Woman Crush Wednesday: Karen King-Aribisala

Karen King-Aribisala is a Nigerian novelist, and short story writer.

Her stories, Our Wife and Other Stories won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Best First Book Africa, and her novel the hangman’s game won 2008 Best Book Africa.

She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Lagos. She won grants from the Ford Foundation, British Council, Goethe Institute, and the James Michener Foundation.

She has published several short stories in literary journals including Wasafiri, Presence Africaine, The Griot and Bim. Another one of her novels is “Kicking Tongues”, published in 1988, is a story which takes place in Nigeria where the abuse of power assumes many forms.

Karen King-Aribisala is our Woman Crush Wednesday for the energy and aura she puts into telling stories that  empower women, challenge patriarchy and the abuse of power.