A Nigerian Roman Catholic priest, who appeared on the Opra Winfrey television show and won praise for his fictional accounts of the lives of children in Africa, says writing, like the priesthood, is a religious calling.
"If you want your congregation to listen, that's where you begin: stories," author Uwem Akpan said during a recent reading and discussion at New York's Inter-church Center.
Akpan said he has more control in writing fiction than in his work as a priest. In the priesthood, he added, "You have to work with the characters God has made."
For more information on this priest-writer, visit the Ecumenical News International (ENI) website.
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