In this video for the African Speculative Fiction Society, ’Pemi Aguda reads an excerpt from her award-winning short story “Masquerade Season,” which appears in her debut collection, Ghostroots (Norton, 2024). Aguda is featured in “First Fiction 2024” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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