
  • Encouraging young writers and dreamers

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