Kasimma: 'Because I’m writing fiction, I can get away with anything'

Podcast: Fictionable · Fictionable

Opublikowano: 2025-11-13

We've already heard from Helon Habila and Caroline Clark in this Autumn series of podcasts, and we'll be rounding out the set with Ephameron in the next couple of weeks. But this time we welcome Kasimma and her short story Mama Taught Me That. This story is set in the 16th century. "We are not really sure what life was like then," Kasimma explains. "After colonisation, a lot of our culture was destroyed or merged with the beliefs of the colonisers, so that we don't really – in my opinion – have the original culture and...